Report on Review of Allocations of Costs of the Multiple-purpose Water Control System in the Tennessee River Basin: As Determined by the Tennessee Valley Authority and Approved by the President Under the Provisions of the TVA Act of 1933, as AmendedFederal Power Commission, 1949 - 46 pages |
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75th Congress acre feet agencies alternative navigation system alternative single-purpose alternative system annual navigation benefits barge basis Chattanooga Chief of Engineers Congress constructed Corps of Engineers drainage basin estimate of annual estimated annual costs estimated costs estimates of flood expenditures Federal Power Commission flood control benefits flood control system flood damage flood storage capacity Fort Loudoun Dam Guntersville Hales Bar Hiwassee Hiwassee River interest rate joint costs justifiable Kentucky kilowatts Knoxville levee system locks Loudoun lower Ohio malaria control miles Mississippi Rivers multiple-purpose projects multiple-purpose reservoir system multiple-purpose system multiple-purpose water control navigation facilities November 18 Number Ohio and Mississippi Ohio River operation and maintenance Paducah percent Pickwick power system purposes Recreational Boating reservoir projects shippers system of reservoirs Tennessee River Basin Tennessee Valley Authority tonnage tons transportation savings Treasury tributaries TVA estimate TVA reservoirs TVA system TVA's water control projects waterway Watts Bar Wheeler Wilson Dam
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Page 5 - Authority— a corporation clothed with the power of government but possessed of the flexibility and initiative of a private enterprise. It should be charged with the broadest duty of planning for the proper use, conservation and development of the natural resources of the Tennessee River drainage basin and its adjoining territory for the general social and economic welfare of the nation.
Page 5 - Congress, to make such surveys of and general plans for said Tennessee basin and adjoining territory as may be useful to the Congress and to the several States in guiding and controlling the extent, sequence, and nature of development that may be equitably and economically advanced through the expenditure of public funds, or through the guidance or control of public authority, all for the general purpose of fostering an orderly and proper physical, economic, and social development...
Page 6 - ... (1) the maximum amount of flood control; (2) the maximum development of said Tennessee River for navigation purposes; (3) the maximum generation of electric power consistent with flood control and navigation; (4) the proper use of marginal lands; (5) the proper method of reforestation of all lands in said drainage basin suitable for reforestation; and (6) the economic and social well-being of the people living in said river basin.
Page 16 - Hereafter, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to prescribe regulations for the use of storage allocated for flood control or navigation...
Page 4 - Shall have power to construct such dams, and reservoirs, in the Tennessee River and its tributaries, as in conjunction with Wilson Dam, and Norris, Wheeler, and Pickwick Landing Dams, now under construction, will provide a nine-foot channel in the said river and maintain a water supply for the same, from Knoxville to its mouth...
Page 4 - The board shall make a thorough investigation as to the present value of Dam Numbered 2, and the steam plants at nitrate plant numbered 1, and, nitrate plant numbered 2, and as to the cost of Cove Creek Dam, for the purpose of ascertaining how much of the...
Page 4 - The Board is hereby directed in the operation of any dam or .'.'«'. :,- . reservoir in its possession and control to regulate the stream flow primarily for the purposes of promoting navigation and controlling floods.
Page 5 - River drainage basin and of such adjoining territory as may be related to or materially affected by the development consequent to this act, and to provide for the general welfare of the citizens of said areas, the President is hereby authorized, by such means or methods as he may deem proper within the limits of appropriations made therefor by Congress, to make such surveys of and general plans for said Tennessee Basin and...
Page 5 - The President shall, from time to time, as the work provided for in the preceding section progresses, recommend to Congress such legislation as he deems proper to carry out the general purposes stated in said section...
Page 4 - In like manner, the cost and book value of any dams, steam plants, or other similar improvements hereafter constructed and turned over to said Board for the purpose of control and management shall be ascertained and allocated.