Public Works Appropriations for 1957: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session ... Testimony of Members of Congress, Interested Organizations, and Individuals ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1956 - Public works |
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Page 695 - Interior, who shall transmit and dispose of such power and energy in such manner as to encourage the most widespread use thereof at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles, the rate schedules to become effective upon confirmation and approval by the Federal Power Commission.
Page 759 - Rate schedules shall be drawn having regard to the recovery (upon the basis of the application of such rate schedules to the capacity of the electric facilities of the projects) of the cost of producing and transmitting such electric energy, including the amortization of the capital investment allocated to power over a reasonable period of years.
Page 693 - The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, from funds to be appropriated by the Congress, to construct or acquire, by purchase or other agreement, only such transmission lines and related facilities as may be necessary in order to make the power and energy generated at said projects available in wholesale quantities for sale on fair and reasonable terms and conditions to facilities owned by the Federal Government, public bodies, cooperatives, and privately owned companies.
Page 38 - President in the budget of the United States Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1969. The bill would authorize appropriations to be made to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the sum of $4,370,400,000, as follows: (1) for "Research and development...
Page 35 - The Joint Executive Committee for the Improvement and Development of the Philadelphia Port...
Page 689 - Territories, and subdivisions and agencies thereof, municipalities, peoples utility districts and cooperative, nonprofit, or limited-dividend associations organized under the laws of any State or Territory of the United States, for the purpose of financing the construction and operation of generating plants, electric transmission and distribution lines or systems for the furnishing of electric energy to persons in rural areas who are not receiving central station service: Provided, however, That...
Page 693 - Preference in the sale of such power and energy shall be given to public bodies and cooperatives. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, from funds to be appropriated by the Congress, to construct or acquire by purchase or other agreement, only such transmission lines and related facilities as may be necessary in order to make the power and energy generated at said...
Page 392 - That the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, created under Section 3 of the River and Harbor Act approved June 13, 1902, be, and is hereby requested to review the...
Page 435 - Subcommittees of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives...
Page 146 - Mr. Chairman and members of the committee, there is very little that I can add to what has already been said.