Niagara Power Development: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Rivers and Harbors of the Committee on Public Works, House of Representatives, Eighty-second Congress, First Session, on H.R. 1642--H.R. 3146-- (and) H.R. 5099--September 19-21, 1951 |
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additional water agency agreement amendments ANGELL BLATNIK BUCHANAN Bureau of Power BURTON Canada capacity Chairman Cole bill Colonel SCHULL committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY construction consumers cost cubic feet distribution diversion DONDERO electric service employees FALLON Federal Government Federal Power Act Federal Power Commission feet per second flood control gentleman Grass Island hydroelectric power industry International Joint Commission kilowatt-hour kilowatts LARCADE Lawrence seaway legislation Lewiston LIBRARY OF CONGRESS license MACHOLD MACHROWICZ MAGEE MCMAHON ment Miller bill Mohawk Power Corp municipal navigation Niagara Falls Niagara Mohawk Power Niagara power Niagara project Niagara redevelopment Niagara River operation percent power development power facilities power project power purposes private enterprise private utility project power proposed public power public service commission question rates referred Roosevelt bill safeguards scenic beauty SCUDDER Senator LEHMAN statement taxes Tennessee Valley Authority tion treaty United States side utility companies WARNE water power York Power Authority
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Page 1 - Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Arms Control and Disarmament Act Amendments in 1975".
Page 13 - Governments, recognizing their primary obligation to preserve and enhance the scenic beauty of the Niagara Falls and River, and consistent with that obligation, their common interest in providing for the most beneficial use of the waters of that River...
Page 139 - That such arrangement will be effective only after approval by the Congress of the United States and the Legislature of the State of New York.
Page 4 - ... to citizens of the United States, or to any association of such persons, or to any corporation organized under the laws of the United States, or of any State or Territory thereof, and in the case of coal, oil, oil shale, or gas, to municipalities...
Page 7 - ... to be prosecuted under the direction of the Secretary of the Army and supervision of the Chief of Engineers, in accordance with the...
Page 52 - States share of the waters of the Niagara River made available by the provisions of the treaty, and no project for redevelopment of the United States share of such waters shall be undertaken until it be specifically authorized by act of Congress.
Page 125 - Thus the power of Congress to promote the general welfare through large-scale projects for reclamation, irrigation, or other internal improvement, is now as clear and ample as its power to accomplish the same results indirectly through resort to strained interpretation of the power over navigation.
Page 7 - There are hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Page 151 - John E. Burton, chairman of the Power Authority of the State of New York.
Page 80 - States, and the counties therein, for each fiscal year, beginning July 1, 1940, the following percentages of the gross proceeds derived from the sale of power by the Corporation for the preceding fiscal year as hereinafter provided...