Amending the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Public Works, United States Senate, Eightieth Congress, Second Session, on S. 1277 ...United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Flood Control: Rivers and Harbors U.S. Government Printing Office, 1948 - 863 pages |
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accounting agencies allocation amendment ammonium nitrate amount appropriations basis believe bill BOLT BRANNAN Bureau Chairman charge Chattanooga Chickamauga Dam CLAPP committee Congress conservation construction corporation cost dams Department of Agriculture directors electric engineers expenditures expenses facilities farm farmers fertilizer FINLEY fiscal flood control FLYNN funds HOWARD income interest investment June 30 kilowatt-hours land Lilienthal ment Mississippi MORGAN Muscle Shoals navigation Norris Dam Office paid PARKER payments percent phosphate plant present President production purposes question rates record regional Representative KEFAUVER revenues Senator COOPER Senator MALONE Senator MCCLELLAN Senator MCKELLAR Senator OVERTON soil statement subcommittee taxes Tennessee River Tennessee Valley Authority test demonstration testimony thing tion triple superphosphate TVA Act TVA's United States Senate utility Valley Authority Act Washington Wilson Dam
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Page 72 - ... purpose of bringing about in said Tennessee drainage basin and adjoining territory in conformity with said general purposes (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...
Page 281 - An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes", approved September 7, 1916, as amended, shall extend to persons given employment under the provisions of this Act.
Page 94 - To arrange with farmers and farm organizations for large-scale practical use of the new forms of fertilizers under conditions permitting an accurate measure of the economic return they produce.
Page 2 - The board shall without regard to the provisions of Civil Service laws applicable to officers and employees of the United States, appoint such managers, assistant managers, officers, employees, attorneys, and agents, as are necessary for the transaction of its business, fix their compensation, define their duties, require bonds of such of them as the board may designate, and provide a system of organization to fix responsibility and promote efficiency.
Page 279 - It is hereby declared to be the policy of this Act that, in order, as soon as practicable, to make the power projects self-supporting and self-liquidating, the surplus power shall be sold at rates which, in the opinion of the board, when applied to the normal capacity of the Authority's power facilities, will produce gross revenues in excess of the cost of production of said power...
Page 76 - Shall have such powers as may be necessary or appropriate for the exercise of the powers herein specifically conferred upon the Corporation.
Page 2 - Vacancies in the board so long as there shall be two members in office shall not impair the powers of the board to execute the functions of the Corporation, and two of the members in office shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of the business of the board.
Page 92 - In the appointment of officials and the selection of employees for said Corporation, and in the promotion of any such employees or officials, no political test or qualification shall be permitted or given consideration, but. all such appointments and promotions shall be given and made on the basis of merit and efficiency.
Page 95 - The Corporation shall be held to be an inhabitant and resident of the northern judicial district of Alabama within the meaning of the laws of the United States relating to the venue of civil suits.
Page 67 - States at the end of each calendar year, save and except such part of such proceeds as in the opinion of the board shall be necessary for the Corporation in the operation of dams and reservoirs, in conducting its business in generating, transmitting, and distributing electric energy and in manufacturing, selling, and distributing fertilizer and fertilizer ingredients.