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... Tennessee Valley Authority and the proposals for the establishment of other like authorities . 7. The pressure of economic distress and unbalance in various agricultural - industrial areas of the United States , and the corresponding ...
... Tennessee Valley Authority and the proposals for the establishment of other like authorities . 7. The pressure of economic distress and unbalance in various agricultural - industrial areas of the United States , and the corresponding ...
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... Tennessee Valley Developments and Authority as an example of the Federal coopera- tion method of procedure in attacking interstate prob- lems . With the cooperation of the members of the Tennessee Valley Authority , both the technical ...
... Tennessee Valley Developments and Authority as an example of the Federal coopera- tion method of procedure in attacking interstate prob- lems . With the cooperation of the members of the Tennessee Valley Authority , both the technical ...
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... Tennessee Valley Authority , where several interrelated Federal functions center in the same region ; or an interstate authority where State powers are required to deal with a problem ex- tending over more than one State ; while for ...
... Tennessee Valley Authority , where several interrelated Federal functions center in the same region ; or an interstate authority where State powers are required to deal with a problem ex- tending over more than one State ; while for ...
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... Authorities Federal authorities of a regional - functional nature , of the general type of the Tennessee Valley Authority , should be given serious consideration as a means of dealing with types of subnational problems . It is clear ...
... Authorities Federal authorities of a regional - functional nature , of the general type of the Tennessee Valley Authority , should be given serious consideration as a means of dealing with types of subnational problems . It is clear ...
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... authority will be far easier and it would be pos- sible to progress much more rapidly . Aside from the special problems of the Tennessee Valley Authority , the Government - owned corporation offers many possibilities for dealing with ...
... authority will be far easier and it would be pos- sible to progress much more rapidly . Aside from the special problems of the Tennessee Valley Authority , the Government - owned corporation offers many possibilities for dealing with ...
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Page 116 - 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 60 - Act shall include water uses defined as "domestic" in said Colorado River compact. SEC. 13. (a) The Colorado River compact signed at Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 24, 1922, pursuant to Act of Congress approved August 19, 1921, entitled "An Act to permit a compact or agreement between the States of Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming respecting the disposition and apportionment of the waters of the Colorado River, and for other purposes...
Page 61 - I. The major purposes of this compact are to provide for the equitable division and apportionment of the use of the waters of the Colorado River System ; to establish the relative importance of different beneficial uses of water; to promote interstate comity; to remove causes of present and future controversies; and to secure the expeditious agricultural and industral development of the Colorado River Basin, the storage of its waters, and the protection of life and property from floods.
Page 62 - Lower Basin" means those parts of the States of Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah within and from which waters naturally drain into the Colorado River System below Lee Ferry, and also all parts of said States located without the drainage area of the Colorado River System which are now or shall hereafter be beneficially served by waters diverted from the System below Lee Ferry. (h) The term "domestic use...
Page 62 - If, as a matter of international comity, the United States of America shall hereafter recognize in the United States of Mexico any right to the use of any waters of the Colorado River System, such waters shall be supplied first from...
Page 65 - Inasmuch as the Colorado River has ceased to be navigable for commerce and the reservation of its waters for navigation would seriously limit the development of its Basin, the use of its waters for purposes of navigation shall be subservient to the uses of such waters for domestic, agricultural and power purposes.
Page 62 - There is hereby apportioned from the Colorado River System in perpetuity to the Upper Basin and to the Lower Basin, respectively, the exclusive beneficial consumptive use of 7,500,000 acre-feet of water per annum, which shall include all water necessary for the supply of any rights which may now exist.
Page 98 - To request the assistance and advice of any officer, agent, or employee of any executive department or of any independent office of the United States, to enable the Corporation the better to carry out its powers successfully...
Page 85 - Tennessee Valley Authority, a corporation clothed with the power of government but possessed of the flexibility and initiative of a private enterprise.
Page 44 - AN INTERSTATE COMPACT TO CONSERVE OIL AND GAS " 'ARTICLE I " 'This agreement may become effective within any compacting state at any time as prescribed by that state, and shall become effective within those states ratifying it whenever any three of the States of Texas, Oklahoma, California, Kansas, and New Mexico have ratified and Congress has given its consent. Any oil-producing state may become a party hereto as hereinafter provided. " 'ARTICLE II " 'The purpose of this compact is to conserve oil...