Interior Department Appropriation Bill for 1947: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Seventy-ninth Congress, Second Session, on the Interior Department Appropriation Bill for 1947, Volume 3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946 |
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aluminum plant amortization appropriation Arkansas Power Army engineers ARNOLD authorized bill build built Chairman Chickasha co-ops committee CONGRESS THE LIBRARY construction cost DAVIS Denison Dam Douglas Wright duplication DWORSHAK Electric Cooperative expenses farm Federal Power Commission Flood Control Act Gas & Electric going Grand River Dam hydro hydroelectric industries interest Interior JENSEN JOHNSON of Oklahoma JONES KETELS kilowatt-hour kilowatts KIRWAN Lake Catherine LIBRARY OF CONGRESS load miles mills per kilowatt-hour MOSES municipalities Norfork Dam NORRELL Okla Oklahoma Gas operation Pensacola Dam percent Power & Light power and energy power companies private utilities projects proposed purchase question REA's record related facilities reservoir revenue ROONEY rural serve Southwest Power Southwestern Power Administration statement steam plants taxes Texas tion towns transmission lines utility companies VERNON WHITTINGTON WILKES WRIGHT
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Page 196 - 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 51 - ... 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 417 - 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 196 - Electric power and energy generated at reservoir projects under the control of the Department of the Army and, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Army, not required in the operation of such projects...
Page 180 - ... electric energy, including the amortization of the capital investment allocated to power over a reasonable period of years. Preference in the sale of such power and energy shall be given to public bodies and cooperatives.
Page 196 - Senators by a direct vote of the people; and that we urge our Senators and Representatives in Congress to use their best endeavors to secure such amendments.
Page 1 - OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, IN CHARGE OF THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATION BILL FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1947, ON THE FOLLOWING DAYS, NAMELY: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1946.
Page 106 - ... to war plants and establishments, public bodies and cooperatives, and other persons, in that order of preference, at such rates as may be approved by the Federal Power Commission.
Page 52 - ... contiguous with such projects. It shall be stipulated in connection with any sale that any and all savings realized by the purchasers shall be passed on, under Federal regulation where no State regulation exists, to the consuming public; Provided. That, unless 90...
Page 296 - They demonstrate that in operation of the dam the several functions will be interdependent and that the conflicts between the respective requirements of flood control and power development are here more apparent than real.