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and costs and of program progress toward achieving SBA goals.

SBA also analyzes the economic and social effects of its own activities, and prepares recommendations on longterm legislative requirements. The agency participates in the Government-wide Management by Objectives system, and develops short and long range plans relative to agency programs and resource requirements.

SBA carries out economic, cost/ benefit, and program evaluation studies of agency activities to provide the Administrator and program managers with assessments of current and proposed programs. It directs the development of new or revised size standards for defining small business in all industries, and provides staff aid to the Administrator by making economic evaluations and analyses of the impact on small businesses of legislative proposals and other public policy issues by preparing policy and management position papers and by conducting research bearing on policy matters.

Emphasis is placed on the application of economic analyses to the problem of allocating the agency's resources among its programs and field offices to obtain the maximum benefit to the small business community and achieve agency objectives.

SBA conducts economic and statistical research into matters affecting the competitive strength of small business. It conducts economic studies and evaluations with emphasis on current and future opportunities, problems, and needs of small business. It researches the effect of Federal laws, programs, and regulations on small business, and makes recommendations to Federal agencies for appropriate adjustments to meet the needs of small business.

The agency conducts studies which measure the general impact of air, water, and noise pollution abatement efforts on small business, as compared with its large business competitors. It studies the impact of our evolving national energy programs and of other regulatory programs, such as those dealing with the occupational health and safety of the American work force.

The Administration maintains liaison with universities and other groups conducting research and studying economic factors pertaining to small business, and furnishes economic and statistical information to aid them in carrying out those studies.

For further information, contact the Office of Public Information, Small Business Adminis tration, 1441 L Street NW., Washington, D.C. 20416. Phone, 202-653-6365.

TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY

400 Commerce Avenue, Knoxville, Tenn. 37902;

Woodward Building, Fifteenth and H Streets NW., Washington, D.C. 20444 1 Washington Phone, 202-343-4537

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General Counsel____.

Director of Environmental Planning-.

Director of Forestry, Fisheries, and Wildlife Development_
Director of Navigation Development and Regional
Studies

Director of Tributary Area Development_

Director of Water Management---

Manager of Agricultural and Chemical Development___
Manager of Engineering Design and Construction__
Manager of Power_____

HERBERT S. Sanger, JR.

PETER A. KRenkel.
THOMAS H. RIPLEY.

MINARD I. FOSTER.
H. PETER CLAUSSEN.
EDWARD H. LESESNE.
LEWIS B. NELSON.
GEORGE H. KIMMONS.
GODWIN WILLIAMS, JR.

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a Government-owned corporation. that conducts a unified program of resource development for the advancement of economic growth in the Tennessee Valley region. The Authority's program of activities includes flood control, navigation development, electric power production, fertilizer development, recreation improvement, and forestry and wildlife development. While its power program is financially self-supporting, other programs are financed primarily by appropriations from Congress.

The Tennessee Valley Authority is a corporation created by act of Congress on May 18, 1933 (48 Stat. 58; 16 U.S.C. 831-831dd). All functions of the Authority are vested in its Board of Directors, who are appointed by the President with the consent of the Senate. Offices of the Board and General Manager are in Knoxville, Tenn.

TVA is wholly owned by the U.S. Government. While its electric power program is required to be financially self-supporting, other programs are financed primarily by appropriations.

A system of dams built by TVA on the Tennessee River and its larger tributaries provides flood regulation on the Tennessee and contributes to regulation of the lower Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. The system maintains a continuous 9-foot-draft channel for navigation for the length of the 650-mile Tennessee River main stream, from Paducah, Ky., to Knoxville, Tenn. The dams harness the power of the rivers to produce electricity. They also provide other benefits, including a major asset for outdoor recreation.

TVA operates the river control system, and investigates the need for and feasibility of additional river control projects. It gives assistance to State and local governments in reducing lo

cal flood problems. It also works with cooperating agencies to encourage full and effective use of the navigable waterway by industry and commerce.

TVA is wholesale power supplier for 160 local municipal and cooperative electric systems serving 2.5 million customers in parts of seven States. It supplies power to several Federal installations and industries whose power requirements are large or unusual. Power to meet these demands is supplied from 29 dams, 12 coal-fired powerplants, 1 nuclear powerplant,

and 4 combustion turbine installations

operated by TVA, 8 U.S. Corps of Engineers dams in the Cumberland Valley, and 12 Aluminum Company of America dams whose operation is coordinated with the TVA system.

Projects now under construction by TVA include nuclear powerplants, a pumped-storage hydroelectric project, multiple-use reservoirs, and various pollution control and environmental

research facilities.

At Muscle Shoals, Ala., TVA operates a national laboratory for development of new and improved fertilizers and processes. Research results are made available to industry. Fertilizers produced in the demonstration facilities are distributed for use in research

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[For the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency statement of organization, see Code of Federal Regulations, Title 22, Part 601]

The United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency formulates and implements arms control and disarmament policies which will promote the national security of the United States and its relations with other countries. At present, to effectively carry out its responsibilities, it prepares and participates in discussions and negotiations with the Soviet Union and other countries on such issues as strategic arms limitations, mutual force reductions in Central Europe, preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to countries that do not now possess them, a prohibition on chemical weapons, and monitoring the flow of arms trade throughout the world.

Activities

The United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency was established on September 26, 1961, in response to congressional feeling that our country's arms control and disarmament policy could best be formed and carried out in a manner promoting the national security, by a central organization charged by law with primary responsibility for arms control and disarmament. The act creating the Agency (75 Stat. 631; 22 U.S.C. 2551) gives it a number of important responsibilities in the arms control field. The Agency conducts studies and provides advice relating to arms control and dis

armament policy formulation; prepares for and manages United States participation in international negotiations in the arms control and disarmament field; disseminates and coordinates public information about arms control and disarmament; and prepares for, operates, or as needed, directs U.S. participation in international control systems which may result from United States arms control or disarmament activities.

In addition to directing the Agency activities as described above, the Director functions as the principal adviser to the President, the National Security Council, and the Secretary of State in arms control and disarmament

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