Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 1986: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, Part 8

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Page 5 - To Improve the navigability and to provide for the flood control of the Tennessee River; to provide for reforestation and the proper use of marginal lands In the Tennessee Valley; to provide for the agricultural and industrial development of said valley; to provide for the national defense by the creation of a corporation for the operation of Government properties at and near Muscle Shoals In the State of Alabama, and for other purposes.
Page 59 - NRECA can emulate nationally our effort to use rural electric cooperatives to stimulate economic development and job creation activities. In order to avoid duplication with other Federal and State efforts, we have in place or are working toward agreements with several agencies within the Department of Agriculture, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of State, the Department of Commerce, the Department of the Interior, the Department of the Army, the Appalachian Regional Commission,...
Page 39 - That no tolls or operating charges whatever shall be levied upon or collected from any vessel, dredge, or other water craft for passing through any lock, canal, canalized river, or other work for the use and benefit of navigation, now belonging to the United States or that may be hereafter acquired or constructed...
Page 39 - That the said rivers, when improved as aforesaid, shall remain forever free from toll for all property belonging to the government of the United States, and for all persons in their service, and for all the citizens of the United States, unless a toll shall be allowed by act of Congress.
Page 367 - The program will be administered to accommodate unmet financial needs of school districts related to the presence of large blocks of nontaxable Indian-owned property in the district and relatively large numbers of Indian children which create situations which local funds are inadequate to meet. This Federal assistance program shall be based on the need of the district for supplemental funds to maintain an adequate school after evidence of reasonable tax effort and receipt of all other aids to the...
Page 349 - THE OFFICE OF TERRITORIAL AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HAS ABRUPTLY SHUNNED ALL OF OUR REQUESTS FOR ASSISTANCE IN FUNDING THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE REQUIRED NEW TRANSMISSION LINES.
Page 325 - O'Neill Unit was approved by the Secretary of the Interior on June 17, 1965. The unit was authorized by the Reclamation Project Authorization Act of 1972, Public Law 92-514, on October 20, 1972.
Page 478 - That the Bureau of Reclamation under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior make all arrangements for the sale and distribution of electric energy generated at all hydroelectric developments hereafter constructed by any Federal agency within the basin as...
Page 395 - Thank you Mr. Chairman, for the opportunity to appear before you and the committee today to discuss the proposed fiscal year 1986 budget for the Bureau of Reclamation.
Page 329 - Dam in such manner as will produce the flood-control benefits upon which the monetary contribution is predicated, and such operation of the dam for flood control shall be in accordance with rules prescribed by the Secretary of the Army pursuant to the provisions of section 7 of the Flood Control Act of 1944 (58 Stat. 890...

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