Niagara Falls and Niagara River, N.Y. Hearings ... Aug. 21,22, 1951. S. 517, 1963, 20211951 - 260 pages |
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agency agreement America and Canada approved Army engineers benefit BUCHANAN Bureau of Power BURTON Canada canals capacity Chairman CHORPENING Colonel SCHULL Congress construction cooperatives Corps of Engineers cost cubic feet defense distribution estimate Federal Government Federal Power Act Federal Power Commission feet per second flood control hydroelectric power industry interest International Joint Commission Ives bill kilowatt-hour kilowatts Lawrence legislation Lehman bill license MACHOLD McWHORTER ment million mills Mohawk Power Corp Niagara Falls Niagara Mohawk Niagara Mohawk Power Niagara power Niagara project Niagara Redevelopment Niagara River operation plants power development power facilities power project power purposes preference President private enterprise project power proposed question rates remedial river for power safeguards scenic beauty Senator CAIN Senator CARLSON Senator DwORSHAK Senator IVES Senator LEHMAN Senator MCCLELLAN Seneca Nation statement taxes tion treaty tunnel union WICKARD York Power Authority
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Page 122 - 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 45 - Commission does urge the Congress of the United States and the President of the United States...
Page 57 - The Secretary of Defense has delegated to this Department the responsibility for expressing the views of the Department of Defense. The purpose of...
Page 9 - That the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, created under Section 3 of the River and Harbor Act approved June 13, 1902, be, and is hereby requested to review the...
Page 91 - ... to be utilized principally to secure a sufficiently high load factor and revenue returns which will permit domestic and rural use at the lowest possible rates and in such manner as to encourage increased domestic and rural use of electricity.
Page 64 - Governments, recognizing their primary obligation to preserve and enhance the scenic beauty of the Niagara Falls and River, and consistent with that obligation, their common interest in providing for the most beneficial use of the waters of that River...
Page 6 - ... to citizens of the United States, or to any association of such persons, or to any corporation organized under the laws of the United States, or of any State or Territory thereof, and in the case of coal, oil, oil shale, or gas, to municipalities...
Page 122 - Electric power and energy generated at reservoir projects under the control of the War Department and in the opinion of the Secretary of War not required in the operation of such projects shall be delivered to the Secretary of the 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...
Page 128 - There are hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be required to carry out the purposes of this Act. SEC. 14. As used in this Act: The terms "Colorado River Basin," "Colorado River Compact," "Colorado River System," "Lee Ferry," "States of the Upper Division," "Upper Basin,
Page 57 - PL 99 is under the direction of the Secretary of the Army and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers.