To Suspend the Jurisdiction of the Federal Power Commission to Issue Licenses on the Tennessee River Watershed: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry United States Senate Sixty-ninth Congress First Session on S.J. Res. 35 to Suspend the Jurisdiction, Power, and Authority of the Federal Power Commission to Issue Licenses on the Tennessee River and Its Tributaries Until the Congress Has Taken Final Action for the Control, Operation, Or Disposition of Dam No. 2 on Said River, at Muscle Shoals, ALA, January 11, 18, and 19, 1926 |
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Page 72 - That the project adopted, including the maps, plans, and specifications, shall be such as in the judgment of the Commission will be best adapted to a comprehensive plan for improving or developing a waterway or waterways for the use or benefit of interstate or foreign commerce, for the improvement and utilization of waterpower development, and for other beneficial public uses...
Page 61 - To issue preliminary permits for the purpose of enabling applicants for a license hereunder to secure the data and to perform the acts required by section 9...
Page 1 - State or municipality, for the purpose of constructing, operating, and maintaining dams, water conduits, reservoirs, power houses, transmission lines, or other project works necessary or convenient for the development and improvement of navigation, and for the development, transmission, and utilization of power...
Page 59 - States, shall at all times be controlled by such reasonable rules and regulations in the interest of navigation, including the control of the level of the pool caused by such dam or diversion structure as may be made from time to time by the Secretary of War.
Page 62 - Such maps, plans, specifications, and estimates of cost as may be required for a full understanding of the proposed project. Such maps, plans, and specifications when approved by the commission shall be made a part of the license; and thereafter no change shall be made in said maps, plans, or specifications until such changes shall have been approved and made a part of such license by the commission.
Page 41 - Is authorized and empowered, inter alia, to issue licenses for the purpose of constructing, operating, and maintaining dams, water conduits, reservoirs, power houses, transmission lines, or other project works necessary or convenient for the development, transmission, and utilization of power across, along, from, or in any of the navigable waters of the United States...
Page 62 - The permittee shall keep accurate and sufficient record of the foregoing determinations to the satisfaction of the Commission, shall make return of such records at the time of filing application for license and at such other times as the Commission may require, and in such form as the Commission may prescribe.
Page 63 - That all licenses issued under this Act shall be on the following conditions: (a) That the project adopted, including the maps, plans, and specifications, shall be such as in the judgment of the commission will be best adapted to a comprehensive scheme of improvement and utilization for the purposes of navigation, of water-power development, and of other beneficial public uses...
Page 72 - That whenever any licensee hereunder is directly benefited by the construction work of another licensee, a permittee, or of the United States of a storage reservoir or other headwater improvement, the Commission shall require as a condition of the license that the licensee so benefited shall reimburse the owner of such reservoir or other improvements for such part of the annual charges for interest, maintenance, and depreciation thereon as the Commission may deem equitable.
Page 1 - AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY, Washington, DC The committee met, pursuant to call, at 10.30 o'clock am in Room 326, Senate Office Building, Senator Charles L.