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The Tennessee Valley Authority is a government-owned corporation created by U.S. Code Title 16, Chapter 12A, the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933.It was initially founded as an agency to provide general economic development to the region through power generation, flood control, navigation assistance, fertilizer manufacturing, and agricultural development.
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of Tennessee. According to the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies , the state had 375 law enforcement agencies employing 15,976 sworn police officers, about 256 for each 100,000 residents.
In 1993, he transferred to the U.S. Tennessee Valley Authority Police to eventually become the Assistant Chief of Police for Criminal Investigations. After the September 11 attacks , he represented TVA full-time as a Task Force Agent on the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force , until his retirement in 2005.
The Tennessean's letters reflect the views of the authors and add to public discourse. At issue today: Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) rate hikes.
The Tennessee Valley Authority released new data showing the historic impact of Hurricane Helene ... the day Knoxville police and fire rescue teams were on site to search the area in Washington ...
Tennessee Valley Authority President and CEO Jeff Lyash talks with editors and reporters Nov. 12, 2019, during a meeting with the editorial board at The Commercial Appeal office in Downtown Memphis.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) is the State Patrol organization for the U.S. state of Tennessee, responsible for enforcing all federal and state laws relating to traffic on the state's federal and state highways. The agency was created to protect the lives, property, and constitutional rights of people in Tennessee.
Morgan's views on race greatly informed his actions as head of the Tennessee Valley Authority, leading him to exclude Black Americans from employment and housing opportunities offered to whites by the "New Deal" program. As a result, all-white towns such as Norris, Tennessee, came to characterize his vision for "model" communities.