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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.
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), created in 1933, provides economic development to the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which provides foreign aid and assists with international development.
Some alphabet agencies were established by Congress, such as the Tennessee Valley Authority. Others were established through Roosevelt executive orders , such as the Works Progress Administration and the Office of Censorship , or were part of larger programs such as the many that belonged to the Works Progress Administration .
The U.S. Department of Energy awarded a $250 million grant to the Tennessee Valley Authority and 10 of its local power companies that will fund 84 projects aimed at strengthening the electric grid ...
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) could be a cooperative tool to empower local communities to be self-sufficient and self-determinate. ... the federal government should step back.
Homeowners in Cheatham County, just outside of Nashville, Tennessee, are fuming after the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) surveyed their land for a potential transmission line for a new methane ...
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned electric utility company created by U.S. Code Title 16, Chapter 12A, the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933.. Despite its shares being owned by the federal government, TVA operates like a private corporation, and receives no taxpayer fundin
In Ashwander, the Supreme Court faced a challenge to the constitutionality of a congressional program of development of the Wilson Dam.The plaintiffs, preferred stockholders of the Alabama Power Company, had unsuccessfully protested to the corporation about its contracts with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).