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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.
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 .
Wilson Dam is a dam on the Tennessee River in Lauderdale and Colbert counties of Alabama, United States.Completed in 1924 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, it impounds Wilson Lake, and is one of nine Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) dams on the Tennessee River.
Even a cursory reading of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, the 1933 federal legislation that created the nation's largest public power provider, suggests its headquarters should be in Alabama ...
Case history; Prior: Certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 78 F.2d 578: Holding; Congress did not abuse its power with the Tennessee Valley Authority, a government corporation established as part of the New Deal to improve the economy of the state.
Tellico Dam is a concrete gravity and earthen embankment dam on the Little Tennessee River that was built by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in Loudon County, Tennessee. Planning for a dam structure on the Little Tennessee was reported as early as 1936 but was deferred for development until 1942.
The Tennessee Valley Authority — which generates electricity for 10 million customers in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia — is overwhelming Black ...
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