at the Comptroller General of the United States shall audit the accounts authority at such times as he shall determine, but not less frequently e each governmental fiscal year, with personnel of his selection. In nection the Comptroller General and his representative shall have free à access to all papers, books, records, files, accounts, plants, warehouses, nd all other things, property, and places belonging to or under the control d or employed by the authority, and shall be afforded full facilities for all cash and verifying transactions with and balances in depositaries. ptroller General shall make report of each such audit in triplicate, one the President, one for the authority, and the other to be retained by the uses of the Congress. No such report, however, shall be made by otroller General until the authority shall have had reasonable opportunity ne any exception or criticism of the Comptroller General or the General ng Office, to point out, explain, and answer errors therein, and to file in a statement which shall be submitted by the Comptroller General with t. The expenses for each such audit shall be paid from any appropriation priations for the General Accounting Office, and such part of such exmay be allocated to the cost of generating, transmitting, and distributing nergy shall be reimbursed promptly by the authority as billed by the ller General. Each authority shall have power to make such expendisuch offices, vehicles, furnishings, equipment, supplies, books, periodicals, and attendance at meetings, and such other facilities and services, as ority deems necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of such under this Act or any other law of the United States.

REPORTS AND ACCOUNTS

5. (a) Each authority shall submit to the President and to the Congress, ber of each year, (1) a financial statement and complete report of the of the authority for the preceding governmental fiscal year, and (2) a report on the status and progress of all its projects and activities since ion of such authority or the date of its last such report.

ch authority shall at all times keep complete and accurate accounts of tions, including all funds expended or received for the account of the . Such accounts shall be kept in such manner as appropriately to , insofar as practicable, the accounts in respect of the different classes ions, projects, and activities of the authority.

VENUE AND JURISDICTION; INJUNCTIONS AND UNDERTAKING

7. (a) Each authority shall be held to be an inhabitant and resident, e meaning of the laws of the United States relating to the venue of civil he judicial district in which its principal office is located at the time of the ement of suit. The district courts of the United States shall have urisdiction, without regard to the amount in controversy, over any g at law or in equity brought by or against an authority under this Act ther law of the United States. Any proceeding at law or in equity against an authority in a State court may be removed by the authority trict court of the United States for the district in which the proceeding g, and, to effect such removal, it shall not be necessary that any other parties defendant join in the petition for removal. Except as otherwise in this subsection, the procedure for removal shall be according to the e laws of the United States relating to removal.

twithstanding any other provision of law, the district court of the ates for the judicial district in which the principal office of an authority at the time of the commencement of suit shall have exclusive jurisdiction ceedings at law or in equity against such authority, or any director, ployee, or agent of such authority, in which there is drawn in question ty of this Act or any other law of the United States, or the validity of r conduct of such authority or such director, officer, employee, or agent suant to or under color of this Act or any such other law; and no other the United States, and no court of any State, shall have jurisdiction of cause now pending or hereafter commenced without the express consent uthority and of any such director, officer, employee, or agent.

enjoining any authority, or any director, officer, employee, or agent of an authority, from doing any act or thing pursuant to or under color of this Act or any other law of the United States; or a temporary or permanent injunction directly or indirectly enjoining any person, any public or cooperative agency, or any organization from purchasing water or electric energy from any authority; or a temporary or permanent injunction which in any way directly or indirectly restrains or delays the carrying out of any provision of this Act or of any other law of the United States relating to an authority or any right, power, duty, or function of an authority. Any person, any public or cooperative agency, or any organization which, directly or indirectly, is or may be adversely affected, or is or may be deprived of (or delayed in the exercise of) a right to purchase water or electric energy, by the issuance or continuance of any such injunction, may upon application intervene in the proceeding and become a party thereto, at any time prior to the final determination of the cause, and shall be protected by such undertaking or bond. (d) Such undertaking or bond shall be filed by the party or parties (hereinafter called the complainants) to or for whom such temporary or permanent injunction, or any portion thereof, is to be issued or continued. Such undertaking or bond shall be secured by adequate security in an amount, to be fixed by the court, sufficient to recompense the persons enjoined and the authority, the United States, any intervenor, and any person or agency damaged, for any and all loss, expense, and damage which may be caused or contributed to by the issuance or continuance of any such injunction. Such undertaking or bond shall constitute an agreement by the complainants and the sureties that such undertaking or bond shall continue in force and effect, regardless of any temporary or permanent order, judgment, or decree issued by the court, until the cause is finally determined; and shall constitute a further agreement by the complainants and sureties

(1) That they shall pay such loss, expense, and damage in the event (A) that it shall be determined that the complainants were not entitled to the relief, or any part thereof, granted, or (B) that it shall be determined upon final disposition of the cause that the complainants were not entitled to permanent injunctive relief against any or all of the acts or conduct enjoined by such temporary or permanent injunction or injunctions;

(2) That a hearing to assess such loss, expense, and damage may be held in the same proceeding, and that upon such hearing the court shall have jurisdiction to enter a decree and judgment for such loss, expense, and damage against such complainants and sureties, and, in the case of the complainants without regard for the amount of the undertaking or bond; and that the undertaking or bond shall constitute a submission by the complainants and sureties to the jurisdiction of the court for such purpose; and

(3) That there shall be permitted to intervene in the cause, at any time prior to the termination of such hearing or to the final determination of the cause, any person, any public or cooperative agency, or any organization which, directly or indirectly, is or may be adversely affected, or is or may be deprived of (or delayed in the exercise of) a right to purchase water or electri energy, by the issuance or continuance of the injunction or injunctions; and that any such person or agency shall be given reasonable and adequate oppor tunity so to intervene and to be protected by the undertaking or bond. The right and remedy herein provided in respect of an undertaking or bond shal be in addition to any and all other rights and remedies that may exist at law of in equity.

(e) Upon a hearing to assess damages under any such undertaking or bond there shall be assessed, in addition to other appropriate items of loss, expense, and damage, (1) all reasonable costs and expense of obtaining the vacation of th injunction or injunctions; (2) in the case of the authority and the United States the probable loss to the authority or the United States of the income which th authority or the United States would have secured, in the absence of any injunc tion, in light of present and potential markets; and (3) in the case of other partie and intervenors, the probable loss and damage to such parties or intervenors and to their present and potential customers not otherwise represented in the caus (determined upon the basis of the loss in income to such parties and intervenor and the aggregate losses to such present and potential customers) suffered b reason of the issuance or continuance of the injunction or injunctions. When ever any party or intervenor shall receive any sum on account of any such los or damage to such present or potential customers, such sum, subject to th

18. (a) Each authority may cause proceedings to be instituted for the nation of any land, easement, right-of-way, or personalty, or any interest f the foregoing, which in the judgment of the authority is necessary or ate for or reasonably incidental to the carrying out of the purposes of the y under this Act or any other law of the United States. Notwithstanding ision of any other law, any condemnation proceeding hereafter instituted authority in carrying out the purposes of such authority uuder this Act or er law of the United States shall be governed by the provisions of this The proceeding shall be instituted in the district court of the United or the district in which the property to be acquired (in this section called erty), or any part thereof, is located, and such court shall have jurisdicivest the title to the property from all persons or claimants and vest the the United States in fee simple, free and clear from all liens and encumand to enter a decree quieting the title thereto in the United States. pon the filing of a petition for condemnation, the district court (for the of ascertaining the value of the property and assessing the compensation arded, and for the purpose of determining the ownership of the property, re and holders of valid liens or encumbrances thereon, and all other quesfact or law essential to a proper distribution of a condemnation award) point a commission consisting of a special master, who shall be a practicney, and two other commissioners. Such commissioners shall be selected hout the vicinity in which the property is situated, and shall take and e an oath that they do not have any interest in any property which it may ble for the United States to acquire in the furtherance of the project or in erty in the immediate vicinity in which the property to be acquired is It shall be the duty of the special master to preside at all hearings had e commission and to rule upon questions of procedure. The special hall inquire into and determine the questions of the ownership of the to be acquired, the nature and holders of valid liens or encumbrances and all other questions of fact or law essential to a proper distribution of a ation award, except that the three commissioners as a commission shall nto and determine the value of the property and each interest therein; special master and the commission respectively shall hold hearings and ence for such purposes.

ch commissioner shall receive a per diem of not to exceed $20 for his together with an additional amount of $5 per day for subsistence for ally spent away from his domicile in the performance of his duties. The oners may designate competent court reporters, who shall report the gs and who shall receive for their services a sum not to exceed the preer-diem compensation in that locality for similar services. Such reporters ish to any party, upon payment by such party of the customary charge cality, a certified transcript of the proceedings. The commissioners are ed to administer oaths and subpena witnesses, who shall be entitled to he same fees as witnesses in the United States courts. Hearings before issioners shall be conducted at such time and place as the special master commission, respectively, shall fix, having due regard for the convenience rties. the determination of the value of the property, or of any interest therein, aimant or claimants

The cost to such claimant or claimants of such property or such interest, any improvement made therein by such claimant or claimants, shall be as the best evidence of value: Provided, That the acquisition of such ty or interest and the making of such improvement were bona fide and ot made in contemplation of the particular, or any other, condemnation ding. But such cost need not be taken as the best evidence of value (A) property or interest was acquired by such claimant or claimants more our years prior to the filing of the petition for condemnation, or (B) if re found particular and unusual circumstances which would make the t, so determined as value, excessive, inadequate, or otherwise not just sation for such property or interest.

There shall not be included in such determination of value any increment e which arises subsequent to the enactment of this Act and which is

(e) The special master shall file with the court a report of the findings of fac and conclusions of law as to the questions determined by him, and the commission shall file an award setting forth their findings as to the value of the property making a separate award and valuation in the premises in respect of each separate parcel or interest involved. Upon the filing of such a report or such award in court, the clerk shall give notice and mail copies thereof to such parties and in such manner and form as directed by the district court.

(f) Any party may file exceptions to such a report or such award within twenty days from the date such report or award is filed in court. Exceptions to a specia master's report shall be heard before the district court. Exceptions to the commission's award shall be heard before three United States circuit and/or district judges who shall be designated by the presiding judge of the circuit court of appeals for that district, unless the parties stipulate that such exceptions may be heard by the district court. Upon such hearings the judges or the district court, as the case may be, shall pass upon the proceeding had before the special master or the commission, as the case may be, on the record made therein. Not less than ten days prior to a hearing before such judges a copy of the record shall be furnished each judge by the party who filed exceptions. No additional evidence shall be considered by the judges or the district court, as the case may be, unless such evidence shall have been offered before the special master or the commission, as the case may be, or unless there are reasonable grounds for failure so to have done. Upon such hearings such judges or the district court, as the case may be, shall enter their judgment or decree affirming, modifying, or setting aside, in whole or in part, the report or award previously made.

(g) At any time within thirty days from the filing of the decision of the judges or district court, as the case may be, upon the hearing on exceptions to the report or award, any party may take an appeal from such decision to the circuit court of appeals in the same manner and with like effect as an appeal may be taken from a final order or decree of a district court in an equity proceeding.

(h) Unless title and the right of possession shall have passed earlier under the provisions of the Act of February 26, 1931 (ch. 307, secs. 1 to 5, inclusive, 46 Stat. 1421), as compiled in sections 258a to 258e, inclusive, of title 40 of the United States Code, title to the property and the right to the possession thereof shall pass (1) upon acceptance of an award by the owner or owners of the property and the payment of the money awarded; or (2) upon final determination of the cause and the payment of the award to the person or persons entitled thereto, or the payment of the award into the registry of the court. And the authority shall be entitled to a writ in the same proceeding to put the authority into possession of such property.

(i) In the case of any property owned in whole or in part by a minor, insane person, incompetent person, or an estate of a deceased person, the legal representative of such minor, insane person, incompetent person, or estate shall have power, with the approval of the district judge in whose court the proceeding is pending, to consent to or reject any report or award herein provided for or to make settlement with an authority. In the event that there be no such legal representative for such minor, insane person, or incompetent person, or that such legal representative shall fail or decline to act, such judge may upon motion appoint a guardian ad litem to act for such minor, insane person, or incompetent person; and such guardian ad litem shall act to the full extent and to the same purpose and effect as his ward could act if competent, and such guardian ad litem shall be deemed legal representative to respond, conduct, or maintain any proceeding or make any settlement, as herein provided for, affecting his ward.

(j) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to deprive an authority of the rights conferred by the Act of February 26, 1931 (ch. 307, secs. 1 to 5, inclusive, 46 Stat. 1421), as compiled in sections 258a to 258e, inclusive, of title 40 of the United States Code. Any amount tendered into court by the authority under such Act of February 26, 1931, shall be without prejudice on any hearing as to the value of the property or interest being condemned.

PENAL LAWS; VIOLATIONS OF THIS ACT

SEC. 19. (a) All general penal statutes relating to the larceny, embezzlement, conversion, or improper handling, retention, use, or disposal of public moneys or property of the United States, shall apply to the moneys and property of the authorities and to moneys and properties of the United States entrusted to the authorities.

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y. t shall be unlawful for any person to do any act or thing, or to enter into spiracy, collusion, or agreement, express or implied, with intent to defraud ority or wrongfully or unlawfully to defeat its purposes. Any person plates any provision of this subsection or subsection (b) shall be guilty of se against the United States and, upon conviction thereof, be fined not an $10,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

Each authority may transmit such evidence as may be available concerning or thing in violation of any provision of this section to the Attorney Genho, in his discretion, may institute the appropriate criminal proceedings his Act.

RECEIPTS AND APPROPRIATIONS

20. (a) All receipts of each authority shall be covered into the Treasury of ted States to the credit of miscellaneous receipts; except that a continuing such amount, not to exceed $500,000, as the authority deems necessary, set up and maintained from such receipts in the Treasury to the credit of thority and subject to check by it; and the authority may use such fund y operating costs and to insure continuity of operations.

There are hereby authorized to be appropriated from time to time such may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.

SEPARABILITY OF PROVISIONS

21. If any provision of this Act or the application of such provision to any or circumstance shall be held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the tion of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to t is held invalid shall not be affected thereby.

RANKIN. Mr. Chairman, I wonder if it would be in order for me since these bills both cover exactly the same areas-unanimous it that the map which the Chairman has had prepared, be inserthe record at this point.

CHAIRMAN. I think that is important.

RANKIN. It will show where these authorities are located. e map referred to is inserted facing p. 21.)

RANKIN. Mr. Chairman, this bill presents, perhaps, the st issue that has been laid before the Congress of the United in your day and mine, insofar as it affects the average individual now living, or who is to live in this country for the next 100 and perhaps for centuries to come.

the first real step ever taken by the Federal Government for nplete development of our natural resources, and for the saving e resources to the American people throughout all time to come. int to call attention to the fact also that in the beginning I iced in the House the same bill that Senator Norris presented Senate.

yesterday I introduced an amended bill which carries four

s.

You will find that section 4 of the new bill reduces the r of directors of each one of these authorities from 3 to 1. experience recently has convinced me, at least, and I think it nvinced the administration, that this work can be carried on ffectively with one man in charge and having full responsibility. PARSONS. Where is that change?

RANKIN. That is in section 4 of the new bill.

ther change made there is that the term of office is limited to ; instead of 9.