Regional Conservation and Development of the National Resources: Hearings Before the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, House of Representatives, Seventy-fifth Congress, First[-third] Session, on H.R. 7365 and H.R. 7863, Bills to Provide for the Regional Conservation and Development of the National Resources and for Other Purposes, Volumes 2-4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1937 |
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... administration of hydroelectric facilities and appurter works which are or may be economically interconnected by transmission li Each regional power authority created under this Act shall be an agency instrumentality of the United ...
... administration of hydroelectric facilities and appurter works which are or may be economically interconnected by transmission li Each regional power authority created under this Act shall be an agency instrumentality of the United ...
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... administration of tant public power projects would seem therefore to require a special admin- ve set - up . proposed bill accordingly directs the President to set up a regional power rity , whenever he deems necessary in the public ...
... administration of tant public power projects would seem therefore to require a special admin- ve set - up . proposed bill accordingly directs the President to set up a regional power rity , whenever he deems necessary in the public ...
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... administration of hydroelectric s which are or may be economically interconnected by transmission lines . Within 6 months after the passage of this act the President is authorized te the Columbia Valley Power Authority to take over the ...
... administration of hydroelectric s which are or may be economically interconnected by transmission lines . Within 6 months after the passage of this act the President is authorized te the Columbia Valley Power Authority to take over the ...
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... administration all employ- should be subject to the requirements of the civil - service laws . All citizens , who may be interested in competing for the positions will have the oppor- to do so , those who show the best qualifications ...
... administration all employ- should be subject to the requirements of the civil - service laws . All citizens , who may be interested in competing for the positions will have the oppor- to do so , those who show the best qualifications ...
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... administration - human conservation . This think , that we must have practical , but comprehensive planning on a and ... Administration , Bureau Roads , and the Biological Survey is regionalized ; the programs of the ral Adjustment ...
... administration - human conservation . This think , that we must have practical , but comprehensive planning on a and ... Administration , Bureau Roads , and the Biological Survey is regionalized ; the programs of the ral Adjustment ...
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Page 110 - An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes", approved September 7, 1916, as amended, shall extend to persons given employment under the provisions of this Act.
Page 115 - If any provision of this Act, or the application of such provision to any person or circumstance, shall be held invalid, the remainder of this Act, or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected thereby.
Page 12 - Such action shall be brought in the district court of the United States for the judicial district in which the plaintiff resides, or has his principal place of business, or, if he does not reside or have his principal place of business within any such judicial district, in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.
Page 672 - ... the laws of any State or Territory relating to the control, appropriation, use or distribution of water used in irrigation, or any vested right acquired thereunder, and the Secretary of the Interior, in carrying out the provisions of this Act, shall proceed in conformity with such laws, and nothing herein shall in any way affect any right of any State or of the Federal Government or of any landowner, appropriator, or user of water in, to, or from any interstate stream or the waters thereof.
Page 108 - Rate schedules shall be drawn having regard to the recovery (upon the basis of the application of such rate schedules to the capacity of the electric facilities of Bonneville project) of the cost of producing and transmitting such electric energy, including the amortization of the capital investment over a reasonable period of years.
Page 688 - ... all surplus water over and above such actual appropriation and use, together with the water of all lakes, rivers, and other sources of water supply upon the public lands, and not navigable, shall remain and be held free for the appropriation and use of the. public for irrigation, mining, and manufacturing purposes subject to existing rights.
Page 24 - Commission will be best adapted to a comprehensive plan for improving or developing a waterway...
Page 23 - In issuing preliminary permits hereunder or licenses where no preliminary permit has been issued and in issuing licenses to new licensees under section 15 hereof the Commission shall give preference to applications therefor by States and municipalities, provided the plans for the same are deemed by the Commission equally well adapted, or shall within a reasonable time to be fixed by the Commission be made equally well adapted, to conserve and utilize in the public interest the water resources of...
Page 24 - Whenever, in the judgment of the Commission, the development of any water resources for public purposes should be undertaken by the United States itself, the Commission shall not approve any application for any project affecting such development...
Page 112 - No temporary restraining order or temporary injunction shall be issued except on condition that complainant shall first file an undertaking with adequate security in an amount to be fixed by the court sufficient to recompense those enjoined for any loss, expense, or damage caused by the improvident or erroneous issuance of such order or injunction, including all reasonable costs (together with a reasonable attorney's fee...