Federal Power Act: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 2972, a Bill to Amend Section 201 of the Federal Power Act and H.R. 2973, a Bill to Amend the Federal Power Act. June 23, 24, 26, July 2, 10 and 11, 1947U.S. Government Printing Office, 1947 - 722 pages Considers legislation to limit Federal jurisdiction over hydroelectric projects and to revise restrictions on interstate electric power sales between subsidiaries of the same utility holding company. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
apply Attleboro authority Benton bill Chairman Commission's committee Connecticut Light Connecticut Power Connecticut River connection construction cost decision definition of navigable distribution effect electric energy electric utilities energy at wholesale energy in interstate facilities fact Federal Government Federal license Federal Power Act Federal Power Commission Federal regulation Federal Water Power foreign commerce Fort Benton Georgia Power HALL HARRIS Hartford HESELTON horsepower hydroelectric industry intended interconnections interstate commerce intrastate Jersey Central legislation Light & Power manufacturers matter ment MILLER mission Missouri River navigable streams navigable waters nonnavigable operation opinion permit plants prior to June provisions public interest Public Service public utility Public Utility Act purpose question rates regulatory sale of electric section 23 Senate SMITH statement Supreme Court tion transmission of electric transmitted United Water Power Act water-power wholesale in interstate Windsor Locks Canal Wisconsin Wisconsin River
Popular passages
Page 336 - It is the power to regulate ; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all others vested in congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the constitution.
Page 357 - ... and the right of way for the construction of ditches and canals for the purposes herein specified is acknowledged and confirmed ; but whenever any person, in the construction of any ditch or canal, injures or damages the possession of any settler on the public domain, the party committing such injury or damage shall be liable to the party injured for such injury or damage.
Page 434 - States, shall at all times be controlled by such reasonable rules and regulations in the interest of navigation, including the control of the level of the pool caused by such dam or diversion structure as may be made from time to time by the Secretary of War.
Page 75 - Those rivers must be regarded as public navigable rivers in law which are navigable in fact. And they are navigable in fact when they are used, or are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition, as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water.
Page 300 - Commission, on the ground that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise required of him may tend to incriminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture...
Page 663 - ... conform to such rules and regulations as the commission may from time to time prescribe for the protection of life, health, and property.
Page 123 - Navigable waters" means those parts of streams or other bodies of water over which Congress has jurisdiction under its authority to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States, and which either in their natural or improved condition notwithstanding interruptions between the navigable parts of such streams or waters by falls, shallows, or rapids compelling land carriage, are used or suitable for use for the transportation of persons or property in interstate or foreign commerce...
Page 381 - The capability of use by the public for purposes of transportation and commerce affords the true criterion of the navigability of a river, rather than the extent and manner of that use. If it be capable in its natural state of being used for purposes of commerce, no matter in what mode the commerce may be conducted, it is navigable in fact, and becomes *in law a public river or [*442 highway.
Page 129 - States shall before such construction file declaration of such intention with the Commission, whereupon the Commission shall cause immediate investigation of such proposed construction to be made, and if upon investigation it shall find that the interests of interstate or foreign commerce...
Page 75 - And they constitute navigable waters of the United States within the meaning of the acts of Congress, in contra-distinction from the navigable waters of the States, when they form in their ordinary condition by themselves, or by uniting with other waters, a continued highway over which commerce is or may be carried on with other States or foreign countries in the customary modes in which such commerce is conducted by water.