Proposed Amendments to the Federal Water-Power Act: Hearing Before ... 66-3 on H.R. 14469, H.R. 14760, and H.R. 151261921 - 136 pages |
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Page 6 - That licenses shall be issued within any reservation only after a finding by the commission that the license will not interfere or be inconsistent with the purpose for which such reservation was created or acquired, and shall be subject to and contain such conditions as the Secretary of the department under whose supervision such reservation falls shall deem necessary for the adequate protection and utilization of such reservation...
Page 83 - That the project adopted, including the maps, plans, and specifications, shall be such as in the judgment of the Commission will be best adapted to a comprehensive plan for improving or developing a waterway or waterways for the use or benefit of interstate or foreign commerce, for the improvement and utilization of waterpower development, and for other beneficial public uses...
Page 87 - That the commission shall appoint an executive secretary, who shall receive a salary of $5,000 a year, and prescribe his duties, and the commission may request the President of the United States to detail an officer from the United States Engineer Corps to serve the commission as engineer officer, his duties to be prescribed by the commission. The work of the commission shall be performed by and through the Departments of War, Interior, and Agriculture and their engineering, technical, clerical,...
Page 110 - An Act to create a Federal Power Commission; to provide for the improvement of navigation; the development of water power; the use of the public lands in relation thereto; and to repeal section 18 of the River and Harbor Appropriation Act, approved August 8, 1917, and for other purposes...
Page 87 - ... or corporation the commission, before granting such application, shall at once give notice of such application in writing to any State or municipality likely to be interested in or affected by such application; and shall also publish notice of such application for eight weeks in a daily or weekly newspaper published in the county or counties in which the project or any part thereof or the lands affected thereby are situated.
Page 118 - ... commercialization of these unique national museums: Therefore, be it Resolved, That the American Association for the Advancement of Science...
Page 4 - ... Canyon, the Yosemite, the Sequoia (with its gigantic trees), and other national parks and monuments, and preserving for the present and for future generations these wonderful works of nature, and the wild animals and birds, so plentiful in the early days but now so scarce, is increasingly evident. The conflict between the demands of commerce and the preservation of these wonder places involves constant vigilance.
Page 111 - We ought to think long before we join with another country to make a waterway which we cannot control. The people who control the mouth of a river control the river. We are taking some risk when we put control of a large portion of our most important commerce in the hands of another country.
Page 82 - The commission has general administrative control over all power sites on the navigable waters and on the public lands and reservations of the United States, and over the location, design, construction, maintenance, and operation of power projects upon such sites, an investigation being required...
Page 5 - If this principle is not recognized, and commercialization in any form is allowed to creep in, it will be only a question of time when our Wild West will be only a memory and the big game of our country will be extinct, and these places and objects, now so wonderful, will be seriously and permanently injured.