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[CITE: 16USC831]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                 CHAPTER 12A--TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
 
Sec. 831. Creation; short title

    For the purpose of maintaining and operating the properties now 
owned by the United States in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in 
the interest of the National defense and for agricultural and industrial 
development, and to improve navigation in the Tennessee River and to 
control the destructive flood waters in the Tennessee River and 
Mississippi River Basins, there is created a body corporate by the name 
of the ``Tennessee Valley Authority'' (hereinafter referred to as the 
``Corporation''). The board of directors first appointed shall be deemed 
the incorporators, and the incorporation shall be held to have been 
effected from the date of the first meeting of the board. This chapter 
may be cited as the ``Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933.''

(May 18, 1933, ch. 32, Sec. 1, 48 Stat. 58.)
