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[CITE: 16USC831h-1]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
                 CHAPTER 12A--TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
 
Sec. 831h-1. Operation of dams primarily for promotion of 
        navigation and controlling floods; generation and sale of 
        electricity
        
    The Board is directed in the operation of any dam or reservoir in 
its possession and control to regulate the stream flow primarily for the 
purposes of promoting navigation and controlling floods. So far as may 
be consistent with such purposes, the Board is authorized to provide and 
operate facilities for the generation of electric energy at any such dam 
for the use of the Corporation and for the use of the United States or 
any agency thereof, and the Board is further authorized, whenever an 
opportunity is afforded, to provide and operate facilities for the 
generation of electric energy in order to avoid the waste of water 
power, to transmit and market such power as in this chapter provided, 
and thereby, so far as may be practicable, to assist in liquidating the 
cost or aid in the maintenance of the projects of the Authority.

(May 18, 1933, ch. 32, Sec. 9a, as added Aug. 31, 1935, ch. 836, Sec. 5, 
49 Stat. 1076.)
