§ 831h-1. — Operation of dams primarily for promotion of navigation and controlling floods; generation and sale of electricity.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[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.)
