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    Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned electric utility corporation in the United States. TVA's service area covers all of Tennessee,...
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  • Tennessee Valley Authority v. Hiram Hill et al., or TVA v. Hill, 437 U.S. 153 (1978), was a United States Supreme Court case and the Court's first interpretation...
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    The Tennessee Valley is the drainage basin of the Tennessee River and is largely within the U.S. state of Tennessee. It stretches from southwest Kentucky...
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    This was aided in part by massive federal investment in the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and the city of Oak Ridge, which was established during...
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    grow into a trading center for local farmers. By the time the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) began making plans to build Norris Dam in the early 1930s...
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  • A list of power generating stations operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority: Apalachia Dam Bear Creek Dam Beaver Creek Dam Beech Dam Blue Ridge Dam...
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    Adjustment Act (May 12) Emergency Farm Mortgage Act (May 12) Tennessee Valley Authority (May 18) Securities Act (May 27) abrogation of gold clauses in...
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    Elk Avenue car club show, and many food and crafts vendors. Two Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) reservoirs in Carter County—impounded behind the Watauga...
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  • Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority, 297 U.S. 288 (1936), was a United States Supreme Court case that provided the first elaboration of the doctrine...
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    provided passenger rail services to Knoxville. In the 1940s, the Tennessee Valley Authority inundated the town as part of the construction of Cherokee Dam...
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    many of the major dams. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned electric utility coverings all of Tennessee and portions of nearby states...
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    industrial operations were established in cities in the region. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), created by Congress during the Great Depression in the...
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  • state of Tennessee receives its power from a variety of sources. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is the primary utility in Tennessee which generates...
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    Shelbyville to the Southeast, the Duck is impounded by Normandy Dam, a Tennessee Valley Authority project of the early 1970s which was built for flood control and...
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  • Marshall and Cherokee counties Scottsboro Electric Power Board Tennessee Valley Authority Tombigbee Electric Cooperative HQ and service in Hamilton, and...
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    Watauga Lake (category Tennessee Valley Authority)
    located east of Elizabethton, Tennessee, is the local name of the Watauga Reservoir created by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) with the 1948 completion...
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  • Marvin Travis Runyon (category Tennessee Valley Authority people)
    North American operations. He later served as chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) and as U.S. Postmaster General. He was a forceful and charismatic...
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    Representatives from 1921 to 1953. He was co-author of the bill for the Tennessee Valley Authority and from 1933 to 1936 he supported the New Deal programs of President...
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    Some alphabet agencies were established by Congress, such as the Tennessee Valley Authority. Others were established through Roosevelt executive orders, such...
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    Clinch River Nuclear Site (category Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
    Clinch River Nuclear Site (CRNS) is a project site owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). It was originally the site of the Clinch River Breeder...
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    major floods in 1867, 1886, 1901, 1902, 1916, 1924, and 1940. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) began the construction of the Watauga Dam in 1942 which...
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    home to the headquarters of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Tennessee Supreme Court's courthouse for East Tennessee, and the corporate headquarters...
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    ruptured at a coal ash pond at the Tennessee Valley Authority's Kingston Fossil Plant in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1 billion US gallons (4...
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    Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area (category Reservoirs in Tennessee)
    during the Johnson administration. Originally managed by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which constructed dams to create the two lakes in this area,...
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    development of wind power in Tennessee, an adjoining state with which it is collaborating, and from efforts by the Tennessee Valley Authority to both develop and...
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    times since the 1930s by Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) projects. The construction of TVA's Kentucky Dam on the Tennessee River and the Corps of Engineers'...
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    Douglas Lake (category Tennessee Valley Authority)
    Smoky Mountains National Park. The Douglas Dam was built by the Tennessee Valley Authority at a record pace from February 2, 1942, through February 19, 1943...
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    Decatur, along the Tennessee River, has grown to be the largest/busiest along the Tennessee River. The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was established...
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    Sequoyah v. Tennessee Valley Authority, 480 F.Supp. 608 (1979), was a Tennessee court case that ruled on the applicability of the Free Exercise clause...
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    agency of the Afghan Government. The agency was modeled on the Tennessee Valley Authority in the United States, with a remit covering lands in Farah Province...
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