Construction of Dams and Aircraft Overflights in National Park Units: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session on H.R. 4089 ... H.R. 4430 ... Hearing Held in Washington, DC, May 20, 1986, Volume 4 |
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... hydroelectric facilities within the boundaries of those parks . We must set forth a national policy which says that our national parks represent the very best of our American landscape and as such should be off limits to new water and ...
... hydroelectric facilities within the boundaries of those parks . We must set forth a national policy which says that our national parks represent the very best of our American landscape and as such should be off limits to new water and ...
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... hydroelectric power available for sale . Although this proposal has been withdrawn , the point is that it would have been allowed under existing law . I speak of these examples because they occurred in my own back- yard . But there are ...
... hydroelectric power available for sale . Although this proposal has been withdrawn , the point is that it would have been allowed under existing law . I speak of these examples because they occurred in my own back- yard . But there are ...
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... hydroelectric facilities within national parks or national monuments . At the time this prohibition was first en- acted , the National Park System consisted primarily of parks and monuments - that would be in the 1921 time frame . Since ...
... hydroelectric facilities within national parks or national monuments . At the time this prohibition was first en- acted , the National Park System consisted primarily of parks and monuments - that would be in the 1921 time frame . Since ...
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... hydro- electric projects , within any unit of the National Park System . Third , existing water development projects ... hydroelectric purposes , any new license must be authorized by the an act of Congress . Mr. Chairman , we recognize ...
... hydro- electric projects , within any unit of the National Park System . Third , existing water development projects ... hydroelectric purposes , any new license must be authorized by the an act of Congress . Mr. Chairman , we recognize ...
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... hydroelectric facilities within national parks or monuments , at the time that this prohibition was first enacted . You go on to say , the Park Service consists primarily of parks and monuments . But that 1921 law talks about as then ...
... hydroelectric facilities within national parks or monuments , at the time that this prohibition was first enacted . You go on to say , the Park Service consists primarily of parks and monuments . But that 1921 law talks about as then ...
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Page 56 - The service thus established shall promote and regulate the use of the Federal areas known as national parks, monuments, and reservations hereinafter specified by such means and measures as conform to the fundamental purpose of the said parks, monuments, and reservations, which purpose is to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wildlife therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment...
Page 89 - 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," and the Acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto.
Page 314 - States shall before such construction file declaration of such intention with the Commission, whereupon the Commission shall cause immediate investigation of such proposed construction to be made, and if upon investigation it shall find that the interests of interstate or foreign commerce...
Page 91 - Within the foregoing limitations of this section, the corporation may also, upon the approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission, make loans to aid in the temporary financing of railroads and railways engaged in interstate commerce, to railroads and railways in process of construction, and to receivers of such railroads and railways, when in the opinion of the board of directors of the corporation such railroads or railways are unable to obtain funds upon reasonable terms through banking channels...
Page 56 - An Act To establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes," approved August 25, 1916 (39 Stat.
Page 59 - States is necessary to enable the applicant properly to meet the transportation needs of the public, and that the prospective earning power of the applicant and the character and value of the security offered are such as to furnish reasonable assurance of the applicant's ability to repay the loan within the time fixed therefor, and to meet its other obligations in connection with...
Page 87 - reclamation fund," to be used in the examination and survey for and the construction and maintenance of irrigation works for the storage, diversion, and development of waters for the reclamation of arid and semi-arid lands in the said States and Territories...
Page 76 - That hereafter no permit, license, lease, or authorization for dams, conduits, reservoirs, power houses, transmission lines, or other works for storage or carriage of water, or for the development, transmission, or utilization of power, within the limits as now...
Page 87 - That the commission is hereby authorized and empowered — (a) To make investigations and to collect and record data concerning the utilization of the water resources of any region to be developed, the water power industry and its relation to other industries and to interstate or foreign commerce...
Page 77 - 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...