Niagara Power Development: Hearings Before the Committee on Public Works, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 142, H.R. 420, H.R. 5377, H.R. 5706, and H.R. 5878, Bills to Authorize the Construction of Certain Works of Improvement in the Niagara River for Power and Other Purposes. June 8, 9, and 10, 1955

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1955 - Niagara Falls - 326 pages
Committee Serial No. 84-7. Considers legislation to authorize FPC to issue license to the New York Power Authority to construct and operate an electric power project on the Niagara River. Also examines problems related to Canadian plans to divert Niagara River waters for power purposes.

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Page 66 - ... maintenance on their respective sides of the boundary of any remedial or protective works or any dams or other obstructions in waters flowing from boundary waters or in waters at a lower level than the boundary in rivers flowing across the boundary, the effect of which is to raise the natural level of waters on the other side of the boundary, unless the construction or maintenance thereof is approved by the aforesaid International Joint Commission.
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Page 49 - This policy is further declared to be that the projects herein provided for shall be considered primarily as for the benefit of the people of the section as a whole and particularly the domestic and rural consumers to whom the power can economically be made available...
Page 67 - The High Contracting Parties agree that the St. Mary and Milk Rivers and their tributaries (in the State of Montana and the Provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan) are to be treated as one stream for the purposes of irrigation and power...
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