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, 1955Committee 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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... reasonable notice and fair terms of enough power from time to time , so that the foregoing recipients now or hereafter authorized by law to engage in the distribution of electric energy may secure a reasonable share of the project power ...
... reasonable notice and fair terms of enough power from time to time , so that the foregoing recipients now or hereafter authorized by law to engage in the distribution of electric energy may secure a reasonable share of the project power ...
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... reasonable and practical solution and , in fact , the only practical solution that could be found , would provide some improvement for navigation and some improvement on the lake levels , that caused so much damage in the last 3 or 4 ...
... reasonable and practical solution and , in fact , the only practical solution that could be found , would provide some improvement for navigation and some improvement on the lake levels , that caused so much damage in the last 3 or 4 ...
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... reasonably ample at the present time , new power capacity must be installed to meet anticipated increases in the power loads which are the result of economic growth . Nonutilization of the additional diversion permitted at Niagara Falls ...
... reasonably ample at the present time , new power capacity must be installed to meet anticipated increases in the power loads which are the result of economic growth . Nonutilization of the additional diversion permitted at Niagara Falls ...
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... reasonably ample at the present time , new power capacity must be installed to meet anticipated increases in the power loads which are the result of economic growth . area . Nonutilization of the additional diversion permitted at ...
... reasonably ample at the present time , new power capacity must be installed to meet anticipated increases in the power loads which are the result of economic growth . area . Nonutilization of the additional diversion permitted at ...
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... reasonable market planning prior to completion of construction , Congress will decide the one question which has delayed construction thus far ; namely , what agency shall generate and sell the power . There is no apparent reason to ...
... reasonable market planning prior to completion of construction , Congress will decide the one question which has delayed construction thus far ; namely , what agency shall generate and sell the power . There is no apparent reason to ...
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Page 70 - WHEREAS the Senate of the United States by their resolution of March 3, 1909 (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring therein) did advise and consent to the ratification of the said Treaty...
Page 69 - The present treaty shall be ratified by the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by His Britannic Majesty. The ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible and the treaty shall take effect on the date of the exchange of its ratifications. It shall thereafter remain in force continuously unless and until terminated by twenty-four months' written notice given by either high contracting party to the other.
Page 70 - America, have caused the said treaty and the said understanding, as forming a part thereof, to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this...
Page 64 - All briefs, factums, pleadings, and documents printed for the use of the Commission must be in such form and size, with ample margin, that they can be conveniently bound together so as to make an ordinary octavo volume; and, as well as all quotations contained therein, and the covers thereof, must be printed in clear type (never smaller than pica) and on unglazed paper.
Page 63 - ... to take copies thereof; and any party not complying with such notice shall not afterwards be at liberty to put any such document in evidence on his behalf in such...
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.
Page 70 - EXCHANGE On proceeding to the exchange of the ratifications of the treaty signed at Washington on January 11, 1909, between the United States and Great Britain, relating to...
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...
Page 76 - This Treaty shall remain in force indefinitely. Either Party may terminate it one year after notice has been given to the other Party. In witness whereof the undersigned Plenipotentiaries have signed this Treaty.