[DOC] [TLE] Tellico Dam - Wikipedia [PAR] Tellico Dam is a dam built by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in Loudon 
County, Tennessee on the Little Tennessee River just above the main stem of the 
Tennessee River. ... In the 1970s, the era of dam-building ended. ... Construction 
of the dam was delayed when a small endangered fish called the snail darter 
was... [DOC] [TLE] Snail darter controversy - Wikipedia [PAR] The snail darter controversy involved the delay of the construction of the Tellico 
Dam on the Little Tennessee River in 1973. On August 12, 1973, University of 
Tennessee biologist and professor David Etnier discovered the snail darter in the 
Little Tennessee River while doing research related to ... Completion of the 
Tellico Dam project would violate the Act, so the Court of... [DOC] [TLE] Additional Resources - Tellico Dam: Before & After [PAR] They found a little fish in the Little Tennessee River called the Snail Darter, which 
... Carter signed a bill that contained the amendment, and Tellico Dam was 
completed. ... One of the dozens of U.S. environmental laws passed in the 1970s. 
This act was designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction due to
... [DOC] [TLE] Snail Darters and Sacred Places: Creative Application of ... - Springer [PAR] Cherokee IndiansTellico DamSnail darterTennessee Valley AuthorityRed Power 
... sacred sites and cultural resources would not be passed until the late 1970s, ... 
(such as the Red Power movement and concerns over burial sites), can end up ... 
the Tellico Dam project on the Little Tennessee River, which, once completed,... [DOC] [TLE] Public Goods Provision: Lessons from the Tellico Dam Controversy [PAR] ESA was the one to exempt the Tellico Dam (1978). Although the ... endangered 
species in the state, dollars the state received due to earlier ESA ... Delay, 42 J.L. 
& ECON. ..... while snorkeling in the Little Tennessee River below the dam. Over 
the .... evidence on the factors influencing environmental concerns in the 1970s. [DOC] [TLE] Agency Accountability and the TVA Tellico Dam Case - Digital ... [PAR] Jan 1, 1982 ... years of the long-running battles over completion of the TVA's ... The Tellico dam 
case found TVA in the late 1970's at a cusp ... of the little snail darter, the 
endangered fish that stopped the dam. In those ... cessful in their characterization 
of the issue: the case concerned ...... there is no justification for delay. [DOC] [TLE] Endangered Species Act Lessons Over 30 Years, and the Legacy of ... [PAR] Jan 1, 2004 ... and the Legacy of the Snail Darter, a Small Fish in a ..... Department of Interior 
and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, Pub. .... The story of the darter versus 
TVA's Tellico Dam has been ... its dams. By the early 1970s, 69 dams 
impounding 2,500 linear miles ..... concern for the species they are defending. [DOC] [TLE] Untitled [William Michael Camp on Power on the Hudson ... - H-Net [PAR] counts the struggles over the Storm King facility, show- ing how ... duction in the 
1960s and 1970s. ... which were of little concern to the Federal Power Com- ... to 
the effect that the plant would have on the fish pop- ... cially the well-known 
Tellico Dam in East Tennessee, which was delayed by the discovery of the snail 
darter,. [DOC] [TLE] Endangered Species Act: CQR [PAR] Jun 3, 2005 ... 6 In the 1970s, when construction on a Tennessee dam was halted to save the 
tiny snail darter, farmers and utilities claimed the tiny fish was not worth the cost. 
... new concern over the plight of threatened and endangered species. ..... Hill 
that the Tellico Dam should not be completed because it would... [DOC] [TLE] Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) - AllGov - Departments [PAR] Also a problem for the TVA in the 1970s was the snail darter case, in which the ... 
from completing the Tellico Dam because it would have eliminated the tiny fish's 
... and, due to a year-long startup delay, has a target completion date of 2013. .... 
During a debate in 2011 over

Question: In the 1970s, completion of the Tellico Dam in Tennessee was delayed due to concern over this small fish
Answer: Snail Darter