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485 Authority is given broad power to enable it to carry out the responsibilities with*which it is charged.443 The operation of dams and reservoirs is to be primarily for the purposes of promoting navigation and controlling floods, with operation for power generation to be consistent with these primary purposes.44* Under the terms of the Act, the President is directed to recommend legislation for comprehensive development of the Tennessee drainage basin which would foster the "orderly and proper physical, economic, and social development" of the area.445 In addition, such recommended legislation must be for the declared special purpose of bringing about: ^ (1) the maximum amount of flood control; (2) the max- imum development of said Tennessee River for naviga- tion purposes; (3) the maximum generation of electric power consistent with flood control and navigation; (4) the proper use of marginal lands; (5) the proper method of reforestation of all lands in said drainage basin suit- able for reforestation; and (6) the economic and social well-being of the people living in the said river basin. Strongly endorsing this unified river control, the Joint Con- gressional Committee which investigated TVA in 1939, said:447 ut See principally §§ 4, 5, 48 Stat. 60, 61, as amended, 16 U. S. C. 831c, 831d. 444 § 9a, as added by Act of August 31,1935, § 5,49 Stat. 1075,1076,16 U. S. 0. 831h-l. 445 § 22, 48 Stat. 69,16 U. S. C. 831u. By Ex. O. No. 6161, June 8,1933, the President directed TVA to make such general plans as may be "necessary and suitable to aid the proper use, conservation, and development of the natural resources of the Tennessee River drainage basin, and of such adjoin- ing territory as may be related to or materially affected by the development consequent to this act, and to promote the general welfare of the citizens of said area." 448 § 23, 48 Stat. 69, 16 U. S. O. 831 v. By the 1935 amendment, the TVA Board was directed to report to Congress a recommendation for the unified development of the Tennessee River system. Act of August 31, 1935, § 2, 49 Stat. 1075,16 U. S. O. 831c (j) note following. w Sen. Doc. No. 56, 76th Cong., 1st sess., p. 236 (1939).

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