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68TH CONGRESS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES REPORT
2d Bession No. 1247
DEVELOPMENT OF HYDROELECTRIC ENERGY AT
GREAT FALLS
JANUARY 19, 1925.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
state of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. ZIHLMAN, from the Committee on the District of Columbia,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 746]
The Committee on the District of Columbia, to whom was re-
ferred Senate bill 746, refer same back to the House with the fol-
lowing amendments, with the recommendation that the amendments
be agreed to and the bill do pass.
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the following
in lieu thereof:
That the improvement of the Potomac River for the improvement of the
navigable capacity thereof and for the development of hydroelectric power,
in accordance with the report submitted in Senate Document No. 403,
Sixty-sixth Congress, third session, is hereby adopted and authorized to be
prosecuted under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of
the Chief of Engineers in accordance with the plans recommended in said report:
Provided, That the Secretary of War may, upon the recommendation of the Chief
of Engineers, make such modifications in said plans as he may deem advisable.
SEc. 2. The Federal Power Commission is hereby authorized to issue licenses
for the purpose of utilizing the surplus water or water power to be made available
by the construction of the dams and other necessary works authorized in the
preceding section under the terms and in accordance with the principles laid down
in the Federal water power act (Forty-first Statutes, page 1063).
SEC. 3. Actual construction shall not be commenced on any unit of the com-
plete project until the necessary lands and easements for flowage for such unit
have been acquired by purchase or condemnation, or agreements made for such
purchase, on terms deemed reasonable by the Secretary of War, and until guar-
anties have been obtained in such form as to satisfy the Federal Power Com-
mission that the power cbn be disposed of on terms that will protect the invest-
ment of the United States and conserve and utilize in the public interest the
navigation and water resources of the Potomac River.
Amend the title to read as follows:
A bill providing for the improvement of the Potomac River and the develop-
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