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02791 - [A2073163]
[Costs, Alternatives, and Benefits of the Tellico Water
Resources Project]. Jujy 21, 1977. 9 pp. * 6 enclosures (7 pp.).
Testimony before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public
Works: Resource Protection Subcommittee; by Monte CanfirA Jr.,
Director, Energy and Minerals Div.
Issue Area: Water and Water Related Prograri (2500).
Contact: Energy and Minerals Div.
Budget Function: Natural Resources, Environment, and Energy:
Water Resources and Power (3014).
Organizat'ion Concerned: Departi~nt of the Interior; Tennessee
Valley Authority.
Congressional Relevance: Senate Committee on Environment and
Public Works: Resource Protection Subcommittee.
Authority: Endangered Species Act of 1173.
A Federal Court of Appeals sialted the completion of the
Tellico dam because it would destroy the critical habitat of the
anail darter--a 3-inch fish protected by the Endangered Species
Act. As of January 1977, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
had obligated about $103 million on the project and estimated
that about $13 to $19 milliou was required for completiou. The
actual dam portion of the project has been completed. A workable
compromise between completing the Tellico project and the
continued existence of the snail darter in the Little Tennessee
River is not possible. TVA has twice petitioned the Secretary of
the Interior to delist the Little Tennessee River as the snail
darter's criticul habitat. Because the dam in its present form
threatens the snail darter's survival, any evaluation of
alternative plans must include the costs of removing at least
part of tbh dam. TVA estimates that removing the concrete and
- rthen dams and restoring the area could cost as much as $16
mi.ilion. The Chairman of the Board of TVA should gather and
provide to the Congress detailed remaining cost and benefit
information on the project and its alternatives. Until this
infcrmation is received, Congress should prohibit by law the
expenditure of existing appropriations and not authorize
additional appropriations for work on the project that would
further endanger the snail darterls survival or not be necessary
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