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105951 1 (1978-05-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadxzo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DOCOUEIT RESUME 05951 - [B15265451 TVA's Tellico Dan. Bay 25, 1978. 8 pp. * 6 enclosures (7 pp.). Testimony before the House Committee on Berchant Marine and Fisheries: Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment Subcosittee; by Rone Canfield, Jr., Director, Energy and Minerals Div. Contact: Energy and Minerals Div. Organization CoLcerned: Tennessee Valley Authority. Congressional Relevance: House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries: Fisheries and wildlife Conservation and the Environment Subcommittee. Authority: Endangered Species Act. a January 1977 court order halted completion of the Tellico Dan because it would destroy the habitat of the snail darter, an endangered species. GAO ezamined various alternatives associated with this issue and issued a report is October 1977, *The Tennessee Valley Authority's Tellico Dan Project--Costs, Alternatives, and 'enefits. If the project were not completed, some expenditures already xtde would provide benefits such as land, roads, and bridges and economic stimulation from workers# salaries. Alternatives involving a compromise between completing the project and the continued czistence of the snail darter in the Little Tennessee River did not seem possible. A low or intermediate dam would threaten the darter's survival and also reduce benefits. Abandoning the project withcut removing at least a portion of the dam would also threatGn the darter's survival. If the Tellico reservior were comFleted, it would provide recreation, shoreline development, and flood control benefits. The project could also provide navigation aad electric power generation. Some of the Tennessee Valley Authorit7's (TVA's) estimates of benefits were questioned. The Chairman of the Board of TVA should provide to the Congress detailed remaining cost and benefit information on the Tellico project and its alternatives. IVA should also obtain suggertions on developing alternativwm. No action should be taken on legislation to exempt the project from the Endangered Species Act of 1973 util the Congress has assessed updated information. (HBT)

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