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 75TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CH. 61-APR. 4, 1938 ceedings or other means or methods to affect the action or decisions of municipalities or farm organizations in the Tennessee Valley Authority with respect to the purchase of electric power from the Authority. (h) What efforts, if any, have been made by private power corn- Efforts of private interests to affect de- panies or other private interests to affect the decisions or act f csions of municipali- municipalities or farm organizations with respect to the purchase of ties etc. power from the Authority or acquiring title to their distributing systems. (i) Whether and to what extent, if any, have the public interests Extent of injury to public interests by been injured or jeopardized by the activities of any private power private power corn- companies or other private interests in attempting to prevent the pa D es',etc. Board from executing the provisions of said Act. (j) Whether or not said Authority has complied with that part Loctieon of prn- of subsection (a) of section 8 of such Act, as amended, which requires ment. that the principal office of the Authority be maintained in the imme- 16 48 .S. 831g. diate vicinity of Muscle Shoals, Alabama. (k) Whether the charges made by Chairman Arthur E. Morgan Whether certain that an attempt to defraud the Government of the United States has cres are true. been made in connection with purchase of certain lands are true; whether the affairs of the Authority had been conducted in a clan- destine manner frequently without the knowledge or presence of the Chairman; whether by action of the majority members the Chairman has not had opportunity to present his views before congressional committees. (1) Whether the Tennessee Valley Authority has exhibited partial- Whether partiality ity to large corporations by supplying power at a cheaper rate than available to municipalities and corporations, by contracting for long periods of time a large majority of available hydroelectric power and by including in such industrial contracts provisions tantamount to a secret rebate in that delivery of "secondary" power is provided during the season of the year when only "firm" power is available from Tennessee Valley Authority dams. (m) Whether the Authority has complied with that part of sec- Whether allocations tion 14 of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, as amended, which Janary, 1937, and requires (a) that the Tennessee Valley Authority should have sub- inannualreportthere- mitted to Congress on January 1, 1937, its allocation of costs to the 48 stat. *. various activities under its control up to that time, and (b) that the supp. i., s 83m.; Tennessee Valley Authority submit in each annual report thereafter its similar allocation of costs for the period covered in its report. (n) Whether the Authority has interfered with the Comptroller comptroer Generalth General's audits of the Authority required to be submitted annually audits. to Congress under section 14 of the Act as amended. (o) Whether it has offered unfair inducements to industrial organ- Ofering of unfair izations to leave their established locations to settle within the Ten-nducements nessee Valley Authority territory. (p) Whether it has forced rural customers to purchase expensive, Forcing of pur- unnecessary, and undesired electrical appliances under threat of refusing to supply electricity, and actually to have permitted poten- tial customers to make heavy investments in appliances after which service was refused until further purchases were made of unnecessary and undesired electrical appliances. (q) Whether by accounting methods and cost charges applicable vhethoneates ypr to private industry, the electric rates of the Authority provide a stick" of equitable . . rates of private in- legitimate, honest "yardstick" of equitable rates of private industry. dnstry. (r) Whether extravagance, mismanagement, and illegal conduct, Dipationoffunds. if any, by the Board has dissipated funds appropriated to the Ten- nessee Valley Authority. (s) Whether sodium nitrate could not be produced by the air Sodium nitrate reduction method by all Tennessee Valley Authority power plants, 155 52 STAT.]

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