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Show 484 charged with the broadest duty of planning for the proper use, conservation, and development of the nat- ural resources of the Tennessee River drainage basin and its adjoining territory for the general social and economic welfare of the Nation. The Tennessee Valley Authority Act, enacted shortly there- after, provides for creation of a government corporation for the purpose of "maintaining and operating the properties of the United States at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in the interests of national defense and for agricultural and industrial develop- ment, and to improve navigation in the Tennessee River and to control the destructive flood waters in the Tennessee River and Mississippi River Basins." **° Among other things, the Authority is empowered to con- struct such dams and reservoirs as will maintain a nine-foot channel in the Tennessee River and will best serve to pro- mote navigation and control floods.441 It is also empowered to construct, acquire, and maintain power facilities, to promote soil conservation, and stimulate fertilizer use.442 And the dustry. In short, this power development of war days leads logically to national planning for a complete river watershed involving many States and the future lives and welfare of millions. It touches and gives life to all forms of human concerns. "I, therefore, suggest to the Congress legislation to create a Tennessee Valley Authority-a corporation clothed with the power of Government but possessed of the flexibility and initiative of a private enterprise. It should be charged with the broadest duty of planning for the proper use, conserva- tion, and development of the natural resources of the Tennessee River drain- age basin and its adjoining territory for the general social and economic welfare of the Nation. This Authority should also be clothed with the necessary power to carry these plans into effect. Its duty should be the rehabilitation of the Muscle Shoals development and the coordination of it with the wider plan." Id. pp. 1-2. 440 Act of May 18, 1933, § 1, 48 Stat. 58, as amended, 16 U. S. O. 831. In connection with the constitutional aspects of this legislation, see Swidler and Marquis, TV A in Court: A Study of TVA's Constitutional Litigation, 32 Iowa L. Rev. 296 (1947). 441 § 4, 48 Stat. 60, as amended, 16 U. S. C. 831c(j). 442 § 5, 48 Stat. 61, as amended, 16 U. S. C. 831d; § 9a, as added by Act of August 81, 1935, § 5, 49 Stat. 1075, 1076, 16 U, S, C. 831h-l; § 10, 48 Stat. 64, as amended, 16 TJ. S. C. 8311, |