TVA that have not been or are not being conducted by other
agencies all over the country and which have been conducted by Federal
agencies for many, many years. The TVA has no new regulatory or coercive
functions. As a matter of fact, the TVA has no coercive functions. It
has no new or unique or different governmental functions. There is only
one thing that is different about TVA, and that is the way in which it
approaches the job of resource use on an overall basis.

Now, I might illustrate that by referring to the construction of dams
and reservoirs. In the Tennessee Valley the TVA builds dams and
reservoirs to prevent floods, to produce a navigable channel, to produce
power, and in its reservoirs it also has the responsibility of
achieving the best uses of reservoirs and reservoir lands in the
interests of fish and wild life, in the interests of recreation, and in
the interests of malaria control.

Now, the unique fact here is not that these things are going on or being
done, at least in part, through a Federal agency, but that one Federal
agency is responsible for achieving a balance between all of these
activities and with the administrative responsibility for doing that. In
other efforts the situation is different, with as many as eight agencies
having something to do with the development of some one of these
activities in a way which might or might not be integrated.

Now, the second illustration, I think, is that unity can be accomplished
only if all of the agencies which are concerned with the use of
resources have an environment in which they can work effectively. The
Federal Government is not and should not in the Tennessee Valley be
developing all of these resources itself. It feels that the unified
development of the resources depends upon the participation of the
people of the Tennessee Valley and their institutions, the local and the
state agencies. There can't be unity any more if local agencies are
conducting one program and a Federal agency conducting another program,
than there can be if several Federal agencies are conducting several
programs.

Consequently, the Tennessee Valley Authority, except for the operation
of these huge new facilities which have been added to the resources of
the Tennessee Valley, conducts its activities in collaboration with
local and state agencies. That not only avoids the expense of
duplication, but it achieves the collaboration, the participation, the
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