Subject: 21765/SupportFundsForTVA/ChickamaugaLock
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 08:25:12 -0500


                              RESOLUTION NO. 21765
                
                
                 A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE CONTINUATION OF
                 APPROPRIATED FUND PROGRAMS FOR THE TENNESSEE
                 VALLEY AUTHORITY.
                
                
                                                    
                
                
       	    	 WHEREAS, the Chattanooga City Council has previously
       approved Resolution No. 21410 (adopted June 10, 1997) supporting
       the building of a new Chickamauga Lock and encouraging the TVA's
       Congressional Caucus and Congress to act in favor of moving
       forward with detailed engineering studies and funding for the
       replacement of the lock; and
       	    	 WHEREAS, the President has submitted a budget to
       Congress which contains a proposed appropriated fund budget for
       TVA and which includes funds to begin detailed engineering 
studies
       for the replacement of the Chickamauga Lock; and
       	    	 WHEREAS, the U.S. House of Representatives, through the
       Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, has invited written 

       testimony on the proposed budget as it relates to TVA; and
       	    	 WHEREAS, the loss of appropriated fund programs for TVA
       would have significant immediate and long term adverse impact on
       the Tennessee Valley region; and
       	    	 WHEREAS, the TVA Retirees Association, representing
       approximately 3,400 retirees in the Chattanooga area, has gone on 

       record in support of the continuation of appropriated fund
       programs for TVA in the current proposed budget;
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       	    	 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF
       THE CITY OF CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, That the Chattanooga City
       Council hereby expresses its support for the continuation of
       appropriated fund programs for TVA and strongly encourages
       inclusion of such funds in the current federal budget; and
       	    	 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the City Council Clerk is
       hereby directed to forward a copy of this Resolution to The
       Honorable Joseph M. McDade, Chair, House Subcommittee on Energy
       and Water Development, to each member of the TVA Congressional
       Caucus, and to all other interested parties as deemed 
appropriate.
      
       ADOPTED:	 April 28, 1998
      
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