Press Mention The Knoxville News-Sentinel March 8, 1997
SACE Quoted
Future role of TVA not yet well defined
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TVA Chairman Craven Crowell proposes divesting the agency of nonpower programs funded by a $106 million congressional appropriation. Stephen A. Smith, executive director of the Tennessee Valley Energy Reform Coalition, criticizes the proposal as an attempt to dodge accountability and abandon TVA's original New Deal mission of resource development and regional improvement. The article details the scope of TVA's nonpower budget and ongoing transition committee deliberations on the agency's future.
TVA has lost sight of its original mission. He says the agency is seeking to dodge congressional accountability by jettisoning nonpower programs and focusing solely on being a power company.
Stephen A. Smith
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