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Prior to the passage of the 1920 Federal Power Act, Congress had left the regulation of hydropower to the states. What if the Federal Power Act had not passed or had passed in a form where federal flood control was allowed but power generation required cooperation with state/private utilities? How would the development of hydropower and especially the Tennessee Valley Authority and Bonneville Power Administration service areas be affected (it's important to note that the Tennessee Valley Administration has been mostly coal and nuclear since the 1950s)?



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