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House Moves To Cut TVa Funding

From Staff And Wire Reports

A House panel moved Friday toward cutting off all federal money for the Tennessee Valley Authority next year, telling the agency it should plan “for its immediate downsizing and eventual elimination.”

The Appropriations subcommittee on energy and water voted to accelerate by a year TVA Chairman Craven Crowell’s proposal to eliminate TVA’s $106 million annual federal appropriation for conservation and economic development programs after fiscal 1998.

“It’s lights out for the TVA,” said Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen, R-N.J., a member of the subcommittee.