§ 831w. Acquisition of real or personal property; payment by delivery of power; sale or lease of vacant land for industrial purposes

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1933

   Pub. L. 73–32 § 24 · 48 Stat. 58

   Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 831w

   May 18, 1933, ch. 32, § 24, 48 Stat. 69

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   May 18, 1933, ch. 32, § 24, 48 Stat. 69

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 24. For the purpose of securing any rights of flowage, or Acquiring title to secure flowage rights. obtaining title to or possession of any property, real or personal, that may be necessary or may become necessary, in the carrying out of any of the provisions of this Act, the President of the United States for a period of three years from the date of the enactment of this Act, is hereby authorized to acquire title in the name of the United States to such rights or such property, and to provide for Payment provided. the payment for same by directing the board to contract to deliver power generated at any of the plants now owned or hereafter owned or constructed by the Government or by said Corporation, such future delivery of power to continue for a period not exceeding thirty years. Likewise, for one year after the enactment Sale, etc., of vacant real estate. Conditions of sale. of this Act, the President is further authorized to sell or lease any parcel or part of any vacant real estate now owned by the Government in said Tennessee River Basin, to persons, firms, or corporations who shall contract to erect thereon factories or manufacturing establishments, and who shall contract to purchase of said Corporation electric power for the operation of any such factory or manufacturing Land for Government use excluded. establishment. No contract shall be made by the President for the sale of any of such real estate as may be necessary for present or future use on the part of the Government for any of the purposes of this Act. Any such contract made by the President of Provisos. Preference right of States, etc., not abridged. the United States shall be carried out by the board: Provided, That no such contract shall be made that will in any way abridge or take away the preference right to purchase power given in this Act to States, counties, municipalities, or farm organizations: Provided further, Maximum term of lease. That no lease shall be for a term to exceed fifty years: Provided further, Sale conditional on use. That any sale shall be on condition that said land shall be used for industrial purposes only.

2. 2004

   Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2005

   Pub. L. 108–447 div. C title VI § 603(a)(2) · 118 Stat. 2809

   Substituted · 16 U.S.C. § 831w

   Pub. L. 108–447 substituted “Board” for “board” in two places

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 108–447 substituted “Board” for “board” in two places.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 603. The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for any consulting service through procurement contract, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under existing law, or under existing Executive order issued pursuant to existing law.

   Effective date note
   Amendment by Pub. L. 108–447 effective on the later of the date on which at least three persons nominated under section 604(a) of Pub. L. 108–447 take office or May 18, 2005, see section 604(b) of Pub. L. 108–447, set out in an Appointments; Effective Date; Transition note under section 831a of this title.

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