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TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY 400 West Summit Hill Drive, Knoxville, TN 37902 Phone, 615–632–2101 One Massachusetts Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20444–0001 Phone, 202–898–2999

Chairman CRAVEN CROWELL Directors JOHNNY H. HAYES WILLIAM H. KENNOY Senior Vice President, Communications ALAN CARMICHAEL Chief Operating Officer J.W. DICKEY Chief Nuclear Officer OLIVER D. KINGSLEY, JR. Chief Financial Officer DAVID N. SMITH Chief Administrative Officer NORMAN A. ZIGROSSI

The Tennessee Valley Authority conducts a unified program of resource development for the advancement of economic growth in the Tennessee Valley region. The 704 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL

Authority’s program of activities includes flood control, navigation development, electric power production, fertilizer development, recreation improvement, and forestry and wildlife development. While its power program is financially self- supporting, other programs are financed primarily by appropriations from Congress.

The Tennessee Valley Authority is a whose operation is coordinated with the wholly owned Government corporation Authority’s system. created by act of May 18, 1933 (16 In economic and community U.S.C. 831–831dd). All functions of the development programs, the Authority Authority are vested in its three-member provides technical assistance in areas Board of Directors, the members of including industrial development, which are appointed by the President regional waste management, tourism with the advice and consent of the promotion, community preparedness, Senate. The President designates one and vanpool organization. It works with member as Chairman. local communities and groups to While its electric power program is develop maximum use of available area required to be financially self-supporting, resources. Working with regional other programs are financed primarily by learning centers, businesses, and appropriations. industries, the agency has identified A system of dams built by the skills that are needed in the high- Authority on the and its technology job market and has set up larger tributaries provides flood training centers. regulation on the Tennessee and At Muscle Shoals, AL, the Authority contributes to regulation of the lower operates a national laboratory for Ohio and Rivers. The system development of new and improved maintains a continuous 9-foot-draft fertilizers and processes. Research results channel for navigation for the length of are made available to industry. Fertilizers the 650-mile Tennessee River main produced in the demonstration facilities stream, from Paducah, KY, to Knoxville, are distributed for use in research and TN. The dams harness the power of the educational programs, principally farm rivers to produce electricity. They also test demonstrations and demonstrations provide other benefits, including a major conducted through cooperative and asset for outdoor recreation. wholesale fertilizer distributors. It also The Authority operates the river conducts a major bioenergy research control system and provides assistance to program. State and local governments in reducing In cooperation with other agencies, local flood problems. It also works with the Authority conducts research and cooperating agencies to encourage full development programs in forestry, fish and effective use of the navigable and game, watershed protection, health waterway by industry and commerce. services related to its operations, and The Authority is the wholesale power economic development of Tennessee supplier for many local municipal and Valley communities. cooperative electric systems serving customers in parts of seven States. It In the western parts of and supplies power to several Federal Tennessee, the Authority operates Land installations and industries whose power Between the Lakes—a demonstration requirements are large or unusual. Power project in outdoor recreation, to meet these demands is supplied from environmental education, and natural dams, coal-fired powerplants, nuclear resource management. powerplants, combustion turbine installations, and a pumped-storage Sources of Information hydroelectric project operated by the Citizen Participation Regional Authority, U.S. Corps of Engineers dams Communications, ET PB 25H, 400 West in the Cumberland Valley; and Summit Hill Drive, Knoxville, TN Aluminum Company of America dams, 37902–1499. Phone, 615–632–8000. THRIFT DEPOSITOR PROTECTION OVERSIGHT BOARD 705

Contracts Division of Purchasing, CST 601 Summit Hill Drive, Knoxville, TN 17N 08B, P.O. Box 11127, 605 Chestnut 37902–1499 (phone, 615–632–4405). Street, Chattanooga, TN 37401–2127. Maps Maps and Surveys Department, Phone, 615–751–2624. This office will HB 2N 200A, 311 Broad Street, direct inquiries to the appropriate Chattanooga, TN 37402–2801. Phone, procurement officer. 615–751–2133. Electric Power Supply and Rates Power Medical Program Medical Services, EB Group, LP 2S 180G, 1101 Market Street, 6W 4A, 20 East Eleventh Street, Chattanooga, TN 37402–2801. Phone, Chattanooga, TN 37402–2801. Phone, 615–751–8678 or 3531. 615–751–2091. Employment Human Resources Publications Regional Services, ET 5D 93U, 400 West Summit Communications, ET PB 25H, 400 West Hill Drive, Knoxville, TN 37902–1499 Summit Hill Drive, Knoxville, TN (and personnel offices at other major 37902–1499. Phone, 615–632–8000. locations and construction projects). Phone, 615–632–3341. Recreation, Shoreline Development, Environmental and Energy Education/ Regulation of Floating Structures, and Information TVA Energy Education/ Land and Land Rights Land Resources, Information Programs, Forestry Building, Forestry Building, Ridgeway Road, Ridgeway Road, Norris, TN 37828. Norris, TN 37828. Phone, 615–632– Phone, 615–632–1599. 1802. Environmental Quality Resource Technical Library Services Technical Development, SPB 2S 201P, 309 Walnut Library, WT 2D 15B, 400 West Summit Street, Knoxville, TN 37902–1499. Hill Drive, Knoxville, TN 37902–1499 Phone, 615–632–6578. (phone, 615–632–3033); Chattanooga Fertilizer and Agriculture National Office Complex, SP 1N 30A, 1101 Fertilizer and Environmental Research Market Street, Chattanooga, TN 37402– Center, Muscle Shoals, AL 35660–1010. 2801 (phone, 615–751–4913); National Phone, 205–386–2593. Fertilizer and Environmental Research Local Economic Development and Center, Room A100, NFD 1A 100E, Regional Planning Valley Resource Muscle Shoals, AL 35660–1010 (phone, Center, OCH 2E 62E, 601 Summit Hill 205–386–2871); Land Between the Drive, Knoxville, TN 37902–1499 Lakes, 100 Van Morgan Drive, Golden (phone, 615–632–4400); Minority Pond, KY 42211–9001 (phone, 502– Economic Development, OCH E 3B 7B, 924–5602).

For further information, contact Regional Communications, Tennessee Valley Authority, 400 West Summit Hill Drive, Knoxville, TN 37902–1499 (phone, 615–632–8000); or the Washington Office, 412 First Street SE., Washington, DC 20444–2003 (phone, 202–479–4412).

THRIFT DEPOSITOR PROTECTION OVERSIGHT BOARD 808 Seventeenth Street NW., Washington, DC 20232 Phone, 202–416–2650

Chairman ROBERT E. RUBIN Board of Directors: (Secretary of the Treasury) ROBERT E. RUBIN (Chairman of the Board of Governors of the ALAN GREENSPAN Federal Reserve System) (Director, Office of Thrift Supervision) JONATHAN L. FIECHTER, Acting