Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§831dd Liberal Construction of Chapter; Sale of Surplus Lands
Title 16 › CHAPTER 12A — TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY › § 831dd
Summary
Apply the chapter broadly so the Authority can manage government property and make rules that help national defense, improve navigation, control floods, support interstate commerce, and serve the public welfare. Only land the Board believes is needed for approved plans may be kept. Any land the Authority bought but does not need must be sold by the Authority as agent of the United States, after public notice, at public auction to the highest bidder.
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Title 16, §831dd
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This chapter shall be liberally construed to carry out the purposes of Congress to provide for the disposition of and make needful rules and regulations respecting Government properties entrusted to the Authority, provide for the national defense, improve navigation, control destructive floods, and promote interstate commerce and the general welfare, but no real estate shall be held except what is necessary in the opinion of the Board to carry out plans and projects actually decided upon requiring the use of such land: Provided, That any land purchased by the Authority and not necessary to carry out plans and projects actually decided upon shall be sold by the Authority as agent of the United States, after due advertisement, at public auction to the highest bidder.
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Codification As originally enacted, the last sentence of this section contained, at the end thereof, the words “or at private sale as provided in section 3 of this amendatory Act.” section 3 of the amendatory act of Aug. 31, 1935, added subsec. (k) to section 831c of this title.
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16 U.S.C. § 831dd
Title 16, Conservation
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102