§983 Functions of Corporation

Summary

Gives the Corporation permission and orders it to build deep-water navigation works in U.S. waters of the Saint Lawrence River’s International Rapids. The work must follow the “Controlled single stage project, 238–242” from the joint report dated January 3, 1941, with a controlling depth of 27 feet in channels and canals, and locks at least 800 feet long, 80 feet wide, and 30 feet over the sills, plus needed dredging in the Thousand Islands. The Corporation must operate and maintain the works and coordinate with the Saint Lawrence Seaway Authority of Canada (created by chapter 24 of the acts assented to December 21, 1951). Construction cannot start unless two things happen. First, the Saint Lawrence Seaway Authority of Canada must give the Corporation acceptable assurances that Canada will finish its parts of the project (the parts authorized by section 10 of chapter 24, 1951) at about the same time. Second, the Corporation must get acceptable assurances that the State of New York, or an entity it names, or another Federal Energy Regulatory Commission licensee, together with a suitable Canadian agency, will build and complete the dams and power works approved by the International Joint Commission in its order of October 29, 1952 (docket 68) or any amendment of that order. The Corporation must make arrangements to coordinate its work with those Canadian and New York (or other licensee) entities.