Executive Order 8599—Transferring the Use, Possession, and Control of Certain Property to the Tennessee Valley Authority

MISSISSIPPI Whereas certain electric transmission facilities and substation facilities constructed by the War Department for use in connection with the construction of the Sardis Dam in Panola County, Mississippi, are no longer needed by the War Department; and Whereas it appears that the use, possession, and control of the said facilities, and certain easements and rights-of-way necessary to the use thereof or incidental thereto, are needed by the Tennessee Valley Authority for its purposes as stated in the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 (48 Stat. 58): Now, Therefore , by virtue of the authority vested in me by section 7 of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 (48 Stat. 63), it is ordered as follows: 1. There are hereby transferred to the Tennessee Valley Authority the use, possession, and control of certain electric transmission facilities in Lafayette, Panola, and Pontotoc Counties, Mississippi, and certain substation facilities in Panola County, Mississippi, such facilities being more particularly described as follows: (a) The three-phase, H-frame wood pole, 44,000-volt transmission line beginning at the 44-kv substation under the control of and operated by Tennessee Valley Authority at Pontotoc, Pontotoc County, Mississippi, and extending in a slightly northwesterly direction, south of the community of Thaxton and north of the community of Toccopola, both in Pontotoc County, Mississippi, for a distance of approximately 13.59 miles (being here and hereafter pole line miles) to the Pontotoc County-Lafayette County line, and from thence extending in a northwesterly and then westerly direction across Lafayette County, Mississippi, south of the Town of Oxford in said County, for a distance of approximately 24.56 miles to the Lafayette County-Panola County line and from thence continuing in a slightly northwesterly direction and terminating, after a total distance of approximately 45.72 miles, at the substation described in paragraph 2 hereof which is located on property of the United States now under the control of the War Department near the Sardis Dam in Panola County, Mississippi, including all poles, towers, structures, anchors and guys, crossarms, pole hardware and fixtures, insulators, cables, conductors, wires, and all other appurtenant fixtures, equipment, and facilities, all land easements, rights-of-way, leases, and other rights and interests in land (but excluding all land and easements and rights therein relating to property of the United States under the control of the War Department in respect of the Sardis Reservoir) and all governmental and other rights, privileges, franchises, permits, authorizations, and consents used, held for use, or acquired In connection with said transmission line. (b) The 44/13.8/4.15-kv substation, known as the Sardis Dam Substation, located on property of the United States under the control of the War Department near the Sardis Dam in Panola County, Mississippi, including the condenser and control house appurtenant thereto, the furniture and condenser room ventilating fan therein, and all circuit breakers, disconnecting switches, power transformers, auto-transformers, condenser voltage regulators, potential and current transformers, busses, cables, bus and switch structures, conduits, wiring, switchboard panels, meters, relays, controls, auxiliary apparatus, fencing, and all other appurtenant machinery, equipment, and facilities used, held for use, or acquired in connection with said substation, and further including all land, easements, rights-of-way, leases, and other rights and interests in land (but excluding all land and easements and rights therein relating to property of the United States under the control of the War Department in respect of the Sardis Reservoir) and all governmental and other rights, privileges, franchises, permits, authorizations, and consents used, held for use, or acquired in connection with said substation. 2. There are hereby transferred to the Tennessee Valley Authority such easements, rights-of-way, and other rights, including rights of ingress and egress over lands of the United States under the control of the War Department in respect of the Sardis Reservoir, as may be required by the Tennessee Valley Authority for the construction, operation, and maintenance of additional transmission facilities or additional substation equipment and facilities as will not interfere with the operations of the United States acting through the War Department or with the operation of any other agency of the United States which may be lawfully utilizing such property in conjunction with the activities of the War Department. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT The White House, November 18, 1940.