TVA: Regional Council Documents

Regional Council Documents:
Term One

The documents on this page relate to the first two-year term of the Regional Resource Stewardship Council.

All documents are part of the public record. Click on the name of any document below to read it. (PDF files require Adobe Acrobat Reader). Although some documents are not available here online, all the materials listed below can be viewed at the TVA Corporate Library in Knoxville.

Subcommittee recommendations
The first-term Regional Council had four subcommittees that drew up policy recommendations for the TVA Board. Read about these recommendations and the Board’s responses.

Meeting documents

Meeting 1 – March 17, 2000
Meeting 2 – May 25, 2000
Meeting 3 – June 22, 2000
Meeting 4 – July 28, 2000
Meeting 5 – September 21, 2000
Meeting 6 – November 1, 2000
Meeting 7 – January 18, 2001
Meeting 8 – March 9, 2001
Meeting 9 – May 18, 2001
Meeting 10 – August 29, 2001
Meeting 11 – October 25-26, 2001
Meeting 12 – January 31, 2002

Meeting 1

March 17, 2000, Chattanooga, Tennessee

Agenda

Transcript (PDF file, 293 kb)

Mailing 1 (Letter dated February 17, 2000)
Letter of welcome to Regional Council members
RRSC news release
Media Q&A (PDF)
Council members’ nominating agencies and affiliations (PDF)
Contact information on Council members and associated TVA staff
Biographical information on Council members
Meeting planning form (PDF)
Emergency information sheet (PDF)
Cover sheet for information packet
Request to publish RRSC meeting notice in Federal Register

Mailing 2 (Letter dated February 25, 2000)
Letter to Council members from Kate Jackson
Questionnaire to Council members
The TVA Act
River Neighbors
TVA’s Annual Cycle for Operating Reservoirs (PDF)

Library materials: Videotape and brochure, “The Tennessee Valley Watershed”

Mailing 3 (Letter dated March 14, 2000)
Agenda
1999 TVA Annual Report

Mailing 4 (E-mail dated March 14, 2000)
E-mail message to Council members
Letter to Council members from Council Chair
Agenda
Biographical sketch of William L. Robertson
Biographical sketch of James L. Creighton

Documents Provided at Meeting 1
The following materials were provided to the public and to Council members at the meeting.

Public handouts:
Proposed procedures and guidelines
Summary of questionnaire results (PDF)
Agenda and Biographical information on Council members

Council members’ meeting notebooks:
Biographical sketch of Kate Jackson
Team exercise instructions (PDF)
TVA report to GAO on future study of lake levels (PDF)
Reports of the National Recreation Lakes Study Commission

Materials available at the TVA library
“Tennessee River and Reservoir System Operation and Planning Review,” Final Environmental Impact Statement, Tennessee Valley Authority, 1990

“Economic and Fiscal Consequences of TVA’s Drawdown of Cherokee and Douglas Lakes,” A Contract Completion Report prepared for Land Owners and Users of Douglas Lake (LOUD) by the Center for Business and Economic Research, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville

“Economic Value and Impacts of Outdoor Recreation at Western North Carolina Lakes Under Different Management Alternatives,” final report by the U.S. Forest Service, Southeastern Forest Experiment Station, and Outdoor Recreation and Wilderness Assessment Group, May 1990

Information about the TVA Corporate Library