Word: dam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This legislation was enacted after the Supreme Court upheld the Interior Department's ban on completing the Tennessee Valley Authority's Tellico Dam because it threatened the snail darter with extinction. After the newly created committee reviewed the Tellico case, and still determined that the dam should not be completed, Senator Howard Baker, (R-Tenn) wrote and passed legislation that exempted Tellico from all federal legislation. The dam's gates closed earlier this year, and the snail darter has been abandoned to its fate...