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UNITED STATES EX REL. CHAPMAN v. FEDERAL POWER COMM'N.

No. 28.

345 U.S. 153 (1953)

UNITED STATES EX REL. CHAPMAN, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, v. FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 16, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory Hankin argued the cause and filed a brief for petitioner in No. 28.

Robert Whitehead argued the cause and filed a brief for the Virginia REA Association et al., petitioners in No. 29.

Bradford Ross argued the cause for the Federal Power Commission, respondent. With him on the brief were Willard W. Gatchell, John Mason and Howard E. Wahrenbrock.

T. Justin Moore argued the cause for the Virginia Electric & Power Co., respondent. With him on the brief were George D. Gibson and Patrick A. Gibson.

Charles F. Rouse and David W. Robinson submitted on brief for the Carolina Power & Light Co., respondent.

Herbert B. Cohn submitted on brief for the Appalachian Electric Power Co., respondent.

MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

In these two cases, the Secretary of the Interior and an association of nonprofit rural electric cooperatives have challenged the authority of the Federal Power Commission to grant to the respondent power company, VEPCO, a license to construct a hydroelectric generating station at Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina. They claim that Congress, by approving a comprehensive plan set out in the Flood Control Act of...

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