The Southeastern Power Administration is a United States Power Marketing Administration with responsibility for marketing hydroelectric power from 22 water projects operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the states of West Virginia , Virginia , North Carolina , South Carolina , Georgia , Florida , Alabama , Mississippi , Tennessee and Kentucky .
6-1078: Southeastern was created in 1950 by the Secretary of the Interior to carry out functions assigned to the Secretary by the Flood Control Act of 1944 . In 1977, it was transferred to the United States Department of Energy when that department was created. The agency is headquartered in Elberton, Georgia . It markets electric power to nearly 500 wholesale customers, including electrical cooperatives , government-operated electric distributors and investor-owned utilities in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, and southern Illinois . The objectives of Southeastern are to market electric power and energy generated by
12-709: A substantial impact in the Western United States , the secretary of the interior has typically come from a western state; only one secretary since 1949, Rogers Morton , was not a resident or native of a state lying west of the Mississippi River . Secretary of the Interior is a Level I position in the Executive Schedule , thus earning a salary of US$ 246,400, as of January 2024. Following Senate confirmation in March 2021, former U.S. representative Deb Haaland
18-499: The Corps projects at the lowest possible cost to consumers, while recovering the Federal government's costs. Public bodies and cooperatives receive preference in the sale of power. One of the agency's main responsibilities is to design, formulate, and justify rate schedules that are sufficient to repay the Federal government's costs for power production and transmission, including amortization of
24-500: The Federal investment. Southeastern does not own transmission facilities and must contract with other utilities to provide transmission . Southeastern's annual revenue from the sale of hydroelectric power is about US$ 200 million, as of 2009. Mobile District Nashville District Savannah District Wilmington District United States Secretary of the Interior The United States Secretary of
30-668: The Interior is the head of the United States Department of the Interior . The secretary and the Department of the Interior are responsible for the management and conservation of most federal land along with natural resources , leading such agencies as the Bureau of Land Management , the United States Geological Survey , Bureau of Indian Affairs and the National Park Service . The secretary also serves on and appoints
36-597: The private citizens on the National Park Foundation Board. The secretary is a member of the United States Cabinet and reports to the president of the United States . The function of the U.S. Department of the Interior is different from that of the interior minister designated in many other countries. As the policies and activities of the Department of the Interior and many of its agencies have
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