# § 831ee. Essential stewardship activities
Public Law 104–206*Provided*16 U.S.C. 831j16 U.S.C. 831*Provided further*
For essential stewardship activities for which appropriations were provided to the Tennessee Valley Authority in , such sums as are necessary in fiscal year 1999 and thereafter, to be derived only from one or more of the following sources: nonpower fund balances and collections; investment returns of the nonpower program; applied programmatic savings in the power and nonpower programs; savings from the suspension of bonuses and awards; savings from reductions in memberships and contributions; increases in collections resulting from nonpower activities, including user fees; or increases in charges to private and public utilities both investor and cooperatively owned, as well as to direct load customers: , That such funds are available to fund the stewardship activities under this section, notwithstanding sections 11, 14, 15, 29 [, 831m, 831n, 831bb], or other provisions of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act [ et seq.], as amended, or provisions of the TVA power bond covenants: , That the savings from, and revenue adjustments to, the TVA budget in fiscal year 1999 and thereafter shall be sufficient to fund the aforementioned stewardship activities such that the net spending authority and resulting outlays for these activities shall not exceed $0 in fiscal year 1999 and thereafter.
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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 105–62, title IV, Oct. 13, 1997, 111 Stat. 1338.)
## Editorial Notes
### References in Text
, referred to in text, is , , , known as the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1997. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.
The Tennessee Valley Authority Act, referred to in text, probably means the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933, , , which is classified generally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see and Tables.
### Codification
Section was enacted as part of the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1998, and not as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 which comprises this chapter.