---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 831o"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "831o"
heading: "Completion of unfinished plants authorized"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/831o"
units:
  - "Chapter 12A — Tennessee Valley Authority"
---

# §831o. Completion of unfinished plants authorized


The Board, whenever the President deems it advisable, is empowered and directed to complete Dam Numbered 2 at Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and the steam plant at nitrate plant numbered 2, in the vicinity of Muscle Shoals, by installing in Dam Numbered 2 the additional power [units](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) according to the plans and specifications of said dam, and the additional power [unit](/usc/16/430f–7.md?p=4) in the steam plant at nitrate plant numbered 2.


## Source credit

(May 18, 1933, ch. 32, § 16, 48 Stat. 67; Pub. L. 108–447, div. C, title VI, § 603(a)(2), Dec. 8, 2004, 118 Stat. 2966.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2004—Pub. L. 108–447 substituted “Board” for “board”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2004 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 108–447 effective on the later of the date on which at least three persons nominated under section 604(a) of Pub. L. 108–447 take office or May 18, 2005, see section 604(b) of Pub. L. 108–447, set out in an Appointments; Effective Date; Transition note under section 831a of this title.