Federal water power commission reorganized

The bill (S. 3619) to reorganize the Federal Power Commission became Public Law 412, 71st Congress, when President Hoover signed it on June 23. This authorizes the appointment of five full-time Commissioners to assume the duties of the old Federal Power Commission which was composed of Secretaries of War, the Interior and of Agriculture. The reorganization plans provide for an entirely independent staff in the District of Columbia, and authorizes the Commission to call upon the President for detail of engineers in the other Governmental agencies to perform the field work.