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In 1936, conservatives in Congress took advantage of the New Dealers' spending mood by expanding the Corps of Engineers' flood control program. This move helped divert support for further valley authorities.<ref>O'Neill (2002)</ref>

In 1936, conservatives in Congress took advantage of the New Dealers' spending mood by expanding the Corps of Engineers' flood control program. This move helped divert support for further valley authorities.<ref>O'Neill (2002)</ref>

Liberals proposed in the 1930s to create a grandiose Arkansas Valley Authority (AVA), patterned on the TVA, which would have contained all of the states Arkansas and Oklahoma and large parts of Missouri, Louisiana, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado. The AVA was supported by New Dealers and legislation was proposed in Congress in 1941. By now the [[Conservative Coalition]] had matters well in hand. Opposition, led by Colorado Governor Ralph Carr and including all Colorado Congressmen and Senator Alva B. Adams as well as the Southwestern Interstate Coal Operators' Association and the Denver Chamber of Commerce, helped defeat the AVA. Opposition centered on possible loss of Colorado's water rights and fear of increased Federal powers.<ref>Mary Farley, "Colorado and the Arkansas Valley Authority," ''Colorado Magazine'' 1971 48(3): 221-234</ref>  

Liberals proposed in the 1930s to create a grandiose Arkansas Valley Authority (AVA), patterned on the TVA, which would have contained all of the states Arkansas and Oklahoma and large parts of Missouri, Louisiana, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado. The AVA was supported by New Dealers and legislation was proposed in Congress in 1941. By now the [[Conservative Coalition]] had matters well in hand. Opposition, led by Colorado Governor [[Ralph Carr]] and including all Colorado Congressmen and Senator Alva B. Adams as well as the Southwestern Interstate Coal Operators' Association and the Denver Chamber of Commerce, helped defeat the AVA. Opposition centered on possible loss of Colorado's water rights and fear of increased Federal powers.<ref>Mary Farley, "Colorado and the Arkansas Valley Authority," ''Colorado Magazine'' 1971 48(3): 221-234</ref>

 

==Further reading==

==Further reading==

* Chandler, William U. ''The Myth of the TVA: Conservation and Development in the Tennessee Valley, 1933-80'' (1984), a conservative economic critique

* Chandler, William U. ''The Myth of the TVA: Conservation and Development in the Tennessee Valley, 1933-80'' (1984), a conservative economic critique