Tennessee Attraction
TVA: Land and Shorelines
The river system has 11,000 miles of public shoreline, and under Section 26a of the TVA Act, TVA has the authority to regulate land use and development along that shoreline. Access to the resources of the Tennessee River system will remain a valuable attraction only as long as those resources are properly managed and protected ... [Read More]
ATDD ETOS Program Description
The summers of the 1990s produced interesting headlines in the local press (Knoxville News Sentinel). Headlines ranged from " Air Quality at Clingman's D ome hits Danger Level " to" Smoky's Air Quality Setting Worst Records ". During the summer of 1998, air-monitoring stations in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park recorded the highest-ever eight-hour average ozone exposures. By late August, the National Park Service reported the 25th day of unhealthy ozone conditions for 1998. For the summer of 1999, the National Park Service reported the highest number of days (53) in the Great Smoky Mountain park which exceeded the new US EPA 8-hour ozone standard. The above split photograph was obtained from the U.S. EPA's WINHAZE system to illustrate the relative difference between "best" and "worst" days for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Tennessee's biggest tourist attraction). ... [Read More]
Morgan County -- Congressman Zach Wamp Representing Tennessee's 3rd Congressional District
Frozen Head State Park is a key attraction in Morgan County. Located in the beautiful Cumberland Mountains of Tennessee near Wartburg, the 11,869 acres of forest contain some of the most abundant wildflower areas in Tennessee. One of Tennessee's most scenic parks, Frozen Head boasts 50 miles of challenging hiking trails, passing by waterfalls, rock shelters and giant mountain-top cap rocks. ... For more information about these attractions, surf the web at http://thesmokies.com/features/places/frozen_head/frozenhead.htm or http://www.nps.gov/biso/rugby.htm . ... [Read More]
Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County-Metro Clerk
-- (Adopted 11/16/2004) A resolution requesting the Governor to propose and the Davidson County Delegation to the Tennessee General Assembly to introduce and enact the necessary legislation to make Tennessee more competitive in the attraction and nurturing of the film and video industries. ... [Read More]
NTSB - Amphibious Passenger Vessel Safety
Amphibious Passenger Vessels carry more than 1 million tourists a yearnationwide. These vessels were originally built for land and seamilitary logistical purposes. Today’s family of tour amphibians includesconversions of the World War II DUKW, the 1960s LARC, and the British AlvisStalwart. Tour excursions on land and water in one vehicle have becomea popular tourist attraction in the United States. ... [Read More]
Disney Agreement Fact Sheet
Disney is installing existing captioningtechnologyand may be developing other technology in the future. Guests mayrequestauxiliary aids for captioning at any performance or attractionwithout advancenotice by asking Disney personnel at the entrance to a particularattraction.Some attractions are already captioned and many others will becaptionedby December 31, 1997. ... Oral and sign language interpreters willbe providedat three major Walt Disney World parks -- Magic Kingdom, EpcotCenter, andDisney-MGM Studios -- and Disneyland on a regularly scheduledbasis. Interpreterswill be available at shows, performances, and some movingattractions, ona daily schedule at one of the three Walt Disney World parks eachday. Daysscheduled for interpreting will rotate around the three parks, sothat interpreterswill be available at each park on certain days each week. On theday thatinterpreters are scheduled at a park, Disney schedules willpermit guestswho are deaf and hard of hearing to attend all, or nearly all, ofthe interpretedattractions at that park in a single day. Some Disney attractionsare alreadybeing interpreted; interpreters will be added at many others nolater thanMarch 1, 1997 at Walt Disney World, and no later than December31, 1997at Disneyland. ... [Read More]
TVA: The Great Electric Tent Show Revival and Jubilee
Then Rice and his helpers would roll out the main attraction: a demonstration of the wonders of electricity for the benefit of people who didn’t know what it could be used for. ... [Read More]
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