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TVA lost its federal appropriations for power in 1959 through a congressional act and became completely self-financed in 1999.
It also started racking up debt, which in 2007 reached $24.7 billion, about 82 percent of the maximum $30 billion in debt.
Many blame that debt on TVA's overeager nuclear program from the 1970s when, at one point, TVA had plans to build 17 nuclear power plants.
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