TVA was limited in the assistance they could provide to relocating families by the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933, which stated: TVA "Shall have power to advise and cooperate in the readjustment of the population displaced by the construction of dams, the acquisition of reservoir areas, the protection of watersheds, the acquisition of rights-of-way, and other necessary acquisitions of land, in order to effectuate the purposes of the Act." A "Resources Available for Population Readjustment" chart created by TVA shows that the majority of services available to citizens were through federal agencies other than TVA. The relocation problem of Mrs. Fannie Cotham is exemplative of the anger, frustration and confusion felt by many people who were told that they were going to have to move because their home was in a proposed reservoir area.