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418 stantial benefit to navigation will be realized therefrom and which can be operated consistently with appropriate and economic use of the waters of such rivers by other users. As a means of implementing this policy, the Act contained certain requirements for interchange of views between the Army Engineers, the Department of the Interior, and the af- fected states.137 It again delineated the flood-control jurisdic- tions of the Army Engineers and the Department of Agricul- ture; and it provided for recreation development, for disposal of surplus power and water, for irrigation works at Army proj- ects, and for Army regulation of use of storage allocated to flood control and navigation at all reservoirs constructed with federal funds, with a qualified exception as to flood control in the case of TVA reservoirs.188 Notwithstanding this policy re- specting "comprehensive and coordinated development," Con- gress in 1950 approved the Army Engineer portion of the Columbia Basin coordinated plan, but tabled the Bureau of Reclamation portion of the same plan.139 Reclamation Projects.--In the Reclamation Project Act of 1939, Congress incorporated provisions expressly recogniz- ing the multiple-use possibilities of reclamation projects. In addition to irrigation, cognizance was there taken of other uses including power, flood control, navigation, and "municipal water supply or other miscellaneous purposes." 14° While recognition of some of these purposes had appeared in earlier reclamation legislation, the 1939 Act for the first time made provision for allocations by the Secretary of the Interior of a part of the project costs to flood control or navigation.141 To this end, the Act provides for his consultation with the Chief of Engineers and the Secretary of the Army.142 Later, "the preser- 137 Act of December 22, 1944, § 1, 58 Stat. 887. See supra, pp. 96-97. 138 § 2, 58 Stat. 889, 33 U. S. C. 701a-l; § 4, 58 Stat. 889, 16 U. S. 0. 460d; § 5, 58 Stat. 890, 16 U. S. 0. 825s; § 6, 58 Stat. 890, 33 U. S. C. 708; § 7, 58 Stat. 890, 33 U. S. 0. 709 ; § 8, 58 Stat. 891, 43 U. S. C. 390. * 189 Act of May 17, 1950, § 204, 64 Stat. 163, -. See infra, pp. 464-466. 140 Act of August 4, 1939, § 9(a), 53 Stat. 1187, 1193, 43 U. S. O. 485h(a). m § 9b, 53 Stat. 1194,43 U. S. 0. 485h (b) ; see supra, p. 195.

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