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Show 274 Federal Power Act, which added provisions for the regulation of electric utilities engaged in interstate commerce, as well as procedural and administrative provisions for licenses and pub- lic utilities.75 It may be noted preliminarily that the total estimated cost of all major projects under Federal Power Commission license is just under one billion dollars.76 Also, of the 282,698,- 214,000 kilowatt-hours total 1948 electric generation in the United States, 82,469,742,000 kilowatt-hours, or approxi- mately 30 %, was generated at hydroelectric plants. Of this latter figure, nonfederal hydroelectric generation was 49,741,- 069,000 kilowatt-hours, or approximately 60%." Investigations and Surveys.-Examination of the Commis- sion's broad investigative powers and duties will aid our later consideration of its many other responsibilities. Thus, es- pecial significance attaches to its wide authority to make in- vestigations and collect data concerning the "utilization of the water resources in any region to be developed, the water-power industry and its relation to other industries and to interstate or foreign commerce, and concerning the location, capacity, development costs, and relation to markets of power sites." T8 And also whether power from federal dams can be "advan- tageously used by the United States for its public purposes," and what is a fair value of such power.79 In such investiga- tions, it may cooperate with state and federal agencies.80 The data thus collected the Commission may make public in the form and manner "best adapted for public information and use."81 Furthermore, the Commission has extensive investigative 76 Federal Power Act; Act of June 10, 1920, 41 Stat. 1063, amended by Act of August 26,1935, 49 Stat. 838, as amended, 16 U. S. O. 791a-825r. 76 Twenty-ninth Annual Report of the Federal Power Commission, p. 3 (1949). 77 Production of Electric Energy and Capacity of Generating Plants, Federal Power Commission, S-70, 1948. 78 § 4(a), 41 Stat. 1065, as amended, 16 U. S. C. 797(a). "Id. 80 § 4(c), 41 Stat. 1065,16 U. S. C. 797(c). 81 § 4(d), 49 Stat. 840, 16 U. S. C. 797(d). Originally before amendment designated § 4 (d), 41 Stat. 1065. |