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Show 294 marketing activities, studies of power needs and resources are also conducted by the Bureau of Reclamation, Bonneville Power Administration, Southwestern Power Administration, Southeastern Power Administration, and Tennessee Valley Authority, each for its particular region.210 In addition, the National Security Resources Board has conducted power surveys.211 Rates.-By a 1944 statute, it is required that surplus power and energy generated at reservoir projects under the control of the Secretary of the Army be turned over to the Secretary of the Interior for marketing.212 Such power must be marketed so "as to encourage the most widespread use thereof at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles." While Congress has not re- quired that costs allocated to flood control and navigation be reimbursable, it has required that power-rate schedules be drawn "having regard to the recovery * * * of the cost of producing and transmitting such electric energy, including the amortization of the capital investment allocated to power over a reasonable period of years." It should also be noted that costs incurred in preparing definite planning reports, called Definite Project Reports, for authorized flood-control and navi- gation projects are included in the cost of such projects, al- 810 Bureau of Reclamation (see, e. g., Power Market Survey, Colorado Riveb Storage Project, Bureau of Reclamation, February 1949, revised 1950); Bonneville Power Administration (Department of the Interior Order No. 2115, par. 3, October 16, 1945) ; Southwestern Power Administra- tion (Department of the Interior Order No. 2135, Part II, par. 2, November 21, 1945) ; Southeastern Power Administration (Department of the Interior Order No. 2557, par. 3d(l), March 21, 1950) ; Tennessee Valley Authority (see, e. g., Hearings, Independent Offices, House Appropriations Commit- tee, January 19, 1950, pp. 984-1042; Annual Report of the Tennessee Valley Authority, p. 48,1949). 811 See, e. g., Third National Electric Power Survey, National Security Resources Board (April 1950). 212 Act of December 22, 1944, § 5, 58 Stat. 887, 890, 16 U. S. C. 825s. But Congress later expressly directed that surplus energy generated at the new hydroelectric power plant, Saint Marys River, Michigan, shall be leased by the Secretary of the Army upon such terms and conditions as he shall determine. Act of March 2,1945, § 2, 59 Stat. 10, 20. |