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Show 466 ects would be kept on a region-wide basis.838 Also, all power costs and all reimbursements to be received from power reve- nues would be kept on a consolidated basis.339 The Commit- tee asserted that there are two alternatives to such an account:340 One is to have a heterogeneous collection of power rates, one rate for each project, even though the power would be marketed through one transmission system result- ing in confusion and competition among Federal proj- ects. The second choice is to establish a uniform rate at the level consistent with the highest-cost power proj- ect, an undesirable and unequitable procedure. But the Senate tabled the Interior and Insular Affairs Com- mittee amendment, as well as subsequent amendments which would have provided for a "Basin account" for reclamation projects only.341 The debate in the Senate suggests that, in its effect upon comprehensive development of water resources, the distribution of jurisdiction among legislative committees is at times like the distribution of jurisdiction among agencies of the executive branch.342 The President signed the Bill but urged the early authoriza- tion of the missing pieces of the coordinated plan.348 Delaware River Basin.-A considerably different pattern of development exists in the Delaware River Basin. Here certain basin activities are being promoted by an interstate commission known as Incodel. In 1923, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, each 838 Sen. Rep. No. 1351, 81st Cong., 2d sess., pp. 7, 26-28 (1950). A sum- mary of the legislative history of the bill and of the coordinated plan ap- pears at pp. 2-3. 338 Id. p. 7. 310 lUd. 84196 Cong. Reg. 5252, 5256, unbound ed., April 14, 1950. Controversy also arose over the "interest component" feature of the account by which in- terest on power investment may be applied to repayment of irrigation allo- cation. See also supra, p. 296. 842 90 Cong. Rec. 5086-5088 and 5127-5131, unbound ed., April 11 and 12, 1950. 343 Act of May 17,1950, 64 Stat. 163; H. Doc. No. 597, 81st Cong., 2d sess., p. 4 (1950). |