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Show 518 foregoing criteria is specified for irrigation projects under the 1939 Reclamation Project Act-a repayment standard. That Act requires findings as to the engineering feasibility; esti- mated costs; and the parts thereof properly allocable to irri- gation, power, and municipal water supply and other miscel- laneous purposes.132 Allocations are separate for the part of the estimated cost which can properly be allocated to irri- gation and "probably be repaid by the water users"; and of the parts allocable to power and to municipal water supply and other miscellaneous purposes, which can "probably be re- turned to the United States."183 Provision is made by the 1939 Act for nonreimbursable al- locations to flood control and navigation, and by a 1946 statute for a like allocation to the preservation and propagation of fish and wildlife.134 If the project be found by the Secretary to have engineer- ing feasibility, and if the "repayable and returnable alloca- tions," together with any nonreimbursable allocations, equal the total estimated project costs, the project is deemed author- ized and may be undertaken after submission of the report and findings to the President and the Congress.185 Otherwise, or if adverse comments have been received from an affected state or the Secretary of the Army, the project may be undertaken only if authorized by act of Congress.186 Benefits and Costs.-With, considerable variations, the fore- going standards contemplate some examination of relative ben- efits and costs of the projects and activities proposed. More- 182 Act of August 4, 1939, § 9(a), 53 Stat 1187, 1193, 43 U. S. 0. 485h(a). For the full text of this provision and a discussion of earlier statutes, see supra, pp. 193-195. With this standard, compare the provision for authorization of water- conservation and utilization projects, prescribing a modified repayment standard allowing for the use of relief and other funds for the costs which cannot be repaid. Act of October 14, 1940, §3, 54 Stat. 1119, 1120, as amended, 16 U. S. C. 590z-l. MJ § 9(a), 53 Stat. 1193, 43 U. S. C. 485h(a). 1U § 9(b), 53 Stat. 1187, 1194, 43 U. S. C. 485h(b) ; Act of August 14, 1946, § 2, 60 Stat. 1080, as amended, 16 U. S. C. 662. "" § 9(a), 53 Stat. 1187,1193, 43 U. S. O. 485h(a). 136 Id.; Act of December 22,1944, § 1 (c), 58 Stat. 887,889. |
