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Show investment with interest, and payments in lieu of taxes to State and local governments, as more fully explained earlier in this chapter. 3. Use of inland waterways would be free until such time as a coordinated national trans- portation system with rates based uniformly on costs of service might be established, after which a system of waterway tolls designed to reimburse the costs of providing navigation facilities would be instituted. 4. Operators of farms benefited by irrigation or drainage projects would, through irrigation or drainage districts, be assessed according to their ability to pay. These charges would be related to the annual net income of the farmers derived from the project, under a formula adjusting re- payment to production and market conditions. 5. Total program costs, reduced by the amounts allocated to water supply, power, navi- gation, and reclamation, would be regarded as having been incurred for primary and secondary private benefits not susceptible of collection by direct charges and for public benefits of local, State, and national scope. 6. The unallocated costs of each basin pro- gram would be apportioned among primary benefits not directly collectible, secondary bene- fits, and general welfare benefits by agreement between the basin commissions and the interested States. This agreement would also include an allotment between the States of responsibility for securing reimbursement for primary benefits not otherwise reimbursed and secondary benefits, such allotment to be based on the incidence of such benefits. These allotments might be made in terms of percentages of annual program costs, subject to periodic review. The States would agree to arrange for repayment of such allot- ments. The balance would be considered as rep- resenting general welfare on nonreimbursable benefits properly paid by the Federal Govern- ment. |