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Show 86 fully be operated in the public interest, the Secretary of Com- merce may extend the service of the Corporation to such tributary or connecting waterway as soon as suitable facilities are available.70 Congress expressly declared its policy to continue the service of the Corporation until: (1) completion of navigable channels, as authorized by Congress, adequate for reasonably dependable and regular transportation service in the rivers where the Cor- poration operates; (2) provision of terminal facilities reason- ably adequate for joint rail and water service; (3) publication and filing of such joint tariffs with rail carriers as to make available joint rail and water transportation upon fair terms to both rail and water carriers; and (4) private entities engage or are ready and willing to engage in common-carrier service.71 In providing for the sale or lease of the facilities of the Cor- poration after the foregoing conditions have been satisfied, Congress specified that they should not be sold or leased (1) to a carrier by rail or anyone connected with such carrier, or (2) to anyone not giving satisfactory assurance that the facili- ties will be continued in common-carrier service substantially like that rendered by the Corporation, or (3) until the same have been appraised and the fair value thereof ascertained by the Interstate Commerce Commission and reported to the Presi- dent, and the sale or lease thereof has been approved by the President.72 The 1939 Reorganization Plan No. II transferred the Inland Waterways Corporation to the Department of Commerce where it functions under the supervision and direction of the Secre- tary.78 Statistics.-Congress has made provision respecting certain relevant statistical information. The collection of statistics on water-borne domestic commerce and their publication in Annual Reports of the Chief of Engineers is governed by vari- nid. n § 3, 43 Stat. 361, as amended, 49 U. S. G. 153 (c). ™ § 3,43 Stat. 361, as amended, 49 U. S. C. 153 (d). "Reorganization Plan No. 2, § 6, effective July 1, 1939, 53 Stat. 1431, 5 U. S. C. 133t note following. |