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Show 240 ered into the Reclamation Fund, no requirement is specified as to rates.524 Preference is provided to "municipal pur- poses." 525 No lease may impair the "efficiency of the irriga- tion project." 626 Under the 1939 Act, power sales and leases must provide preference "to municipalities and other public corporations or agencies; and also to cooperatives and other nonprofit organi- zations" financed by REA loans.527 No power contract may be made if the Secretary deems it will "impair the efficiency of the project for irrigation purposes."528 It may be noted, in- cidentally, that this latter provision obtains with respect to contracts under the 1939 Act for the furnishing of water for municipal water supply or miscellaneous purposes.529 There is no blanket provision under Reclamation Law for the construction or acquisition of transmission lines. In re- peated instances in appropriation legislation, however, Con- gress has expressly recognized that transmission facilities con- stitute parts of reclamation projects authorized by Congress.630 Flood Control and Navigation.-As earlier noted, the 1939 Act authorizes allocations for flood control or navigation.531 In the event of such an allocation, the Act requires that the Secretary of the Interior operate the project for the purpose of flood control or navigation, to the extent justified by such allocation.532 However, since 1944 the Secretary of the Army has had the duty of prescribing regulations for the use of stor- age allocated to flood control or navigation at all reservoir projects constructed wholly or in part with federal funds pro- vided on the basis of such purposes, and the operation of proj- ects must accord with those regulations.533 825 Id. ™Id. 627 Act of August 4,1939, § 9(c), 53 Stat. 1187, 1194, 43 U. S. 0. 485b. (c). 828 Id. ™Id. 830 See, e. g., Act of June 29, 1948, 62 Stat. 1112, 1126, 1128; Act of October 12,1949, 63 Stat. 765. 631 See supra, p. 195. 632 § 9(b), 53 Stat. 1194, 43 U. S. C. 485b.(b). 833 Act of December 22, 1944, § 7, 58 Stat. 887, 890, 33 U. S. O. 709. |