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Show 269 the Commission recommended that future plans take account of all uses and benefits, and that federal agencies cooperate with states and local entities and individuals "with a view to an equitable distribution of costs and benefits." 51 Similarly, the 1909 Report of the National Conservation Commission pointed out the need for development of power in coordination with other uses "to reduce the drain on other resources" and to aid in controlling streams for navigation and other uses.52 Likewise, the 1910 Preliminary Report of the National Waterways Commission, composed of 12 members of Congress, emphasized the need for consideration of multiple uses in planning navigation improvements, recommending "greatest care in the conservation of water power for the use of the people." 53 And its Final Report in 1912 noted the in- crease in practicability of flood-control reservoirs when associ- ated with the development of power and aid to navigation, and that reasonable charges should be assessed for grant of the "special privilege" for development of water power.54 It also asserted that there can be no doubt "that the authority of Congress reaches to the remotest sources in the mountains of every navigable stream." 55 In that same year, a Senate sub- committee forcefully reported on the Government's "un- doubted" right to generate power at a navigation dam, and to "lease or sell such power on such terms and for such compen- sation as it may deem just." 56 61 Id. pp. 22-23, 25. 62 Sen. Doc. No. 676, 60th Cong., 2d sess., vol. 1, p. 24 (1909). 63 See Final Report of the National Waterways Commission, Sen. Doc. No. 469, 62d Cong., 2d sess., App. I, p. 85 (1912). This document contains an informative collection of federal water-power legislation prior to 1912. Id. App. VIII, pp. 323-454. 64/d. pp. 27, 61. K Id. p. 47. Strangely enough, the report elsewhere concluded that there is no federal authority to engage in works intended primarily for flood prevention or power development. Id. p. 27. 88 Power of the Fedebal Government Over The Development and Use of Water Power, Sen. Doc. No. 246, 64th Cong., 1st sess., pp. 17-18 (1916). See also 48 Cong. Rec. 11568-11577 (1912). For other relevant reports of this period, see Report on Water Power Development in the United States, Commissioner of Corporations (1912) ; Limitation of Federal Con- trol of Water Powers, Sen. Doc. No. 721 62d Cong., 2d sess. (1912) |