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Show 285 public lands and national forests, to the Reclamation Fund;151 (c) 371/2% of charges for use of public lands and national forests to the state in which such lands are located; and (d) 50% of charges from all other licenses, to a "special fund" for expenditure under the direction of the Secretary of the Army in the maintenance and operation of federal navigation struc- tures or "in the construction, maintenance, or operation of headwater or other improvements of navigable waters."152 It is apparent that this distribution provision involves some mathematical confusion.153 Rates and Services.-Part I of the Act provides for regula- tion of services and securities of public-service licensees in some circumstances by states, and in others by the Commission.154 Provisions are likewise included in Part I for regulation of both intrastate and interstate rates, it being stipulated that the latter must be just, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory.155 The interstate rate standard thus provided is in almost iden- tical words the same as that to be applied under the 1935 provisions of Part II in fixing the interstate wholesale rate of an interstate electric "public utility," as defined in that Part, except as we mention below.156 A licensee coming within the definition of a "public utility" is not exempted from regulation under Part II.157 The Supreme Court has con- strued a rate standard substantially identical with the one involved here to free regulatory commissions from adherence to any particular formula in rate regulation.158 The rate pro- visions of Part II are applicable only to interstate wholesale rates, while the interstate rate provisions of Part I are not limited to wholesale rates. The sole rate-base difference be- 161 See supra, pp. 198-202. 162 § 17, 41 Stat. 1072, as amended, 16 U. S. O. 810. 168 In this connection, see 1 Comp. Gen. 49 (1921). 161 § 19, 41 Stat. 1073,16 U. S. C. 812 ; § 20, 41 Stat. 1073,16 U. S. C. 813. 1BS Id.; infra, p. 288. See Safe Harbor Water Power Corp. v. Federal Power Commission, 179 F. 2d 179 (O. A. 3, 1949), cert, den., 339 U. S. 957 (1950). 1M179 F. 2d 186-187. 187179 F. 2d 184-185. 188 Federal Power Commission v. Hope Natural Gas Co., 320 U. S. 591, 602 (1944). |