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Show 299 erence for public bodies and cooperatives.236 In 1944, Congress prescribed generally that, in the marketing of power generated at reservoir projects under control of the Secretary of the Army, preference "shall be given to public bodies and cooperatives." 237 Likewise, in the case of reclamation projects, preference "shall be given to municipalities and other public corporations or agencies; and also to cooperatives and other nonprofit organi- zations" financed in whole or in part by REA loans.238 Similar provisions apply at specific projects and in prescribed areas, as we shall shortly see.239 888 For example, in lease of power from irrigation projects, preference to "municipal purposes" (Act of April 16,1906, § 5,34 Stat. 116,117, as amended, 43 U. S. C. 522) ; San Francisco prohibited from selling or letting the right to sell or sublet water stored on national park land or the energy therefrom to anyone "except a municipality or a municipal water district or irrigation district" (Act of December 19, 1913, § 6, 38 Stat. 241, 245) ; FPC to "give preference to applications * * * by states and municipalities" for per- mits and licenses for power projects, "municipality" being defined to include a "city, county, irrigation district, drainage district, or other political sub- division or agency of a state" competent to develop, utilize, or distribute power (Act of June 10, 1920, §§ 3, 7, 41 Stat. 1063, 1067, as amended, 16 U. S. G. 796(7), 800) ; contracts for use of energy from Hoover Dam to be let "in conformity with the policy expressed in the Federal Water Power Act as to conflicting applications," with specified exceptions (Act of Decem- ber 21, 1928, § 5(c), 45 Stat. 1057, 1060, 43 U. S. O. 617d(c)) ; in sale of power from TVA projects, preference to "states, counties, municipalities, and cooperative organizations of citizens or farmers" not doing business for profit but organized primarily for purpose of supplying electricity to their members (Act of May 18, 1933, § 10, 48 Stat. 58, 64, as amended, 16 U. S. O. 831i) ; in making REA loans, preference to "States, Territories, and subdivisions and agencies thereof, municipalities, peoples utility dis- tricts, and cooperative, nonprofit, or limited dividend associations" (Act of May 20, 1936, § 4, 49 Stat. 1363, 1365, as amended, 7 U. S. C. 904) ; in disposing of Bonneville Project energy, "preference and priority to public bodies and cooperatives" (Act of August 20, 1937, § 4a, 50 Stat. 731, 733, 16 U. S. C. 832c(a)) ; in disposing of Fort Peck Project energy, "preference and priority to public bodies and cooperatives" (Act of May 18, 1938, § 4, 52 Stat. 403, 405, 16 U. S. O. 833c) ; preference prescribed for sale of power from projects constructed pursuant to Water Conservation and Utilization Act (Act of October 14, 1940, § 9, 54 Stat. 1119, 1124, 16 U. S. C. 590z-7) ; in lease of recreation sites at Army reservoir areas, preference to "Federal, State, or local governmental agencies" (Act of December 22, 1944, § 4, 58 Stat. 887, 889,10 U. S. O. 460d). ** Act of December 22,1944, § 5, 58 Stat. 887, 890,16 U. S. C. 825s. 288 Act of August 4,1939, § 9(c), 53 Stat. 1187,1194, 43 U. S. C. 485h(c). 239 See infra, pp. 300-309. |