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Show 324 as miscellaneous receipts. Moreover, since 1944, all River and Harbor and all Flood Control Acts have provided that use for navigation, in connection with operation and maintenance of works therein authorized for construction, of waters arising in states lying wholly or partly west of the ninety-eighth me- ridian shall be only such use as does not conflict with any bene- ficial consumptive use, present or future, in states lying wholly or partly west of the ninety-eighth meridian, of such waters for domestic, municipal, stock-water, irrigation, mining, or industrial purposes.38 FPC Licensed Projects.-In discussing the Federal Power Act, we pointed out that the project adopted must be best adapted to a comprehensive plan for improving or developing the waterway for commerce, for power, and "for other bene- ficial public uses." 39 Pursuant to this requirement, provision has been made against interference with water supply.40 Also relevant here is the Act's prohibition against interference with state laws relating to "control, appropriation, use or distribu- tion of water used in irrigation or for municipal or other uses, or any vested right acquired therein."41 Stock Watering.-Provision of water supply for stock- watering purposes is authorized by the Taylor Grazing Act. It empowers the Secretary of the Interior to issue permits and approve cooperative arrangements for the construction of "fences, wells, reservoirs, and other improvements necessary to the care and management of the permitted livestock." ** Additional provision is made for water supply for stock watering on public lands. Such lands containing "water holes or other bodies of water needed or used by the public for 88 See, e. g., Act of December 22, 1944, § l(b), 58 Stat. 887, 889; Act of March 2, 1945, § l(b), 59 Stat. 10,11. 38 See supra, p. 275. 40 See Great Northern Power Company, Project 1105, Thirteenth Annual Report, Federal Power Commission, pp. 302, 304 (1933), and final order, Fourteenth Annual Report, Federal Power Commission, p. 118 (1934) in which the Federal Power Commission denied the license. 41 See supra, p. 276. 42 Act of June 28, 1934, § 4, 48 Stat. 1269, 1271, 43 U. S. C. 315c. |