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Show 406 From World War I to the "Depression" So far as concerns our survey of the evolution of the compre- hensive-development concept, four enactments during this period merit notice. First is passage of the 1920 Federal Water Power Act, the history of which encompasses many of the events of the preceding period already touched upon. Next are the provisions for the "308 Reports." More limited in scope is the third, the attention paid to multiple uses and basin-wide planning in flood-control legislation. Finally comes the 1928 authorization for the Boulder Canyon Project.73 The Federal Water Power Act of 1920.-The 20-year growth in recognition of the need for comprehensive develop- ment had its impact upon the controversy over this licensing system, designed to regularize federal permission for nonfederal power development.74 Its history and provisions we have already outlined.75 Because of their significance here, however, we shall repeat certain aspects of the license requirements included by Con- gress. For example, the 1920 Act specifically required that the project adopted be best adapted to a "comprehensive scheme of improvement and utilization for the purposes of navigation, of water-power development, and of other beneficial public uses."76 Similarly, preference among private applicants for a license depends in part upon which has plans best adapted to 73 It should also be noted that in 1920 Congress authorized the furnishing of water from reclamation projects for other purposes than irrigation, in certain cases. Act of February 25,1920, 41 Stat. 451, 43 U. S. O. 521. 74 Act of June 10,1920, 41 Stat. 1063, as amended by Act of August 26,1935, 49 Stat. 838,16 U. S. C. 791a-825r. 75 See supra, pp. 271-289. 78 § 10(a), 41 Stat. 1068. This provision was derived from the General Dam Act of 1910, which in turn was based upon President Theodore Roose- velt's recommendations in the Rainy River veto message. See 45 Cong. Rec. 5684 (1910). By 1935 amendment, the language of this provision was re- stated to require that the project adopted will be "best adapted to a com- prehensive plan for improving or developing a waterway or waterways for the use or benefit of interstate or foreign commerce, for the improvement and utilization of waterpower development, and for other beneficial public uses, including recreational purposes." § 10(a), 49 Stat. 842,16 U. S. C. 803(a). |