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Show 471 among other purposes, the combined prospective water-supply requirements of political subdivisions and metropolitan areas in the signatory States both within and outside of such Basin. Each Act also declares that Incodel "is hereby designated as the agency and instrumentality" of the enacting State for this purpose.359 Mississippi River.-River-development and control activi- ties of the Federal Government on the Mississippi River are chiefly the responsibility of the Army Engineers. Within its prescribed area, the Mississippi River Commission, created in 1879, performs these functions.360 The Department of Agri- culture also has its usual watershed responsibilities relating to flood control.881 The Mississippi River was the subject of special flood-control legislation in 1917,1923,1928, and 1936 prior to the assumption of greater federal responsibility for flood control nationally in 1936.362 In addition, the general navigation and flood-con- trol legislation discussed previously governs federal develop- ment in this Basin.363 Missouri River Basin.-The present stage of efforts toward comprehensive development of the Missouri Basin may be portrayed in large part by tracing the history of the Army Engineer-Bureau of Reclamation plan, commonly called the DI-181, February 19, 1948. The Commission made it clear that this de- termination did not relate to diversions not covered by the Court's decree. A substantially similar determination was reached by the Commission in con- nection with the hydroelectric plant proposed by the Bockland Light & Power Company for construction on and adjacent to the New York City aqueduct at the East Branch Tunnel which connects two municipal water- supply reservoirs known as the Pepacton Reservoir, on the East Branch of the Delaware and Rondout Reservoir, on Rondout Creek. Rockland Light & Power Company, F. P. C. Docket E-6220, November 29, 1945. 859 § 1 of each Act cited in preceding note above. m See supra, p. 98. m See supra, pp. 374-377. w Act of March 1, 1917, 39 Stat. 948; Act of March 4, 1923, 42 Stat. 1505; Act of May 15, 1928, 45 Stat. 534; Act of June 15, 1936, 49 Stat. 1508; Act of June 22, 1936, 49 Stat. 1570. See also supra, pp. 409-410. 863 See supra, pp. 91-121,134-148, 415-418. |