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Show 500 In the case of the Bureau of Reclamation, a variety of stream-flow and related data is again prerequisite to discharge of the express statutory direction that examinations and sur- veys be made for irrigation works for the storage, diversion, and development of waters.29 Another statute requires the securing of information "concerning the water supply" of projects.30 Even more detailed and varied are the data re- specting stream-flow in the case of examinations and surveys contemplated by the reports and findings specified in the 1939 Reclamation Project Act.31 Water-Borne Transportation Data.-Another example of overlapping statutory provision for collection of data concerns river and inland waterway traffic. Within the Department of Commerce, the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce is charged with gathering and collating data relating to inter- state and foreign commerce and to the actual cost of trans- porting freight and passengers on "canals, rivers, and other navigable waters of the United States." 32 Also within the Department of Commerce, the Inland Waterways Corpora- tion has the duty of compiling and distributing data "concern- ing transportation on inland waterways."33 On the other hand, the collection of statistics on water-borne domestic commerce and their publication in Annual Reports of the Chief of Engineers is governed by various laws enacted since 1866.34 Furthermore, authorized examinations and sur- veys by the Army Engineers must include full information regarding the "present and prospective commercial importance" of the project and the probable "benefit to commerce," as well as data concerning "terminal and transfer facilities."35 Simi- 28 Act of June 17,1902, § 2, 32 Stat. 388, as amended, 43 U. S. 0. 411. 80 Act of December 5, 1924, § 4, subsection B, 43 Stat. 672, 702, 43 U. S. C. 412. See also supra, p. 187. 31 Act of August 4,1939, §§ 9(a), 9(b), 53 Stat. 1187,1193, 1194, 43 U. S. O. 485h(a),485h(b). 82 Act of March 3,1875, § 1,18 Stat. 343, 352, as amended, 15 U. S. G. 178. 83 Act of February 28,1920, § 500, 41 Stat. 456, 499, as amended, 49 U. S. C. 142. See also supra, pp. 83-86. 84 See supra, pp. 86-87. 85 Act of March 4, 1913, § 3, 37 Stat. 801, 825, 33 U. S. C. 545. |