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Show 503 condition and progress of the electrification of" rural areas.49 Likewise, the broad survey, planning, and power-marketing pro- visions of the TVA Act contemplate the use of power-market data.50 In addition, the National Security Resources Board, through its Office of Energy and Utilities, has conducted power surveys as part of its mobilization planning.51 The foregoing circumstances have produced duplication of effort. The Federal Power Commission makes continuing sur- veys and power-market studies. Other agencies, having re- sponsibilities for marketing federal power, also make studies of power needs and resources in the areas where they operate. Note should also be made of certain steps taken to eliminate duplication in this field. In 1925, Congress directed the Sec- retary of the Army, through the Army Engineers, and the Federal Power Commission jointly to prepare and submit an estimate of the cost of making examinations and surveys of those navigable streams and their tributaries "where power development appears feasible and practicable," for specified purposes.52 But when it authorized prosecution of the surveys in 1927-the basis of the "308 Reports"-Congress assigned the responsibility to the Army Engineers alone.53 Some ad- ministrative steps have been taken to reduce duplication here. In the "308 Report" on the Columbia Basin, for example, the Army Engineers employed a power-market analysis represent- ing the combined research of the Bonneville Power Adminis- tration and the Bureau of Reclamation, published as an appendix.54 In addition, that analysis included information obtained from the Forest Service and the Bureau of Agri- cultural Economics, both of the Department of Agriculture.55 49 Act of May 20,1936, § 2, 49 Stat. 1363, as amended, 7 U. S. 0. 902 (Supp. III). 80 See supra, n. 210, p. 294. 81 See, e. g., Third National Electric Power Survey, National Security Resources Board (April 1950). In this case, NSRB relied almost exclusively on data assembled by the Federal Power Commission. Id. p. 5; see also supra, p. 423. 62 See supra, pp. 92-93. 68 Act of January 21,1927, § 1, 44 Stat. 1010,1015. 84 H. Doc. No. 531, 81st Cong., 2d sess., App. N (1950). 85 iua. |