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Show 592 erned by the first two Acts, the Federal Power Commission is required to make an allocation of costs upon which power-rate schedules must be based, while the latter Act requires certain cost allocations by the TVA Board.525 Moreover, while cost- allocation procedures are not expressly required under a number of other statutes, they are employed in administrative practice in connection with benefit-cost determinations and in rate making.526 The subject of return of project costs, to which we now turn, we shall treat separately from the matter of pricing of project products.627 The two matters nevertheless bear a close rela- tionship, for the pricing provisions alone often determine the degree to which project costs are returned to the United States. Navigation and Flood Control.-Statutes applicable to Army Engineer projects contain no provision requiring return of costs allocable to navigation and flood control, except so far as local contribution is required pursuant to statute.528 Nor are any costs required to be returned in the case of flood-control work by the Department of Agriculture, unless the Secretary in his discretion requires local contribution.529 Costs allocated to navigation and flood control are expressly made nonreim- bursable in connection with projects authorized under the 1939 Reclamation Project Act.530 Irrigation.-Under that 1939 Act, provision is made for an allocation of that part of the estimated project cost which can "properly be allocated to irrigation and probably be repaid by the water users."531 Payment of interest is not expressly re- quired. Costs allocable to irrigation but beyond the water- 529 See, e. g., H. Doc. No. 531, 71st Cong., 2d sess., ch. Ill, Main Control Plan and Related Programs: Justification pp.-----(1950). Federal Power Com- mission Order, Re Department of the Interior, relative to the Alatoona Project, Docket No. E-6157, January 25, 1949. 827 As to the pricing of project products, see infra, pp. 600-615. 828 See supra, pp. 105-106,144-146; see infra, pp. 601-603. 829 Act of August 28, 1937, § 4, 50 Stat. 876, 877, see 33 U. S. C. 701c. 880 Act of August 4, 1939, § 9(a), 9(b), 53 Stat. 1187, 1193, 43 U. S. C. 485h(a),485h(b). 881 § 9(a), 53 Stat. 1193,43 U. S. C. 485h(a). |