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Show 612 Power must be sold at rates which, in the opinion of the Board, "when applied to the normal capacity of the Authority's power facilities, will produce gross revenues in excess of the cost of production of said power."632 Both the Bonneville and Fort Peck Project Acts expressly stipulate that rate schedules may provide for:633 uniform rates or rates uniform throughout prescribed transmission areas in order to extend the benefits of an integrated transmission system and to encourage the equitable distribution of the electric energy developed * * *. It should be pointed out here that the Bonneville Power Administration has marketing responsibility for a number of projects in addition to the Bonneville Project, power from which is marketed over an integrated transmission system.634 The power-rate and marketing requirements are varied among these projects. As to one, Reclamation Law applies; two others are govrened by the law applicable to power produced at reservoir projects under Army control; three more come under the provisions of the Bonneville Project Act; and in one case there is a lack of statutory certainty.635 Such variations are important where, as here, they involve different dams in the same river system, for the source of power cannot be identified after it enters an integrated trans- mission network and is commingled with power from other sources. Fulfillment of the varying statutory requirements then becomes physically impossible or difficult, depending on the nature and degree of the differences. Drainage.-As already indicated, the return of costs for fed- eral drainage activities varies as to the agency performing the work.636 For such activities conducted by the Army Engineers, 832 Act of August 31, 1935, § 8, 49 Stat. 1075, 1077, 16 U. S. C. 831m. 633 Act of August 20, 1937, § 6, 50 Stat. 731, 735, as amended, 16 U. S. C. 832e; Act of May 18, 1938, § 5, 52 Stat. 403, 405,16 U. S. O. 833d. 834 See supra, pp. 305-306. 488 See supra, pp. 305-306. m See supra, pp. 595-596. |