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Show 614 purposes." 642 Such a contract may be for a period not exceed- ing 40 years: 643 at such rates as in the Secretary's judgment will produce revenues at least sufficient to cover an appropriate share of the annual operation and maintenance cost and an appropriate share of such fixed charges as the Secretary deems proper, and shall require the payment of said rates each year in advance of delivery of water for said year. Or such a contract shall require repayment to the United States over a period not to exceed 40 years:644 with interest not exceeding the rate of 3^ per centum per annum if the Secretary determines an interest charge to be proper, of an appropriate share as determined by the Secretary of that part of the construction costs al- located by him to municipal water supply or other mis- cellaneous purposes. The foregoing standards point up an unusual feature. The procedure for allocation of costs, discussed earlier, includes provision for an allocation to "municipal water supply or other miscellaneous purposes." 645 But the above pricing standards are restricted to contracts to "furnish water" for municipal water supply or miscellaneous purposes. If the allocation pro- vision be thus broader in scope than authorization for con- tracts, one apparent result would be the lack of a correlative pricing standard. In this connection, it should also be noted that the allocation provision specifies municipal water supply or "other" miscellaneous purposes, but that word does not appear in the corresponding contract authorization to which the above pricing standards are related. Fish and Wildlife.-As already noted, project costs for these purposes are nonreimbursable.646 648 Act of August 4, 1939, § 9(c), 53 Stat.*1187, 1194, 43 U. S. C. 485h(e). *"Id. 646 § 9(a), 53 Stat. 1193, 43 U. S. C. 485h(a). 646 See supra, p. 597. |