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<br /><. <br /> <br />section/4 of the CRSP legislation explicitly <br />states that the Secretary, in the operation of the <br />CRSP storage units and participating projects, <br />shall be governed by the Federal reclamation <br />laws. If any doubt exists that the preference <br />provisions of reclamation law apply, that <br />reservation is extinguished by reference to the <br />storage project's legislative history. The House <br />Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs made its <br />intent clear in the following report language on <br />H.R. 4449, one of the bills which was introduced <br />to authorize the CRSP: <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />...the committee considered writing into this <br />legislation a power preference provision similar to <br />those in existing reclamation law. Such a provision <br />was. not specifically written in because the <br />provisions in general reclamation law, including the <br />Reclamation Project Act of 1939 and the Flood <br />Contro 1 Act of 1944, wou 1 d be app 1 i cab 1 e to thi s <br />project...The committee wishes to make it clearly <br />understood that, although a power preference <br />provision is not specifically written into this <br />legislation, the committee supports the application <br />of existing power preference provisions to this <br />project. <br /> <br />11 <br />