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<br />As the foregoing ~iscussion indicates, <br />congressional policy regarding the sale of Federal <br /> <br />. <br />power to municipal utilities is longstanding. The <br />policy has been ~e-enforced by recent actions of <br />Congress. The congressional will. has been <br />consistently carried out by the Department of the <br />. <br /> <br />Interior and the'Department of Energy. Western <br />believes that any change in preference policy, <br />such as that sug$ested by UP&L, should be <br />initiated in Congress rather than by an <br />administrative agency. As Congressman Swift <br />observed in the qebate over the Hoover Powerp 1 ant <br />Act, there is a process for those who disagree <br />with the preference clause. That process involves <br />the i ntroducti on of new 1 egi s 1 ati on, not an <br />administrative change in contravention of <br />congressional desires. <br /> <br />In additi on to ~he precedent found in the <br />legislative history of reclamation law, Western <br />finds support fQr its proposed marketing criteria <br />in judicial andiadministrative precedent. In <br />previous sectio~s of this discussion, the <br /> <br />continuing validity of preference clause <br />precedent, in the f ace of event s such as the <br />creation of thei Department of Energy and the <br /> <br />3D <br />