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<br />orderly repayment of all proper costs, and we <br />believe that is what the Congress intended. <br /> <br />Our construction of Section 9(c) of the <br />Reclamation Project Act of 1939 is <br />corroborated by specific provisions in <br />parallel power marketing legislation. Thus, <br />Section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1944 <br />(16 U.S.C., section 825s) states that the <br />Secretary of the Interior, when disposing of <br />power generated at the Corps of Engineers' <br />projects, shall do so "in such manner as to <br />encourage the most widespread use thereof at <br />the lowest possible rates to consumers <br />consistent with sound business principles." <br /> <br />Similarly, Section 6 of the Bonneville <br />Project Act (16 U.S.C., section 832d) states <br />that the rates "shall be fixed and <br />established with a view of encouraging the <br />widest possible diversified use of electrical <br />energy." Since the relationship of demand to <br />price is an inverse one, the lowest price <br />will naturally encourage the most widespread <br />use. In effect, therefore, the Bonneville <br />Project Act similarly requires that the rates <br />for Bonneville power be fixed as low as <br /> <br />43 <br />