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<br />E(}'..:c'.:C~~, 1l~;r):1 t!~0 c~c,!4Zcncc of th,:, nc',-} CO;!ccpt of the :r.ulti- <br /> <br />, <br />\ <br />f <br /> <br />purrose Pyojcct, it bc~~n to be recognized that project functions, <br /> <br />other than irrigation, could be assigned responsibility for rcpaying <br /> <br />part of the project costs, even though such costs were not immediately <br /> <br />related to the costs of thc function assigned such repayment responsi- <br />bility. Y <br /> <br />The concept of assigning responsibility for repaying reimbursable <br /> <br />project costs to other than irrigation beneficiaries was formalized in <br /> <br />the first general authorization of multipurpose projects provided by <br />Section 9(a) of the Reclmration Project flct of 1939. Y Under thc.t <br /> <br />authorization, the Secretary was obliged to determine what pOl~ion of <br /> <br />project costs could probably bc repaid by irrigation, po\Ver and H&l <br /> <br />beneficiaries. Unless the secre1:ary COli Ld snow 1:h~ prooaDill ty ot <br /> <br />the repayment of all reimbursable project costs, the project could <br /> <br />not go f01"l'.'<1rd \Vithout srccific Congressional clearance. <br /> <br />This design for the repayment of reimbursable project costs by <br /> <br />irrigation, pOI'}er ami 1,j&1 bcneficiaries ,,'as follmwd in the plan for <br />. <br /> <br />Pl~ograrn), uS ShOhl1 on page 27 of <br /> <br />(1101, the Pick-Sloan mssouri Basin <br />61 <br />S. Doc. No. 191. - The design \Vas <br /> <br />the Nis50ud Rivel" Basin Project <br /> <br />y <br /> <br />E.g., Section 2(b) of the! Bouldcr Canyon Project f.et of Deecmber 21, <br />1923 (45 Stat. 1057) Gllthorized $25 ,,,i11,ion in costs "allocable" <br />to flood control to be paid frrnn other project revenues. <br /> <br />y [';', S.~;.1.:. l.i.-;7; ,~~ l'.:)..C. :: .:~<)~ <br />f:./ 78t11 Con::;., 2d Sess. (1944). <br /> <br />3 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />" <br />