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<br />001076 <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />and better use of electrio power and water for irrigation purposes, for <br />agricultural and domestio use, or for small or looal industries, and it <br />may oooperate with State governments, or their subdivisions or agenoies, <br />with educational or research institutions, and with oooperatives or other <br />organizations, in the applioation of electrio power and of water for irri- <br />gation purposes to the fuller and better balanoed development of the resouroes <br />of the region: Provided further, That the board is authorized to inolude in <br />any contraot for the sale of power or water suoh terms and oondi tions, inolud- <br />ing resale rate sohedules, and to provide for suoh rules and regulations as <br />in its judgment may be neoessary or desirable for oarrying out the purposes <br />of this Act, and in case the purchaser shall fail to comply with allY such <br />terms and conditions, or violate any suoh rules and regulations, said contract <br />may provide that it shall be voidable at the election of the board: Provided <br />further, That in order to supply farms and small villages vdth eleotrio <br />power directly as contemplated by this seotion, the board in its disoretion <br />shall have power to acquire existing electric faoilities used in servinW suoh <br />farms and sma.ll villages: And provided further, That the terms "States' , <br />"countiesll. and IImunioipe.l1ties" as used in this Act shall be oonstrued to <br />inolude the publio agencies of allY of them unless the context requires a <br />different oonstruction. <br /> <br />, <br />. <br /> <br />-. < <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />(e) Rate schedules for the sale of electric energy and water by the <br />Corporation shall be prepared from time to time by the Corporation. Subject <br />to the provisions of seotion 13, the Corporation shall fix suoh rate sohedules <br />as it finds necessary or appropriate to provide adequate markets and outlets <br />for eleotric energy and water and to encourage the widest possible use of <br />electric energy and water, having regard (upon the basis of the application <br />of such rate sohedules to the capaoity of the oontemplated electrio or water <br />facilities of the Corporation or of a projeot of the Corporation) to the <br />recovery of the oost of generating and transmitting suoh eleotrio energy or <br />storing and transporting suoh water, inoluding appropriate reserves for <br />maintenance and upkeep and the amortization of the capital investment over a <br />reasonable period of years. In order to distribute the benefits of inte- <br />grated transmission system and to promote the equitable distribution of <br />electric energy, rate schedules shall provide for uniform rates, or rates <br />uniform throughout prescribed transmission areas. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />5EC. 13. (a) The board shall make a thorough investigation of the oost <br />or value of each dam, steam plant, or other similar improvement hereafter <br />oonstructed by or turned over to the Corporation for its management and <br />control for the purpose of allocating such cost or value wnong the various <br />purposes served by the improvement--suoh as navigation, flood control, irri- <br />gation, power development, or other types of development, as the oase may be. <br />Costs of facilities having a value only for one purpose shall be allocated to <br />that purpose, oosts of faoilities having a joint value for more than one <br />purpose shall be equitably allooated among suoh purposes in suoh manner as <br /> <br />'. <br />, <br /> <br />-14- <br />