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 1064 SIXTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 285. 1920. United States, and withdrawn, reserved, or withheld from private appropriation and disposal under the public-land laws; also lands “C _ H an interests in lands acquired and held for any public urpose. °"°°”"°m “Corporation" means a corporation organized undier the laws of any State or of the United States empowered to develop, transmit, distribute, sell, lease, or utilize power in addition to such other powers as it may possess, and authorized to transact in the State or States in which its project is located all business necessary to effect the purposes of a license under this Act. It shall not include “municipaliust { U ties" as hereinafter defined. _ _ ° °` “State" means a State admitted to the Union, the District of Co- HM d Ht ” limibia, and any organized Territory of the United States. um °° Y' "Munic1pal1ty" means a city, county, irrigation district, drainage district, or other political subdivision or agency of a State competent under the laws thereof to carry on the business of developing, trans- ,,Nmgab,BwamS,, mitting, utilizing, or distributing power. . _ ` “Navigable waters" means those parts of streams or other bodies of water over which Congress has jurisdiction under its authority to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States, and which either in their natural or improved condition, notwithstanding interruptions between the naviga le parts of such streams or waters y falls, shallows, or rapids compelling land carriage, are used or suitable for use for the transportation of persons or property in interstate or foreign commerce, including therein all such interrupting falls, shallows, or rapids; together with such other parts of streams as shall have been authorized by Congress for improvement by the United States or shall have been recommended to Congress for such Umumciw improvement after investigation under its authority. _ _ p,,S.,s_» pu" _ ‘fMun1c1pal purposes" means and includes all purposes within munrciplal plowers as defined by the constitution or laws of the State or NG _ d _, byt ec arterof themunicipality. °`°mm°°t am' "Government dam" means a dam or other work, constructed or owned by the United States for Government purposes, with or without contribution from others. "I"°i°°*-" "Project" means complete unit of improvement or development, consisting of a power house, all water conduits, all dams and appurtenant works and structures (includin navigation structures) w iich are a part of said unit, and all storage, giverting, or forebay reservoirs direct y connected therewith, the primary line or lines transmitting power therefrom to the point of junction with the distribution system or with the interconnected(prim transmission system, all miscellaneous structures used an usefdlv in connection with said unit or any part thereof, and all water rights, rights of way, ditches, dams, reservoirs, lands, or interest in lan s, the use and occupancy of which are necessary or appropriate in the maintenance and operation of H _ ,_ such unit. _‘lj'°*";`* ”°rkS‘ j __ "Project Works" means the physical structures of a project. Mt ‘“"°"m““" "Net investment" in a reject means the actual legitimate original cost thereof as defined and) interpreted in the "classification of investment in road and equipment of steam roads, issue of 1914, Interstate Commerce Commission? plus similar costs of additions thereto and betterments thereof, minus the sum of the following items pro rly allocated thereto, if and to the extent that such items have Eileen accumulated during the_period of the license from earnings in excess mms €“'“d*’d· of a fair return on such investment: (a) [`nappropriated surplus, (b) aggregate credit balances of current depreciation accounts, and (c) aggregate appropriations of surplus or income held in amortization, sinking func, or similar reserves. or expended for additions or better- _ ments or used for the purposes for which such reserves were created. '“°°”°·" The term "cost" shal include, in so far as applicable, the elements