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 PUBLIC LAW 545-JULY 28, 1954

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Rules and regulations.

P o w e r marketing agency disagreement. F P C determination.

P o w e r surplus. Bonneville P r o j ect.

SO Stat. 731. 16 USC 832-832/. Effectivity. 16 USC 791a.

64 Stat. 179.

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project, including acquisition of lands, easements, rights-of-way, or other interest in land in accordance with Federal laws and procedures governing flood-control projects and subsequent conveyance thereof to the licensee. SEC. 6. The operation and maintenance of a project under license pursuant to this Act shall be subject to reasonable rules and regulations by the Secretary of the Army in the interest of flood control and navigation. To assure that there shall be no discrimination between States in the area served by the project, such license shall provide that the licensee shall offer a reasonable portion of the power capacity and a reasonable portion of the power output of the project for sale within the economic market area in neighboring States and shall cooperate with agencies in such States to insure compliance with this requirement: Provided, That in the event of disagreement between the licensee and the power marketing agencies (public or private) in any of the other States within the economic market area, the Federal Power Commission may determine and fix the applicable portion of power capacity and power output to be made available hereunder and the terms applicable thereto. Power surplus to the requirements of the licensee and other non-Federal marketing agencies (public or private) within the economic marketing area, as may be economically usable to the Federal system, may be made available to and may be purchased by the Bonneville Power Administrator at rates not higher than the rates charged such non-Federal marketing agencies, and under such terms and conditions as shall be mutually agreeable to the licensee and the Secretary of the Interior. Such power may be co-mingled with power from Federal dams in the Columbia River system lor which the Bonneville Power Administrator has been designated marketing agent and shall be sold by the Administrator in accordance with the provisions of the Bonneville Project Act at established rate schedules. SEC. 7. If an application for a preliminary permit for a license under the Federal Power Act to authorize the development of the Priest Rapids site is not prosecuted with reasonable diligence before the Federal Power Commission and in any event if the license application is not filed with the Federal Power Commission prior to the date which is two years after the date of the enactment of this Act, the provisions of this Act shall not be effective after such date and the authorization for the development of the Priest Rapids site contained in the Flood Control Act of 1950 shall have the same status it would have had if this Act had not been enacted. I n the event an application for a license is made and denied by the Federal Powder Commission, or if construction under a license is not carried out in a reasonable period of time as determined by the Federal Power Commission, the authorization in the Flood Control Act of 1950 will have the same status it would have had if this Act had not been enacted. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Federal Power Commission shall act, on any such application filed with it prior to such date, within one year after the date on which such application is filed. Approved July 27, 1954. Public Law 545

July 28, 1954 [S. 2367]

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CHAPTER 591

AN ACT To amend the Act of June 29, 1935 (the Bankhead-Jones Act), as amended, to strengthen the conduct of research of the Department of Agriculture.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of June

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