...fact. Mr. MCLEAN. Now, section 9 (a). What is the real purpose of that section? This is how it reads: The Board is hereby directed in the operation of any...purposes of promoting navigation and controlling floods. Certainly that language is unnecessary. You have that in your present act [reading]: So far as may...

...'' into this law, we have approved and Chairman MuSwain has proposed that this language be adopted : The board is hereby directed in the operation of any dam or reservoir in its wssession and control to regulate the stream flow primarily for the purposes •.if promoting navigation...

...It provides in addition for the generation and disposal of electric energy in the following terms: The board is hereby directed in the operation of any...purposes of promoting navigation and controlling floods. Su far as may be consistent with such purposes, the board is authorized to provide and operate facilities...

...is with respect to electricity, both as to its production and to the marketing. That section reads: The Board is hereby directed in the operation of any...control to regulate the stream flow primarily for the purpose of promoting navigation and controlling floods. So far as may be consistent with such purpose...

...and Mississippi River drainage basins (sec. 4 (j) of the act). (c) The purposes set forth in the act, to regulate the stream flow primarily for the purposes of promoting navigation and controlling floods (sec. 9a of the act). WATER CONTROL PLANNING DEPARTMENT Resolved: (1) That there is hereby established...

...the region (sec. 10). The Board is expressly directed "in the operation of any dam or reservoir * * * to regulate the stream flow primarily for the purposes of promoting navigation and controlling floods." It is authorized, "so far as may be consistent with such purposes," to generate and sell power "in...

...operation of the dams. Mr. WHITTEV. I have before me here section 9a of the act which provides as follows: The Board is hereby directed in the operation of any...purposes of promoting navigation and controlling floods. Now, under that act you have got to keep the water high enough in the rivers for navigation and low...

...this act, and not dependent upon the generalized flood-control laws. For example, in section 9 (a) : The Board is hereby directed in the operation of any...purposes of promoting navigation and controlling floods. And then there are other provisions of the same sort. As to the part of the question that related to...

...Tennessee and Mississippi River drainage basins" ; directs the Board in the operation of such facilities "to regulate the stream flow primarily for the purposes of promoting navigation and controlling floods" ; and authorizes the Board, "so far as may be consistent with such purposes * * * to provide and operate...

...this act, and not dependent upon the generalized flood-control laws. For example, in section 9 (a) : The Board is hereby directed in the operation of any dam or reservoir in its (xHHession and control to regulate the stream flow primarily for the purposes of promoting navigation...