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2 "Defense Housing: Projects^ Subject to the approval of the Public Service Commission, the Company will enter into contracts for the refund of the cost of constructing water mains, advanced by others to and within Defense Housing Projects, located in the present city limits of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, but with­in a distance from the Company*s nearest existing water main, equal to not more than 20 feet multi­plied by the number of houses which such others agree with the Company to construct within such project* A Defense Housing Project within the meaning of this rule is a project under which the party con­tracting with the Company constructs within a sub­division, the plat of which has been filed with the County Recorder of Clark County, Nevada, not less than twenty (20) dwelling houses, but at least one dwelling house for each fifty (50) feet of such water mains constructed within such subdivision. Such contract shall provide that such water mains shall be constructed at the cost or the party con- / tracting with the Company and under the supervision of the Company] that such water mains shall be owned, operated and maintained by the Company upon the completion of the construction thereof and that the Company shall refund to the party contracting with the Company the cost thereof if and when said party shall have completed the construction of the number of houses required by said contract. Such contract may contain other reasonable provisions not Incon­sistent with the other provisions of this rule. This rule shall remain In effect only during the present National Emergency," v I feel our Rule 9-A is equitable in the case of a sub­division in which the subdivider develops raw land by Installa­tion of streets and public utilities and thereafter sells lots upon which the purchaser may or may not construct improvements, in which case it may be several years before any substantial number of water consumers are served by the mains. Nomellini, however, contends, and I agree there is merit to his argument, that in the case of a housing projeot in which a substantial number of homes are to be immediately constructed, the Water Company will shortly after completion of the housing facilities receive substantial revenue from sale of water to consumers located in the Tractf in view of which he should be refunded his costs upon completion of the project,