WSP08407

• File Number: 8270.100
• Description: Colorado River Basin Water Quality/Salinity -- Misc Water Quality
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 10/1/1983
• Title: Colorado River Water Quality Improvement Program - Big Sandy River Unit - Draft Planning Report/Advance Draft Environmental Impact Statement - October 1983
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: EIS

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CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

analyses, the State of Wyoming entered into commitments by coordinating

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with Reclamation, specifying beneficial use of saline water as a prior-

ity, and contracting with industry for saline water's use. At present,

Wyoming is evaluating proposals by both SCS and Reclamation.

Soil Conservation Service

The Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act provides authority

for the

\1. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to participate in the

Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program, along with the U.S.

Department of the

Interior (USD!) and the Environmental Protect ion

Agency (EPA), in the seven Basin States of Arizona, California, Colo-

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rado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and

Wyoming.

Title II of the Act

(Section 203) directs the Secretary of the Interior to cooperate with

the Secretary of Agriculture in carrying out research and demonstration

projects and in implementing on-farm irrigation improvement, water

management practices, and other programs which would further the objec-

tives of the salinity control program.

A Memorandum of Understanding between USDI and USDA, effective

November 27, 1974, was entered into under the authority of the Inter-

departmental Work Service Act of March 4, 1915 (38 Stat. 1084), as

amended; the Economy Act of June 30, 1932 (31 U.S.C. Sec. 686); and the

Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act. A Memorandum of Agreement,

effective March 27, 1975, was entered into between the Water and Power

Resources Service (now Bureau of Reclamation) and the SCS to implement

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the specific cooperative activities called for by the Act. River basin

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