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<br />7 <br /> <br /> <br />~ <br />f\:l Also in 1968, the two agencies cooperated to develop a proposed salin- <br />~ <br />~ ity control plan of study for the Colorado River Basin. TIlis initial <br /> <br />program had an investigation phase spread over a 6-year period, with <br /> <br />costs averaging about $1.75 million annually. The second phase was <br /> <br /> <br />to involve implementation of a basin-wide salinity control plan. <br /> <br />During the Federal reorganization activities which transferred the <br /> <br />responsibilities of FWQA of the Department to the newly established <br /> <br />Environmental Protection Agency, the program became inactive. <br /> <br />Subsequently, the Colorado River Board of California prepared and <br /> <br />issued a report in 1970 entitled "Need for Controlling the Salinity <br /> <br />of the Colorado River." The EPA also completed a report on the <br /> <br />mineral water quality. The report, entitled "The Mineral Quality <br /> <br />Problems in the Colorado River Basin," was completed in 1971 and <br /> <br />pulled together the studies made during the period 1963-1970. <br /> <br />Under the direction of the Water Resources Council, a State-Federal <br /> <br />interagency group prepared a framework program for the development <br /> <br />and management of the water and related land resources of the Upper <br /> <br />and Lower Colorado Region. These reports, abstracted in the next <br /> <br />section of this report, recommended continuing studies of the Region's <br /> <br />increasingly complex water quality issues and suggested various salin- <br /> <br />ity control measures. Concurrently, the Bureau of Reclamation, with <br /> <br />the assistance of the several States involved, developed the program <br />