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1610 14 This national commitment requires that Congress appropriates sufficient funding for the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program to the Bureau of Reclamation in the Energy and Water Development appropriations process. The fanners panicipating in the Department of Agriculture component of th.e Program sh.are in the costs of implementing the salinity control measures. In recognition of the Congressional inclusion of USDA's Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program (CRSCP) in the Environmenlal Quality Incentives Program of PL 104-127. the Department of Agriculture should take all necessary steps to ensure that the salinity control units being implemented under the old CRSCP continue to receive adequate funding under EQIP to assure full implementation of those units. !l is critical that Congress and the Administration continue funding and implementation of the salinity control program in order 10 maintain the quality of Colorado River water at or below the Basin-wide water quality standard's numeric cTheria values. Resolution No, 97-5 COMPLIANCE WIlli STATE LA W The Federal Government shall comply with all applicable slate laws and regulations regarding water. State law shall have the deference granted in lhe Constitution of the United Slates. Position Statement Compliance with State La... (Resolution No. 97-5) The 10th Amendmenlto the Constitution of the United States reserves to Ihe states or people powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution or otherwise prohibited by the Conslilution to the states. The states arc directly responsible for many water management, planning and regulatory functions and are affected by federal policies and programs. IS If there is to be responsible, effective policy and decision- making in water management, planning and regulation, Ihe balance between the state governments and the federal government under the 10th Amendment must be preserved. Greater deference shall he given to slate and local detenninations of the need for and the purposes served by water projects. The federal purpose and need. as established in the federal permitting process, should incorporate the water project sponsor's purpose and need. No federal policy, will or agenda shall frustrate or subven local needs. The balance between the federal and state governments. created by the 10th Amendment, has severely eroded over lime. The negative impacts and damaging effects of the erosion of stale and local control and authority is evident in the area of water resources management. The power and authority reserved to the states in the management of waler resources, now usurped by the federal government; shall be returned to the states and local governments. Resolution No. 97-6 SETILEMENT OF INDIAN RESERVED RIGHTS To support the settlement of Indian reserved water rights by negotiation or agreement, recognizing that: I. After the resolution of Indian reserved water righls by negotiated settlement, Indians and non- Indians will still be neighbors sharing a common resource that is vital to their continued existence; 2. Controversies over Indian reserved water rights occur because the federal government has frequently failed to fulfill ils trust duties to prolect and assen tribal water righls with the result thai non-Indian economies have developed in reliance on rights to use water that do not always adequately account for Indian reserved rights; .