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<br />do not favor land use regulations to prescribe on-farm <br /> <br />practices. <br /> <br />The traditional method is voluntary, <br /> <br />publicly-assisted cost-sharing programs of soil and water <br /> <br />conservation. <br /> <br />Three basic issues must be decided: <br /> <br />1. What are the acceptable levels of salinity <br />along the Colorado River? <br /> <br />2. How should those levels be achieved and main- <br /> <br />tained? <br /> <br />3. Who should pay for the costs of salinity <br /> <br />control programs, and how? <br /> <br />IV. EFFECT OF THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT ON WATER <br />DEVELOPMENT IN THE UPPER COLORADO RIVER BASIN <br /> <br />The Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. iii 1531 et seq <br /> <br /> <br />(1985), was enacted by Congress in 1973 to provide a <br /> <br />means to conserve the ecosystems upon which endangered <br /> <br />and threatened species depend. <br /> <br />The Act has had the <br /> <br />effect of forestalling water development projects in the <br /> <br /> <br />Upper Basin and denying persons of their legal right to <br /> <br />divert water according to state water law. The terms of <br />the Act and actions taken pursuant to it must be examined <br />to understand how this has occurred. <br /> <br />-33- <br />