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<br />" <br /> <br />river by 2.5 m.a.f., congress stated that the Colorado <br />River Basin was in danger of economic stagnation. The <br />Secretary of the Interior was directed to investigate <br />augmentation, primarily by importation from other basins <br />or desalinization. Because of objections of represen- <br />tatives of the Northwest, however, examination of water <br />importation was suspended until at least 1988. The Basin <br />Project Act also declared that satisfaction of the <br />requirements of the Mexican Treaty from the Colorado <br />River constitutes a national obligation and that the <br />seven Basin States would be relieved of the Mexican <br />Treaty obligation as soon as an augmentation plan for an <br />additional 2.5 m.a.f. was implemented. <br />8. Minute 242 <br />Minute 242 of the International Boundary <br />and Water Commission, signed by the United States and <br />Mexico on August 30, 1973, commits the United States to <br />deliver water to Mexico from the mainstream containing <br />on the average no more than 115 parts per million more <br />than the salt content of the water used b~ the Imperial <br />valley. This standard generally limits the salt content <br />to about 1000 parts per million. <br /> <br />-8- <br />