WSP09793

• File Number: 8275.100
• Description: Legislation and Litigation -- SALINITY -- Federal Legislation
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 2/15/1972
• Author: EPA
• Title: Proceedings - Seventh Session - Feb 15-17 1972 - Las Vegas - CONFERENCE - In the Matter of Pollution of the Interstate Waters of the Colorado River and its Tributaries
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Problem in the Colorado River Basin" to the conferees and water

resource agencies of the Colorado River Basin States for review

and comment; and

WHEREAS, all Colorado River Basin States reviewed

and commented on the draft report on the mineral quality

problem in the Colorado River Basin; and

WHEREAS, the Environmental Protection Agency has

revised its draft report and transmitted to the Colorado River

Basin States a final report dated 1971; and

WHEREAS, the said report constitutes a necessary

step toward the solution of the mineral quality problem of

the Colorado River system; and

WHEREAS, the States and Federal agencies have imple-

mented measures to control salinity of the Colorado River; and

WHEREAS, the Bureau of Reclamation 1s authorized to

make, and has feasibility investigations under way, to deter-

mine additional measures to reduce the salinity of the waters

of the Colorado River under present and future conditions; and

WHEREAS, during 1971 the States of the Colorado River

Basin urged committees of Congress to appropriate funds to the

Bureau of Reclamation to accelerate feasibility investigations

of salinity control projects on the Colorado River; and

WHEREAS, additional funds were appropriated to the

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