WSP10235

• File Number: 8281.910
• Description: Colorado River Studies and Investigations -- Grand Valley Salinity Study
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 12/1/1976
• Author: Soil Cons Serv
• Title: Grand Valley Salinity Study - draft
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Department of Agriculture in cooperation with the Department of the

Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency to develop a salinity

control plan for the Grand Valley Unit. Title II, Section 202(2) of

the Act specifically directs; (al the Secretary of the Interior to

". . . enter into 'agreements with the Secretary of Agriculture to

develop a unified control plan for the Grand Valley Unit," and

(b) the Secretary of Agriculture n. . . to cooperate in the planning

and construction of on-farm system measures under programs available

to that department." Section 203(b)(J) directs the Secretary of

Interior ". . . in the investigation, planning, construction, and

implementation of any sal inity control unit involving control of

. salinity from irrigation sources, to cooperate with the Secretary of

Agriculture in carrying out research and demonstration projects and

in implementing on-the-farm improvements and. farm management 'practices

and programs which will further the objective of this title; . . .n

To establish a cooperative program for effective execution of the

salinity control measures called for in the act, a Memorandum of

Understanding effective November 27, 1974, was entered into by the

Department of the Interior and the Department of Agriculture. A

Memorandum of Agreement, effective March 27, 1975, was entered into

between the Bureau of Reclamation and the Soil Conservation Service

to implement the specific cooperative activities called for under

Title II of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act.

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