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<br />August 18, 1999 <br /> <br />o <br />p...o <br />CO <br />r-" <br /> <br />Jack Barnett, Executive Director <br />Colorado River Salinity Control Forum <br />106 West 500 South, Suite 101 <br />Bountiful, UT 84010 <br /> <br />To the Colorado River Salinity Control Forum, <br /> <br />The Carbon-Emery Work Group is actively pursuing salinity control to improve the soil, <br />water, and crop yields to cooperators. The "Forum" has placed funds into the Carbon and <br />Emery areas for on- furm improvements. The funds greatly benefit the downstream water <br />users but help local landowners to offset the cost of irrigation improvements, a burden that <br />most could not afford to implement. Your support has helped us secure other funds from <br />EQIP, ARDL, and others. <br /> <br />Our work group certainly supports the adoption and application of sa1inity control <br />practices within our watershed areas. The salinity control programs of the Bureau of <br />Reclamation, the USDA programs, and basin states cost sharing programs have benefited <br />many downstream water users of the Colorado River, but there is still much to <br />accomplish. <br /> <br />We support the acceleration of the salinity control programs, especially in getting the <br />USDA portion of the program to adequately fund levels of twelve million dollars per year <br />from the EQIP program. It will take a strong USDA funding commitment to keep up the <br />progress made by the Forum to date, and in the future to meet the water quality criteria <br />for lower basin states. <br /> <br />Sincerely, <br /> <br />4d~ <br /> <br />Roger O. Barton, Chairman <br />Carbon-Emery Work Group <br /> <br />17 <br /> <br />, "~I <br />',,-'>.' <br />