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<br />August 18, 1999 <br /> <br />Jack Barnett, Executive Director <br />o Colorado River Salinity Control Forum <br />i- 106 West 500 South, Suite 101 <br />CO Bountifu~ UT 84010 <br />0> <br /> <br />To the Colorado River Salinity Control Forum, <br /> <br />The San Rafuel SCD is actively pursuing salinity control to improve the soil, water, and <br />crop yields to cooperators. The "Forum" has placed funds into the Ferron area for on- <br />farm improvements. The funds greatly benefit the downstream water users but help local <br />landowners to offset the cost of irrigation improvements, a burden that most could not <br />afford to implement. Your support has helped us secure other funds from EQIP, ARDL, <br />and others. <br /> <br />Our district certainly supports the adoption and application of salinity control practices <br />within our watershed areas. The salinity control programs of the Bureau of Reclamation, <br />the USDA programs, and basin states cost sharing programs have benefited many <br />downstream water users ofthe Colorado River, but there is still much to 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 /> <br />~~. <br /> <br />San Rafael Soil Conservation District <br /> <br />32 <br />