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<br />c..-:> <br />en <br />w <br />~ <br /> <br />Environmental Protection Agency, and the Secretary of Agri- <br />culture are directed to cooperate and coordinate their <br />activities effectively to carry out the objective of this <br />title. <br /> <br />Sec.202(a) The Secretary is authorized to construct, <br />operate, and maintain the following salinity control units <br />as the initial stage of the Colorado River Basin salinity <br />control program. <br /> <br />(1) The Paradox Valley unit, Montrose County, Colorado <br />consisting of facilities for collection and disposition <br />of saline ground water of Paradox Valley, including <br />wells, pumps, pipelines, solar evaporation ponds, and all <br />necessary appurtenant and associated works such as <br />roads, fences, dikes, power transmission facilities, and <br />permanent operating facilities. <br /> <br />(2) The Grand Valley unit, Colorado, consisting of measures <br />and all necessary appurtenant and associ ated works to reduce <br />the seepage of irrigation water from irrigated lands of <br />Grand Valley into the ground water and thence into the <br />Colorado R-iver. Measures shall include lining of canals <br />and laterals, REPLACING CANALS AND LATERALS WITH PIPE, <br />combining of existing canals and laterals into fewer and more <br />efficient facil ities, AND IMPLEMENTING OTHER MEASURES TO <br />REDUCE SALT CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE GRAND VALLEY TO THE COLORADO <br />RIVER. Prior to initiation of construction of the Grand <br />Valley unit, OR PORTION THEREOF, the Secretary shall enter <br />into contracts through which the ageRcies NON-FEDERAL ENTITIES <br />owning, operating, and maintaining the water distribution <br />systems, OR PORTIONS THEREOF, in Grand Valley, singly or in <br />concert, will assume THE obligations SPECIFIED IN SECTION <br />202(b)(4) relating to the continued operation and mainte- <br />nance, of the unit's facilities to the end that the maximum <br />reduction of salinity inflow to the Colorado River will be <br />achieved. The--See1"etary is a1se ayt~grilea tg Frg\'iae, as an <br />e1emeAt of thc CraAd Valley uAit, for a technical staff to <br />pl"e\'iae. iRformatioR aRa assistaRce to \'later users OR means and <br />measures for 1 imitiRg excess ~Iater al'p1 icatigRs tg irriqat€!~ <br />l.aAs5: PRO'lHJa9, That syeh assistaRce sRa11 R9t exceed a <br />fluios of fi',c yeal"s aftel" fUAds fil"st aCCElIllC anil ab1c undcr <br />tRis title. TRe ~ecretar:.' '1lill eRter intg agreements '1lith the <br />Secretary of .'\gl'icl:lltl:lre tEl dcvelep a uRifiea control 131 arl---fu-F <br />the Grand \Ja1~i-h-+he-&eel'-et-ary Elf ~i-€u-1-tl:ll'e i-s <br />. i-l+-tl:H~-p-l-.ir:m-i-n9--aml-~uct i 0 R of: <br />-oo4aFm-s-ys-tem-meawr-~r-e~s a'liii1 able to that <br />Depal"tmcAt. <br /> <br />2 <br /> <br />Salinity control. <br />units, construc- <br />t ion and mai n- <br />tenance <br />43 USC 1592 <br /> <br />, <br />j _~_l~L :,;i <br />