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<br />001443 <br /> <br />such projects, eight of which have been finished or are under <br />construction.41 The largest is a desalinization plant near <br />Yuma, Arizona, costing about $500 million and scheduled for <br />completion in 1989.42 Most are located in the Upper Basin. <br />The CRBSCA also sanctions an array of other methods to <br />control salinity, including canal lining, projects to reduce <br />the return flow of particularly saline irrigation water, and <br />the circumvention or deflection of saline water from natural <br />sources. These projects are to be financed by the Federal <br />Government, but repaid in part from money in the Upper <br />Colorado River Basin Fund and the Lower Colorado River <br />Basin Development Fund (which was established by the Colorado <br />River Basin Project Act). 43 U.S.C. filS9S. <br />The Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. ~1251 et seq. (1976), <br />also pertains to salinity control in the Colorado Basin. It <br />authorized the United states to fix effluent standards <br />governing the amounts of pollutants that can be released from <br />"point sources", such as conduits and ditches, and to control <br />such discharges through a permit system. It also authorizes <br />the united states to control the general water quality of <br />streams, although that is a much more difficult endeavor to <br />accomplish. <br />No Basinwide authority has been designated by Federal <br />legislation to manage the effort to correct the Colorado <br />River salinity problem. But in 1973 the Basin states <br />organized the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Forum. <br /> <br />-18- <br />