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If your review finds criminal violations of law you are asked to prosecute offend- ers to the full extend of law. If you find that these documents are legal and binding, you are asked to cite the laws upon which you rely to make your finding. You are encouraged to keep me fully informed of the progress of this investigation to avoid giving the appearance of self involvement. BackQround Comment: USDA reorganized during the early 1990's. Soil Conservation Service (SCS) became Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). Agri- cultural Soil Conservation Service (ASCS) became Farm Services Administration (FSA). Sometimes new acronym has been used when the document referenced uses the old, and vice verse. June 24, 1987, Shelton Boone, NRCS State Conservationist, issued Lee E. Hill, Area Conservationist for the Grand Junction area, a memo regarding a request for financial assistance made by OMID. Some the issues this memo discusses are: . USSR has no objections to USDA assisting OMID if the project is cost ef- fective. Cost effective means the total project cost cannot exceed bene- fits derived. . Agricultural funds cannot be used to improve systems under repayment to the government. . Is this assistance needed to enhance delivery of water to the farms? . Currently USSR calculates downstream salinity benefits at $56.00 per ton. Local benefits can be added to this amount. Benefits derived from the OMID project cannot exceed downstream plus local benefits. . The OMID project will set two precedents: 1) NRCS will be trying to sal- vage projects USBR has deferred or eliminated because of excessive costs; 2) evaluation will place a significant demand on NRCS employees and consume a disproportionate share of USDA's sanity funds; and 3) treating major canals significantly expands the USDA program beyond that originally intended. State-wide ramifications must be considered and reQional and national approvals will be needed. December 8, 1987, Kenneth A. Pitney, NRCS Assistant State Conservationist, wrote in a memo to Mike Diluzio, Grand Junction District Acting Area Conserva- , tionist stating therein: 2 --------~..