7806

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7806
• Author: U.S. Department of the Interior.
• Title: Quality of Water, Colorado River Basin.
• USFW Year: 1997.
• USFW - Doc Type: Progress Report No. 18,
• Copyright Material: NO

Chapter 5

COLORADO RIVER BASIN
SALINITY CONTROL PROGRAM

Title I of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act, Public Law 93-320, authorized the
Secretary of the Interior to proceed with a program of works of improvement for the enhancement
and protection of the quali~y of w.ater available in the Colorado River for use in the United States.
and the Republic of Mexico (figure 6). Title I enables the United States to comply with its
obligation under the agreement with Mexico of August 30, 1973 (Minute No. 242 of the
International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico), which was concluded
pursuant to the Treaty of February 3, 1944 (TS 994).

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Figure 6.-Map of salinity control units and
study areas.

Title II of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act, Public Law 93-320, of June 24, 1974, as
amended by Public Law 98-569 of October 30, 1984, directs the Secretary of the Interior,
commencing on January 1, 1975, and every 2 years thereafter, to submit simultaneously to the
President, the Congress, and the Advisory Council, a report on the Colorado River Salinity Control
Program covering the progress of investigation, planning, and construction of salinity control units
for the two previous fiscal years.

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