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I <br />such projects, eight of which have been finished orl,are under <br />construction. 41 The largest is a desalinization Rant near <br />Yuma, Arizona, costing about $500 million and sch duled for <br />completion in 1989.42 Most are located in the U er Basin. <br />The CRBSCA also sanctions an array of other ethods to <br />control salinity, including canal lining, project to reduce <br />the return flow of particularly saline irrigation water, and <br />the circumvention or deflection of saline water f om natural <br />sources. These projects are to be financed by he Federal <br />Government, but repaid in part from money in the Upper <br />Colorado River Basin Fund and the Lower Colo ado River <br />Basin Development Fund (which was established by t e Colorado <br />River Basin Project Act). 43 U.S.C. §1595. <br />The Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. §1251 gt s (1976), <br />also pertains to salinity control in the Colorado Basin. It <br />authorized the United States to fix effluen standards <br />governing the amounts of pollutants that can be released from <br />"point sources", such as conduits and ditches, an 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 designate by Federal <br />legislation to managd the effort to correct the Colorado <br />River salinity problem. But in 1973 the B sin states <br />organized the Colorad6 River Basin Salinity Co trol Forum. <br />-1s-