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Proposed resolutions for adoption by the memebers of the Colorado River Water Users Association at their annual business meeting in 2006.
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12/16/2005
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Colorado River Water Users Association
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2006 Resolutions and Supporting Position Statements
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expenditures that recognize the absolute necessity for a reliable water supply in the and West and the enormous dependence <br />on Reclamation projects to provide adequate water supplies with certainty and reliability. <br />Resolution No. 2006 -4 - -- COLORADO RIVER SALINITY CONTROL <br />The Colorado River Water Users Association (CRWUA) urges the continued funding and implementation of <br />measures to control the salinity of the Colorado River. <br />Position Statement - -- Colorado River Salinity Control--- (Resolution 2006 -4) <br />The Colorado River provides important water supplies for about 27 million Americans in Arizona, California, <br />Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. Nearly 4 million acres are irrigated in the United States. The <br />Colorado River also serves about 2.3 million people and half a million acres of irrigated farmlands in the Republic of <br />Mexico. The Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act ( CRBSCA) (PL 93 -320) provides the means for the United States <br />to meet the national water quality obligation to the Republic of Mexico established in 1972 by Minute 242 of the <br />International Boundary and Water Commission and to maintain the Basin -wide water quality standards adopted by the <br />seven Colorado River Basin States and approved by'the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) pursuant to the <br />Federal Clean Water Act. <br />The seven Colorado River Basin States and their water users have consistently worked with the executive, <br />legislative and judicial branches of the federal government to assure a fair and effective allocation of the River's water <br />supply within the terms of the Law of the River. Preserving the Basin States' abilities to develop their apportioned water <br />supplies necessitates maintenance of the Basin -wide water quality standards for salinity. At current salinity levels, the <br />economic damages from high salinity currently experienced by municipal, industrial and agricultural users of Colorado <br />River water in the United States are estimated to be $330 million per year. <br />In 1974, Congress enacted the CRBSCA to implement the 1973 salinity agreement with Mexico as well as a <br />program for controlling Colorado River salinity levels within the United States in accordance with the Basin -wide water <br />quality standards for salinity. In 1984, PL 93 -320 was amended to authorize a new voluntary, cost - shared, on -farm salinity <br />control program by the Department of Agriculture and to develop a comprehensive program for minimizing salt <br />contributions to the Colorado River from lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management. In 1995, Congress <br />enacted PL 104 -20, which provides the Bureau of Reclamation with programmatic authority to initiate new federal and <br />non - federal salinity control measures. In 1996, the USDA's program was combined with three other programs into the <br />newly created Environmental Quality Incentives Program by the Federal Agriculture Reform and Improvement Act (PL <br />104 -127). In 2000, PL 106 -459 amended the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act to increase the appropriation <br />ceiling for the Bureau of Reclamation's programmatic authority by $100 million. In 2002, Public Law 107 -171 <br />reauthorized the USDA's Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) (under which the Secretary of Agriculture <br />carries out salinity control measures). <br />Pursuant to the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act, repayment to the Federal Treasury has been made from <br />the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund (with Colorado River Storage Project hydropower revenues being the source of <br />Basin Fund monies) and the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund for the majority of the Bureau of Reclamation <br />and Department of Agriculture salinity control program expenditures. Since 1996, upfront cost - sharing, allowing <br />additional leveraging of Upper and Lower Basin funds with appropriated and EQIP funds to accomplish additional salinity <br />control measures, has been occurring as authorized by the CRBSCA amendments. In addition, farmers participating in the <br />Department of Agriculture component of the Program share in the costs of implementing the salinity control measures. <br />In recognition of the Congressional inclusion of USDA's Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program (CRSCP) <br />in the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) of PL 104 -127, the Department of Agriculture should take all <br />necessary steps to ensure that salinity control proposals receive adequate funding under EQIP. The Administration must <br />request and Congress must appropriate sufficient funding for the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program to the <br />Bureau of Reclamation in the Energy and Water Development appropriations process and to the Bureau of Land <br />Management in the Interior and Related Agencies appropriations process. <br />Resolution No. 2006 -5 - -- COMPLIANCE WITH STATE LAW <br />E <br />
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