BOARD01933

• Board Meeting Date: 9/21/1998
• Description: WSP Section - Colorado River Basin Issues - Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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STATE OF COLORADO

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. Colorado Water Conservation Board
Department of Natural Resources

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Roy Romer
Governor

MEMORANDUM

Colorado Water Conservation Board Members

James S, Lochhead
Executive Director, DNR

FROM:

Steve Miller
Interstate Streams and Hydrologic Investigations Section

Daries C. Lile, P .E.
Director, eWeB

DATE: September 15, 1998

SUBJECT: Agenda Item 20.h., September 21-22,1998 Board Meeting-
Colorado River Basin issues -
Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program

INTRODUCTION

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This memo briefly updates the Board on the following three items regarding the Colorado River
Basin Salinity Control Program (CRBSCP) in anticipation of the next semi-armual meeting of the
CRBSCP Forum (Forum) to be held in Santa Fe, NM on October 19-20, 1998:
A. 1999 Triennial Review
B. Work Group Leadership
C. USDA Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) National Priority
This agenda item is primarily informational, however the Board has the option, if it chooses, to
provide direction concerning the 1999 Triennial Review and to reconsider and modify its May 1998
resolution concerning designation of a national priority area for the USDA EQIP. Background
information on the CRBSCP was provided in staffs Board memos for the May 1998 meeting
(agenda item 26.h.) and July 1998 meeting (agenda item 26.m.).

DISCUSSION

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A. 1999 Triennial Review.
As staff advised the Board at the July 1998 meeting, the Forum will be conducting its triennial
review of the water quality standards for Colorado River Basin salinity over the next 18 months.
Th~ CWCB staff will be participating in the analysis, report writing, and public participation efforts
during this period. At the Spring 1998 Forum meeting it was agreed that each of the Basin States
would undertake its own process for determining the need for additional content or issues to be
addressed in the 1999 Review and present those needs at the October 1998 meeting at which the
Forum will decide on the final scope of the 1999 Review.

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