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<br />e-Il'" ') <br />- IJ .,J J" <br /> <br />To the first three questions, P.L. 93-320 (based on HR. 12165), provided partial <br />answers. Title II, authorizing a basin-wide salinity control program, was added, <br />though the Executive Branch has never shown any enthusiasm for funding the <br />projects in it The Congress declared in the Act that replacement of the brine <br />stream from the desalting plant was a national obligation, but was silent on <br />possible sources of replacement water. (The Federal government does not, in fact, <br />own any water in the Colorado River Basin.) It further declared that use of power <br />for the desalting plant and other Title I works must not diminish the supply <br />available to preference customers, but again failed to specify power sources <br />(although these were later identified by the Bureau of Reclamation). <br /> <br />Seventeen years later, the answer to the last question is still unknown. <br /> <br />brownell.rpt <br /> <br />12 <br /> <br />September 1991 <br /> <br />- " <br />, <br /> <br />-."..J <br />