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<br />000269 <br /> <br />1998 ANNUAL REPORT <br /> <br />the Uncomphgre Valley of Colorado. The Council requests that Reclamation report to the Council <br /> <br /> <br />the extent of these types of programs and the salinity control that was accomplished by these <br /> <br />programs in 1998. <br /> <br />The Council recommends in the Management and Budget Recommendations portion of this report <br />that the federal program be accelerated to reduce downstream damages and to further reduce the <br />possibility of excursions above the numeric criteria. The Council requests that Reclamation ask for <br />an increased appropriation in FY 2000 and FY 2001 as shown in Table I of this report, <br /> <br />Bureau of Land Management (BLM) <br /> <br />The Council continues to see organizational and personnel changes in the Bureau of Land <br /> <br /> <br />Management (BLM), Recent changes now place personnel in BLM with stewardship over salinity <br /> <br /> <br />control matters both in BLM's Washington and Denver offices. The Council believes that although <br /> <br />changes can be disruptive, they may also provide an opportunity for improved coordination when <br /> <br /> <br />knowledgeable and capable personnel are placed in key positions, The Council is encouraged by <br /> <br />recent discussions among the BLM State Directors from the four Upper Basin states and with BLM's <br /> <br /> <br />plans to convene a salinity coordination meeting early in 1999 for BLM state technical leads having <br /> <br />responsibility for accomplishing salinity control efforts, <br /> <br />The Council is encouraged by recent BLM efforts toward accounting for and tabulating salinity <br /> <br />control activities on Federal lands, The Council had been pleased with initial efforts of the BLM <br /> <br /> <br />to identify activities on public lands which can reduce the salt load in the Colorado River and for <br /> <br /> <br />attempting to develop methodologies for quantifying those reductions as was discussed in the 1996 <br /> <br /> <br />Review, In more recent years the tabulation of salt saving activities had not occurred. The Council <br /> <br />COLORADO RIVER BASIN SALINITY CONTROL ADVISORY COUNCIL <br /> <br />6 <br />