WSPC02758

• File Number: 8272
• Description: Colorado River - Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program - CRBSCP
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 4/10/1996
• Author: Unknown
• Title: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act - Title II
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Section 205

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(a) The Secretary shall allocate the total costs (excluding costs borne by non-federal
participants) of the on-farm measures authorized by section 202(c), of all measures to
replace incidental fish and wildlife values foregone, and of each unit or separable feature
thereof authorized by section 202(a) of this title as follows:

"'Subsection (a) modified slightly by PL 104.127***

(1) In recognition of Federal responsibility for the Colorado River as an interstate stream
and for international comity with Mexico, Federal ownership of the lands of the Colorado
River Basin from which most of the dissolved salts originate, and the policy embodied in the
Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 (86 Stat. 816), 75 per centum of
the total costs of construction, operation, maintenance, and replacement of each unit or
separable feature thereof authorized by section 202(a)(l), (2), and (3), including 75 per
centum of the total costs of construction, operation, and maintenance of the associated
measures to replace incidental fish and wildlife values foregone, 70 per centum of the total
costs of construction, operation, maintenance, and replacement of each unit or separable
feature thereof authorized by paragraphs (4) through (6) of section 202(a), including 70 per
centum of the total costs of construction, operation, and maintenance of the associated
measures to replace incidental fish and wildlife values foregone, and 70 per centum of the
total costs of implementation of the on-farm measures authorized by section 202(c),
including 70 per centum of the total costs of the associated measures to replace incidental
fish and wildlife values foregone, shall be nonreimbursable. The total costs remaining after
these allocations shall be reimbursable as provided for in paragraphs (2), (3), (4), and (5),
of section 205(a).

. (2) The reimbursable portion of the total costs shall be allocated between the Upper
Colorado River Basin Fund established by section 5(a) of the Colorado River Storage
Project Act (70 Stat. 107) and the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund
established by section 403(a) of the Colorado River Basin Project Act (82 Stat. 885), after
consultation with the Advisory Council created in section 204(a) of this title and
consideration of the following items:

(i) benefits to be derived in each basin from the use of water of improved quality and
the use of works for improved water management;

(ii) causes of salinity; and

(i1i) availability of revenues in the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund and
increased revenues to the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund made available under
section 205(d) of this title: Provided, That costs allocated to the Upper Colorado
River Basin Fund under section 205(a)(2) of this title shall not exceed 15 per centum
of the costs allocated to the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund and the Lower
Colorado River Basin Development Fund,

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