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<br />Section 202
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<br />(a) The Secretary is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain the following salinity control
<br />units and salinity control program as the initial stage of the Colorado River Basin salinity
<br />control program:
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<br />(1) The Paradox Valley unit, Montrose County, Colorado, consisting of facilities for
<br />collection and disposition of saline ground water of Paradox Valley, including wells, pumps,
<br />pipelines, solar evaporation ponds, and all necessary appurtenant and associated works
<br />such as roads, fences, dikes, power transmission facilities, and permanent operating
<br />facilities, and consisting of measures to replace incidental fish and wildlife values foregone.
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<br />(2) The Grand Valley unit, Colorado, consisting of measures and all necessary
<br />appurtenant and associated works to reduce the seepage of irrigation water from irrigated
<br />lands of Grand Valley into the ground water and thence into the Colorado River, Measures
<br />shall include lining of canals and laterals, replacing canals and laterals with pipe, combining
<br />of existing canals and laterals into fewer and more efficient facilities, implementing other
<br />measures to reduce salt contributions from the Grand Valley to the Colorado River, and
<br />implementing measures to replace incidental fish and wildlife values foregone. Prior to
<br />initiation of construction of the Grand Valley Unit, or portion thereof, the Secretary shall
<br />enter into contracts through which the non-federal entities owning, operating, and
<br />maintaining the water distribution systems, or portions thereof, in Grand Valley, singly or in
<br />concert, will assume the obligations specified in subsection (b)(2) relating to the continued
<br />operation and maintenance, of the unit's facilities to the end that the maximum reduction of
<br />salinity inflow to the Colorado River will be achieved.
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<br />"'PL 98-569 deleted authority for the Crystal Geyser Unit,'''
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<br />(3) The Las Vegas Wash unit, Nevada, consisting of facilities for collection and disposition
<br />of saline ground water of Las Vegas Wash, including infiltration galleries, pumps, desalter,
<br />pipelines, solar evaporation facilities, and all appurtenant works including but not limited to
<br />roads, fences, power transmission facilities, and operating facilities, and consisting of
<br />measures to replace incidental fish and wildlife values foregone.
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<br />(4) Stage I of the Lower Gunnison Basin Unit, Colorado, consisting of measures and all
<br />necessary appurtenant and associated works to reduce seepage from canals and laterals
<br />in the Uncompahgre Valley, and consisting of measures to replace incidental fish and
<br />wildlife values foregone, essentially as described in the feasibility report and final
<br />environmental statement dated February 10, 1984, Prior to initiation of construction of
<br />Stage I of the Lower Gunnison Basin Unit, or of a portion of Stage I, the Secretary shall
<br />enter into contracts through which the non-federal entities owning, operating, and
<br />maintaining the water distribution systems, or portions thereof, in the Uncompahgre Valley,
<br />singly or in concert, will assume the obligations specified in subsection (b)(2) relating to the
<br />continued operation and maintenance of the Unit's facilities.
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<br />"'Subsection (4) authority was provided by PL 98.569,'"
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