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<br />settAy these compacts and the water was availa.r use by the many millions <br />or people throughout the basin who depend upon it for their very survival. <br />Attachment I is a map of the Colorado River Basin which also shows the federal <br />projects completed since the Boulder Canyon Project Act (in blue) and the <br />additional projects proposed as part of the salinity control 'program (in red). <br />Plaintiff has requested relief in this action which threatens the continued <br />stability and future development oC these compact apportioned waters. The EPA <br />approved salinity standards now in effect in the Colorado River Basin were <br />developed in accordance with the policy of the basin states and Congress to uphold <br />the rights acquired by each state under the Colorado River Compact and Upper <br />Colorado River Compact to use and develop the waters of the Colorado River. <br />Plaintiff would have these standards, which were not only approved by EFA, but <br />which also served 8S the foundation of the policy mandated by Congress in the <br />Colorado River Salinity Control A~t of 1974, declared inadequate. Defendant- <br />intervenors maintain that the standards are adequate, have been ext;>ressly adopted <br />by Congress, and are consistent with the rights acquired by the states through <br />interstate compacts. Defendant-intervenors maintain that no new standards may <br />be adopted by EPA which would interfere with the rights at the respective basin <br />states to fully develop and beneficially use the waters aliocated to them by the <br />interstate compacts. The Defendant-intervenors submit to this 'Court that the <br />Colorado River Compact and Upper Colorado River Basin Compact control this <br />matter insofar as the use of the waters of the Colorado River is concerned.. As <br />explained in more detail below, these two interstate compacts have vested rights <br />in the states and have served as the basis for development of the resource which is <br />the very lifeblood of the basin states. Defendant-intervenors submit that these <br />compacts limit the relief which may be granted to the Plaintiff In this action. <br />Plaintiff seeks in this action to place control of salinity standards for the <br />Colorado River System in EPA under the provisions of the Federal Water Pollution <br />Control Act (Clean Water Act), rather than to continue the policies set forth in the <br />Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act of 1974. The Clean Water Act is <br />designed to prevent discharges of pollutants by man-made point sources rather than <br />to eliminate or counteract the levels of salinity caused by non~point sources and <br />natural point sources which are the primary source of salinity in the Colorado <br />River. The effect of this would be that future diversions of water from the <br />Colorado River could be eliminated if a diversion was shown to have a measurable <br /> <br />- 2- <br />