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. ---.- VI. FUNDING AND BUDGETING N o Mloo l-' For FY-83, USDA has continued to use multiple agency funding procedures. Various agency budgets for FY-83 were formulated independently and submitted through the normal budgeting process with no real effort to correlate or consolidate the CR.BSCP funding levels. !'he, general breakdown on agency funding levels for 1983 are as follows: . SCS - Technical Assistance Salinity Units Studies ASCS - Cost Shares (ACP) AaS - Research & Demonstration CSRS - Research Support ES - Extension Education FY-83 $ 500,000 o 3,700,000 1,000,000 o o Change Over FY-82 $ same -200,000 same +600,000 -161,000 -250,000 -11,000 TOTAL 4,800,000 !'hese funding levels essentially allow USDA to continue with the two implementation projects and to expand ARS research efforts. CSRS and ES activities are not funded for FY-83. !'here are no funds provided for SCS salinity control unit studies in FY-83. ARS reports the $600,000 increased funding will be used to expand research on salinity contro~ in the Colorado River Basin. A coordinated research approach and implementation plsn involving several ARS locations is currently being developed. During the past year, USDA did develop a proposal for a consolidated account to cover the USDA CRBSCP in FY-84. With the support and concurrence of the Under Secretary for International Affairs and Commodity Programs and the Assistant Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment, ASCS and SCS took the leadership to develop a fully coordinated budget package. Included within the consolidated account are funds for ASCS, SCS, and ES. !'he funds will provide for cost-sharing, technical assistance, salinity studies, monitoring, and extension education support. Research funding for ARS and CSRS were not included in the consolidated account at this time. A component of the FY-84 consolidated budget proposal was a "modified" USDA CRBSCP implementation schedule. Previous implementation schedules showed rapid increases in funding levels from $5.0 million per year to in excess of $50.0 million per year in less than four years. Table VI-l presents the "modified" USDA implementation costs and distribution which shows gradual funding increases with a peak ceiling of approximately $25.0 million per year in FY-88 through FY-93. The implementation time frame was extended by six years to be completed by the year 2000. This modified implementation schedule presents a more gradual and realistic transition into full scale implementation of the various USDA onfarm salinity control projects. Figure VI-l identifies the proposed projects and present implementation schedule for onfarm salinity controls. While this schedule may be changed, and is, of course, subject to Congressional funding, USDA feels that through this schedule the Colorado River salinity control objectives and water quality standards can still be achieved while States continue to more fully develop their compact-apportioned water supplies. 23 {, I ;; , ,-y' -,