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<br />. . <br /> <br />result in signifacant reduction in salt contribution. lIcre, too, the <br /> <br />l- <br />t..;) <br />.... <br />(Jl <br /> <br />program is being well received locally. Some 119 farmen;, coverinu <br /> <br />6,028 acres. were provided technical assistance by the SCS in FY 1980. <br /> <br />The ASeS offices in the two involved counti.t:::.> initial(,~c.l co~t slwring for <br /> <br />the installation of on-farm salinity control measures in 1980, through <br /> <br />ASCS's ACP, after the Coneress recomm"nd"d that $2 milljon be mad" <br /> <br />available for such work. <br /> <br />Practice cost sharing totaling $2,214,300 was requested by 53 <br /> <br />farmers in Duchesne County, of which 35 were through Long-Term Agreemeno;s <br /> <br />(LTA's), the balance through annual practices. The participating Duchesne <br /> <br />County farmers earned a total of $278,700 in FY 1980 for completed <br /> <br />practices. In Uintah County, ACP practices requireing cost shares <br /> <br />totaling $1.682,000 ,,'ere requested by 66 farmers, of "hich 22 were <br /> <br />through LTA's. A tot.,l of $399.400 in cost sharing was earned by Uintah <br /> <br />County farmers comple:ing their practices in FY 1980. <br /> <br />For whatever rea:;on, the Department of Agriculture has not i.dentified <br /> <br />money in its FY 1982 budget to continue this very cost-effective on-fnrm <br /> <br />program for salinity ,:ontro1. <br /> <br />We. the seven states. wish to stress that the on-farm and related <br /> <br />salinity control mensllres are an Important pnrt of th" Colorado River <br /> <br />Basin Salinity Contro:. Program, and should continue to be funded and <br /> <br />implemented as expedil:iously as possible so that the water quality <br /> <br />standards can be met 'lI1d water resources of the Colorado River llnsin can <br /> <br />be utilized in the mOHt efficient manner. Therefore, the Basin states <br /> <br />request that for Fiscal Year 1982, $5.000,000 of the Agri.cultural <br /> <br />Conservation ProgriJm be stipulated for use in continllinr; the cost- <br /> <br />" <br />