WSP00967

• File Number: 8273.100
• Description: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control - Federal Agencies - Bureau of Reclamation
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 1/1/1983
• Author: DOI
• Title: Salinity Control Program Study Report and Recommendations
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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~ A. Establish a salinity control coordinator in each region (Lower and Upper
Colorado Regions) to serve as a central contact and coordinating function.

B. Improve procedures for schedule/budget review and allow for changes
to be agreed upon by the Chief of the CRWQO and the Regional Directors.
The Chief of the CRWQO should be invited to all regional planning, program,
and budget conferences and meetings related to salinity control to assure
full participation in these sensitive management areas.

C. Chief of the CRWQO should have surname authority on any budget or
schedule item in the regions that deals with the SCPo

D. The Chief of the CRWQO should
Servicewide budgeting sessions.

be involved in skull session and other

Recommendation:

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Option A and B should be pursued.

Action Entities: UC Region, LC Region, CRWQO

COORDINATION IIlTH OTHER AGENCIES

Priority: Medium

The coordination between the Service and Soil Conservaiton Service (SCS) at
the highest level has not been aaequate in the areas of establishing
balanced priorities and funding levels. While it is generally perceived
that agricultural program accomplishment is presently running ahead of the
Service, it is also seen that continued progress is threatened by the
possibility that Department of Agriculture will not be able to Come up
with much higher funding levels required by the salinity program by the
mid-eighties. For example, SCS present annual funding in this area is in
the $2-5 million range, but the needs projected by 1986 are well over $40
million.

It was also indicated that Bureau of Land Managment (BLM) was another
agency where internal prorities for the SCP were not high and funding for
their part of the program would likely be inadequate.

Statements were also received indicating the need for more effective meshing
of our salinity program planning processes with those of the SCS at the
local level. There is a general perception that is widely held externally
and internally of less than satisfactory technical coordination and program
funding coordination at the local levels between the two agencies.