WSP01581

• File Number: 8272.300.50
• Description: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Advisory Council
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 2/1/1992
• Author: CRBSC Advisory Counc
• Title: 1991 Annual Report on the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

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Public Law 93-320, the "Colorado River Basin Salinity Control

Act of ~974," authorized construction, operation, and maintenance

of certain works in the Colorado River Basin to control the

salinity of water in the Colorado River available for use in the

united states and Mexico.

Section 204 of the Act established a

Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Advisory Council (Council).

A Charter for the Council was originally approved by the

Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture and the Administrator

of the Environmental Protection Agency on February 6, 1976, revised

on June 22, 1976, and subsequently renewed in 1978, 1980, 1982,

1984, 1986, ~988 and October ~8, ~990.

The Council receives

reports from the federal agencies involved in salinity control

activities and makes recommendations in the Annual Report to those

agencies on appropriate means of controlling the River's salinity.

The Council is comprised of up to three members, appointed by

the respective Governor, from each of the seven Colorado River

Basin states. The current membership is shown on Attachment A. D.
Larry Anderson, Utah, serves as Chairman of the Council and C.

Laurence Linser, Arizona, as vice Chairman. Most of the members of

the Advisory Council are also members of the Colorado River Basin

Salinity Control Forum (Forum), and organization created by the

seven Colorado River Basin states.

The Council and Forum are

.. - related in their activities but have different functions.

The Bureau .of Reclamation (Reclamation) Salinity Coordinator,
Stanley Gappa, serves as staff for the Council but in addition, the