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

C) permanent Work Group of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control.
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00 Forum continues to serve the Council and the Forum in the capacity
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of a technical review and study team. Ernest M. Weber, California,

is chairman of the Work Group. The Council is also assisted by the

Forum's Executive Director, Jack Barnett.

The ~972 Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as interpreted

by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), required setting

numeric criteria for salinity for the Colorado River. To

accomplish this requirement, the seven Colorado River Basin states

in ~973 created the interstate group, the Colorado River Basin

Salinity Control Forum.

The Forum developed water quality

standards for salinity for the Colorado River, including numeric

criteria, and a basinwide plan of implementation.

The plan

consists of a number of salinity control measures to be implemented

by state and federal agencies (Salinity Control projects_

constructed by the Departments of Agriculture and Interior are

cost-shared with the program's non-federal partners, states, and

local interests).

The control measures are directed at both

nonpoint and point sources of salt loading.

In addition, . the

states have adopted, as part of the plan, policies on National
Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits, saline

water use, intercepted ground water, and fish hatcheries. These

were adopted by the seven Basin states as part .of their state

standards and were approved by EPA.

The permanent Work Group,

.. under the authority of the Forum, is charged with making the

necessary studies, providing technical advice, and keeping current

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