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.,' . 000137 . Mr. Warren D. Fairchild August 19, 1974 Page twenty-one The Board is represented on the Upper Colorado River Commission. The Director of the Board serves on the Legal and Budget Committees; the Deputy Director serves on the Engineering Committee; and the Board's attorney also serves on the Legal Committee. During the 1974 Fiscal Year, the commission at its regular meetings, as well as in meetings of the committees, con- sidered Colorado River salinity control legislation, the Rainbow Bridge litigation, consumptive use studies, long-range reservoir operating criteria, and the status of authorized projects in the Upper Colorado River Basin. The Deputy Director rep~esents the Board on the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Forum. This group was formed in anticipation of the need for a basinwide approach in dealing with proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations that would require the states to adopt water quality standards for salinity and a plan of implementation for salinity control by October 18, 1975. The Forum consists of three representatives from each of the seven Colorado River Basin states and represent the water development and water quality functions of each state. During FY 1974, the Forum had numerous meetings with EPA in an effort to attain a mutually acceptable proposal for setting salinity standards on the Colorado River and implementation of a plan for attaining such standards. Stemming from these meetings and deliberations, the proposed Salinity Control Policy and Standards Procedures were published in the Federal Register of June 14, 1974. Public hearings on the Policy and Standards Procedures are sched- uled in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Denver, Colorado, in August 1974. At the request of the Board, the U. S. Geological Survey is continuing several interpretive hydrologic investigations in problem areas of the state, which cover such research areas as acid mine drainage, hydrology of urbanized mountain areas, trans- port and aquifer dispersion of contaminants, and hydrologic data utilization for urban planners. The Board coordinated all of its studies with other state agencies working on comprehensive plans; considered economic and other relevant assumptions and projections made by other planning agencies, made joint use of equipment, personnel, and existing data; and provided for statewide coordination of comprehensive water and related land resources planning.