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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Mr. Tom Parry, City Manager for the City of Needles, has also been encouraging <br />Reclamation to complete its work in establishing the accounting surface because Needles has <br />invested $800,000 to install the necessary well field to support the Project. Mr. Parry has requested <br />an opportunity to speak with the Board concerning an opportunity for the City of Needles to recover <br />some of its initial investment. <br /> <br />WESTERN WATER PLANNING <br /> <br />Glen Canvon Adaotive Management Work Grouo <br /> <br />The Glen Canyon Dam Adaptive Management Workgroup (AMWG) met on July 21 and 22, <br />1998 in Phoenix, Arizona. At the meeting, the AMWG adopted the following: I) Minutes of the <br />January meeting; 2) Charter renewal; 3) Management Objectives and Needs; 4) Formation of a <br />science advisory board; and 5) the recommendation that the permanent installation of the extensions <br />on the Glen Canyon Dam spillway gates be postponed, and that Glen Canyon Dam continue to be <br />operated in accordance with the plan of operation that comes out of the Annual Operating Plan <br />process of the Colorado River Management Work Group. <br /> <br />Additional Beach Habitat Building Flows (BHBF) below Glen Canyon Dam have been under <br />consideration since the first .Spike Flow" in the spring of 1996. The AMWG has established criteria <br />for any additional BHBF. Included in the Board folder is a letter from the non-federal members of <br />the AMWG to Secretary Babbitt stating that there is a good possibility that BHBF criteria may be, <br />met between Mid- January and July, 1999. Therefore, the non-federal members urged the Secretary <br />of the Interior to complete all of the necessary prerequisite environmental compliance by the end of <br />December, 1998. <br /> <br />Included in the Board folder is a Memorandum from the Grand Canyon Monitoring and <br />Research Center soliciting research proposals for establishing a second population of humpback <br />chub, and for endangered fish research flows as well as for providing services as part of the Science <br />Advisory Board. Also included in the Board folder is a Memorandum from Mr. Mark Schaefer, <br />Deputy Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, stating that he intends to retain the GCMRC in <br />its current organizational location. <br /> <br />WATER QUALITY <br /> <br />Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Prol!rarn <br /> <br />Last month it was reported that Reclamation had received 17 responses to its third Request <br />for Proposals (RFPs) for participation in the Basinwide Salinity Control Program which was initiated <br />in 1995. Seven proposals have been selected from the original seventeen for further negotiations. <br />These seven proposals have an estimated cumulative salt load reduction of 120,759 tons at an <br />average cost of $ 29.55 per ton. This program has proven to be very successful in meeting the <br />objectives that were identified by the Forum in its 1996 Triennial Report. That objective was to have <br />in-place between 1995 and 2015, additional salinity control measures to remove approximately <br /> <br />6 <br />