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<br />o <br />--J <br />tv <br />I-" <br /> <br />1993 ANNUAL REPORT <br /> <br />The 1972 Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as interpreted by the Environmental <br />Protection Agency (EPA), required setting numeric criteria for salinity for the Colorado River. <br />To accomplish this requirement, the seven Colorado River Basin states in 1973 created an <br />interstate group known as the.colorado _River ,Basin Salinity ,Control Forum. The Forum <br />developed water quality standards for salinity for the Colorado River, including numeric criteria <br />and a basin-wide plan of implementation. The plan consists of a number of salinity control <br />measures being implemented by state and federal agencies (salinity control projects constructed <br />by the Departments of Agriculture and the Interior are cost-shared with the program's non- <br />federal partners, states, and local interests). Those control measures are directed at both <br />nonpoint and point sources of salt loading. In addition, the states have adopted, as part of the <br />plan, policies on National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permits, saline <br />water use, intercepted ground water, and fish hatcheries. The plan was adopted by the seven <br />Basin states as part of their state water quality standards and were approved by EP A. The <br />Forum has appointed a permanent Work Group, which is charged with making the necessary <br />studies, providing technical advice, and keeping current with events and changes which enable <br />the Forum to make decisions on matters concerning the numeric criteria and the plan of <br />implementation. Since the establishment of salinity standards in 1975, the Forum has conducted <br />six triennial reviews as required by Section 303(c) of the 1977 Water Quality Act, as amended. <br />The most recent review occurred in 1993. <br /> <br />The Advisory Council met once during the period covered by this report; in Phoenix, <br />Arizona, on October 26, 1993. At that meeting, the Council received reports from and made <br />inquiries of the federal agencies involved in salinity control, and approved the budget <br />recommendations contained in this Report. <br /> <br />COWRADO R/YBR BASlN SAUNlTY CONTROL ADYlSORY COUNC1L <br /> <br />2 <br />