WSP03032

• File Number: 8272.600.60
• Description: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program - Basin Member State Info - Utah
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 3/7/1975
• Author: Utah State Univ
• Title: Colorado Regional Assessment Study - Phase One Report for the National Commission on Water Quality - Part 1 of 2 -- Title Page - end Chapter V
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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1968 Colorado River Basin Project Act contains similar requirements.6

These various pieces of legislation allowed the Bureau of Reclamation

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to become directly involved in salinity control and provided the tacit

mandate for this agency to assume the subsequent responsibility for

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developing the Colorado River Basin Water Quality Improvement Program.

The Water Quality Act of 1965 stimulated efforts in a series of

pollution conference meetings in 1966 and 1967 to formulate water quality

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standards for the interstate waters ilIf the Colorado River system and

provides still another link in the chain of events leading to the enactment

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of the 1972 Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments and the 1974

Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act. The question of salinity

standards were, of course, raised during the last half of the Sixties and

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the early Seventies. Opposition to numeric criteria for salinity was

widespread and resulted in an agreement in 1971 that a decision on adopt-

ing numeric standards should be deferred until completion and review of

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a report (tiThe Mineral Quality Problem in the Colorado River Basin,"

February, 1972) prepared by the Federal Water Pollution Control

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Administration arid published by its successor agency, the Environxnental

Protection Agency.

In many respects this report is similar to one published by the

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Colorado River Board of California under the title "Need for Controlling

Salinity of the Colorado River" (l970).

The only essential difference is

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