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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />(.A.) <br />00 <br />..... <br />I\:;) <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />that the former, but not the latter, included a recommendation that <br /> <br />specific salinity standards and criteria be adopted. This difference <br /> <br />was a paramount issue in the Las Vegas and Denver meetings of the <br /> <br />Seventh Enforcement Conference in February and April of 1972, <br /> <br />respectively. <br /> <br />The Water Pollution Enforcement Conferences <br /> <br />The other thread in this review of the "institutional history" of <br /> <br />water quality problems in the Colorado River Basin involves the enforce- <br /> <br />ment conferences whiCh were held on water pollution problems in the <br /> <br />CRB, pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948. The <br /> <br />Public Health Service conducted an interstate conference in 1958 over <br /> <br />the uranium-refining radioactive waste problem. Between 1960 and 1972 <br /> <br />seven sessions of a federal-state enforcement "Conference in the Matter <br /> <br />of Pollution of the Interstate Waters of the Colorado River and Its <br /> <br />Tributaries" have been held and the emphasis in latter sessions has been <br /> <br />the salinity problem. <br /> <br />The Environmental Protection Agency convened the Seventh Enforce- <br /> <br />ment Conference in February and April, 1972, with all seven Basin States <br /> <br />participating. After testimony was presented by Federal, State, and <br /> <br />local officials, the conferees unanimously adopted the following con- <br /> <br />clusions and recommendations: (l) that the salinity policy for the <br /> <br />Colorado River should "have as its objective the maintenance of salinity <br /> <br />2l <br />