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<br />w <br />00 <br />I-' <br />-:';1 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />1974 Salinity Control Act (PL 93 -320) are mutually compatible, if not <br /> <br />mutually supportive. EPA's amended regulation (39 Fed. Reg. 20703 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />1974) requires the States of the Basin to adopt numeric standards for <br /> <br />salinity, consistent with the policy of maintaining average annual salinity <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />levels in the lower main stream at or below 1972 levels, and to submit <br /> <br />an implementation plan to EPA not later than October la, 1975. This <br /> <br />same policy of nondegradation (or, more accurately perhaps, anti- <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />degradation) was enunciated and unanimously adopted at the 1972 Enforce- <br /> <br />ment Conference. Since Title II provisions of PL 93 -320 are explicitly <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />viewed as means for implementing this same Enforcement Conference <br /> <br />policy, the two Acts are conceptually related and mutually compatible. <br /> <br />The Colorado River Basin Salinity Forum was formed by the seven <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Basin States to work with the Environntental Protection Agency in arriving <br /> <br />at a mutually satisfactory formulation of the regulation requiring numeric <br /> <br />criteria for salinity, and to submit to EPA a plan for compliance with <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />those standards by October, 1975. The membership of the Salinity <br /> <br />Forum is essentially the same as that on the Colorado River Basin <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Salinity Control Advisory Council, a group established under PL 93 -320. <br /> <br />This continuity of membership should be a factor which is conducive to <br /> <br />the coordinated implementation of the two Acts. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />The compatibility of the two Acts can be expressed as follows: <br />PL 92 -500 reauthorizes water quality standards for receiving waters <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />24 <br /> <br />. <br />