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<br /> <br />. <br /> <br />.... <br />o <br />o <br />D <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />I ~TRODI:CTIO:; <br /> <br />"!, It is recoonnended that: A salinity policy be adopted for <br />the Colorado River System that would have <l~ it~ ohJective the <br />maintenance of salinity concentrations at or below levels pres- <br />ently found in the lower main stem. In implementing the salinity <br />policy objective for the Colorado River System, the salinity <br />problem must be treated as a basil1Wide problem that needs to be <br />solved to maintain Lower Basin water salinity at or below present <br />levels while the Upper Basin continues to develop its compact- <br />apportioned waters. <br /> <br />"II. The Salinity control program as described by the Department <br />of the Interior in their report entitled "Colorado River :.[ater Quality <br />::pruvement Program," dated February 1972, offers the best prospect <br />for implementing the salinity control objective adopted herein." <br /> <br />The conferees further sURgested that the Bure.'lu of Reclamation should <br />..,JV~ the primary responsibility for investi~,Hion, pl"lOnin~, and implementin~ <br />the Color.'ldo River Basin Salinity Control Program with the assistance of <br />tll~ Office of Saline h'ater and the Environmental Protection Agency at the <br />Federal level. <br /> <br />2. <br /> <br />The Federal lolater Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 <br /> <br />TIle object of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act .\mendments of <br />1972 (Public La\.' 92-500) is to restore and maintain the chemic.ll, physical, <br />and biological inteRrity of the ~,ations waters. It declares thilt the <br />national ~oals are to eliminate discharge of pollutants into navigable <br />waters by 1985 with an interL"Tl goal of attaining by July 1983, water quality <br />I.'hieh provides for the protection and propagation of fish, shellfish and <br />I.'ildlife and for recreation in and on the :<;ation's water. <br /> <br />The Act authorizes the Environmental Protection Agency after cooperation <br />I.'ith other F...deral agencies, State water pollution control aRencies, inter- <br />-;t.lte agencies and municipalities and industries involved, to prepare or <br />Jevelop comprehensive programs for preventing. reducing or eliminating <br />the pollution of the navigable ....aters and ground waters and improvinl'; the <br />sanitary condition of surf..lce and underground W.:lters. <br /> <br />Sor.lt' of the more important aspects of the Act briefly explained are as <br />follows. The Act authorizes the Environmental Protection Agency to provide <br />~rants fer research or demonstration projects and construction of treatment <br />....orks to Federal Al';encies, States, or private organizations. It also <br />authorizes Environmental Protection Agency to publish and revise from time <br />to time ~ater quality criteria and to revise standards to include intrastate <br />as well as interstate streams. The law also provides that by July I, 1977. <br />the best practical ....ater pollution control technology must be applied <br />followed by the best available technology economically achievable by <br />July I, 1983. Section 402 of the Act provides for the Gover~~ental regulation <br />of pollutant discharges through a mandatory permit progra~, monitoring, <br />inspection, and periodic reporting. <br /> <br />6 <br /> <br />