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<br />proposed meeting announcement is included in the Board folder, It is anticipated that, because of
<br />potential litigation, this will be discussed in Executive Session,
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<br />Glen Canvon Adaotive Manal!ement
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<br />Included in the Board folder, for your information, is a copy of a Memorandum from
<br />Mr, Charles Calhoun, Regional Director, Upper Colorado Region, U,S, Bureau of Reclamation to the
<br />U.s. Fish and Wildlife Service regarding the "Implementation Status Elements of the Reasonable and
<br />Prudent Alternutivesfrom the December 24, 1994 Biological Opinion on Operations of Glen Canyon
<br />Dam," This is Reclamation's third progress report, It details the status of each element of the
<br />Reasonable and Prudent Alternative (RPA) contained in the 1994 Glen Canyon Dam Operations
<br />Biological Opinion,
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<br />WATER QUALITY
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<br />Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Prol!l"am
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<br />It is that time again to begin submitting testimony to Congress in support of appropriations for
<br />the Salinity Control Program. In his budget submittal to Congress, President Clinton has again
<br />requested a $300 million appropriation for the Department of Agriculture's Environmental Quality
<br />Incentive Program (EQIP), Last year, you will remember, Congress reduced the spending from the
<br />mandatory level of $200 million to $174 million, This year the Forum is requesting that the EQIP
<br />program at leas! be resthred to the $200 million level, or more if necessary, so as to allow the funding
<br />of national priority areas, The table below shows the approved Forum and Advisory Council
<br />appropriation requests for FY 2000.
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<br />FUNDING RECOMMENDA nONS
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<br /> Fiscal Years
<br /> 2000 2001
<br />DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
<br />Bureau of Reclwnation $17,500,000 $17,500,000
<br />Bureau of Land Management $5,200,000 $5,200,000
<br />DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE $12,000,000 $12,000,000
<br />TOTAL FUNDS NEEDED $34,700,000 $34,700,000
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<br />Included in the Board folder, for your reference, are copies of three memorandums from
<br />Mr, Jack Barnett, Executive Director of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Forum, For those
<br />agencies that are planning to provide comments, you can extract information from these memorandums
<br />for inclusion in your testimony,
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<br />Memorandum 99-14 provides a list of the six committees to which the Forum will provide
<br />testimony along with a list of the Congressmen or Senators that serve on the various subcommittees,
<br />Each subcommittee has established certain deadlines for submitting testimony, and they are listed in
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