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<br />-44- <br /> <br /> <br />Salinity Control Accomplishments <br />~LM has identified and implemented salinity control <br />projects beginning 1984. A total of 14 watershed <br />improvement projects with salinity control objectives has <br />W been identified in 4 different states. Seven of these <br />~ watershed improvement projects have been partially <br />~ implemented. Five flowing saline wells, four in Colorado <br />~ and one in Wyoming, have been successfully plugged. <br />The total salt yield reduction resulting from the <br />above BLM salinity control projects is approximate I)' 7,600 <br />tons annually, primarily from well ,plugging. <br /> <br />Fish and Wildlife Service (FWSl <br /> <br />The responsibilities, set forth in the Endangered <br />Species Act, Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act, Clean <br />Water Act, National Environmental Policy Act and the <br />Migrator;' Bird Treaty Act, provide for FWS participation in <br />the Cplorado, River Salinity Control Program. It is mainly <br />through these legislative authorities that the FWS works <br />to~ard meeting its objective of providing the federal <br />leadership to conserve, protect, and enhance fish and <br />wildlife and their habitat for the continuing benefit of <br />the publi c. <br />There is a biological diversity of fish and wildlife <br />resources and a great number of unique species in the <br />Colorado RiveT Basin. " This river system has one of the <br />largest lists of threatened and endangered fish and <br />wildlife species in the United States as well as <br />signi~icant other resources, including migratory birds and <br />waterfowl, non-migratory birds, big game, wetlands, <br />riparian lands, and other habitats that support ~ildllfe. <br />In general F"'S activities consist, oJ evaluating <br />salinity control unit proposals and preparing related Fish <br />and Wildlife Coordination Act reports, Planning Aid <br />Memorandums (See Table 4 for status), biological opinions, <br />and commenting on Draft Environmental Impact Statements and <br />biological assessments. <br />FWS has completed major efforts on ten salinity <br />control units and is currently involved with six additional <br />salinity control units under study in the Colorado River <br />Basin,. Of the sixt~en salinity control units, thirteen are <br />lO'Cated within FWS's Region 6, where participating offices <br />include Salt Lake City, Utah, and Grand Junction, <br />Colorado. Region I participating offices in Reno, Nevada <br />and Laguna Niguel, California, have jurisdiction over the <br />other three units (Table 4). The Salt Lake City Field <br />Office,has been assigned responsibility for bverall <br />coordination within the FWS. <br /> <br />,"',-. ". <br />