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<br />. <br /> <br />o <br />00 <br />w <br />~ <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />HISTORY OF WATER RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT (Continued) <br /> <br />Construction of five multiple-purpose proj ects in Colorado; <br />the Animas-La Plata, Dolores, Dallas Creek, West Divide, and San <br />Miguel; and one in Utah, the Uintah Unit of the Central Utah Proj- <br />ect, upon completion and approval of a feasibility report to <br />Congress. <br /> <br />Establishment of a Lower Colorado River Development Fund. <br /> <br />Development of criteria for the coordinated long-range opera- <br />tion of the Federal reservoirs, equalizing the storage in Lake Mead <br />and Lake Powell. <br /> <br />Directed that the Secretary of the Interior shall conduct full <br />and complete reconnaissance investigations for the purpose of <br />developing a general plan to meet the future water needs of the <br />Western United States, except that for a period of 10 years from <br />the date of the act, studies shall not be undertaken of any plan <br />for the importation of water into the Colorado River Basin from any <br />other natural river drainage basin lying outside the States of <br />Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and those portions of <br />Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming which are in the natural drainage basin <br />of the Colorado River, <br /> <br />Directed the Secretary to make annual reports of annual con- <br />sumptive use and losses of water from the Colorado River system <br />after each successive 5-year period beginning with the 5-year <br />period starting on October 1, 1970, <br /> <br />D, Legal Aspects, Water Quality <br /> <br />Various water quality legislative acts have been passed by the <br />Congress of the United States and the Legislatures of the Basin States. <br />Discussion of four Federal acts that are of special significance to the <br />Colorado River Basin follows: <br /> <br />1. Water Quality Act of 1965 and Related Developments <br /> <br />The Water Quality Act of 1965, Public Law 89-234, amended the <br />Federal Water Pollution Control Act and establish a Federal Water <br />Pollution Control Administration (now the Environmental Protection <br />Agency), to provide grants for research and development, to increase <br />grants for construction of sewage treatment works, to require <br />establishment of water quality criteria, and for other purposes. <br />Section 5 of this Act requires States to adopt water quality criteria <br />applicable to interstate waters or portions thereof within their <br />boundaries by June 30, 1967, <br /> <br />Each of the seven Basin States proceeded with actions directed <br />toward establishment of water quality standards for interstate streams. <br /> <br />1(, <br />