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<br />::000.1""\11.11. REPOR T <br /> <br /><.:> <br />o <br />(J:; <br />1'';'' <br /> <br />potential for significant organizational change due to the change of personnel in the federal <br />administration as a result of the recent election, the Council requests that each agency quickly <br />identify with whom the responsibility for salinity control lies within their respective agencies. The <br />agencies should make this information available to the Forum's Executive Director and Advisory <br />Council members at the earliest possible date. <br /> <br />The Council subscribes to the implementation plan described in the 1999 Review. The Council <br />continues to be concerned !.hat insufficient funds are being requested by the federal agencies. This <br />lack of funding continues to cause delays in the implementation of salinity control reduction <br />measures. These are measures !.hat, when in place. will provide substantial cost.effective benetits <br />to the Basin. It is imperative that the federal agencies pro-actively encourage Congress to <br />appropriate the funds necessary to carry out the salinity control activities set forth in the 1999 <br />Review. <br /> <br />Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) <br /> <br />On November 7, 2000. Public Law 106-459 bcxame effective. It increased Reclamation's <br />authority for spending under the Salinity Control Act. The Council commends the States, the <br />Forum and the Department of the Interior for supporting and working to achieve passage of this <br />needed legislation. PL 106-459 increased the COSt ceiling for the Basinwide Program from <br />$75.000.000 to $175.000.000. This increase will allow the Bureau's Basinwide Program to <br />continue uninterrupted for several more years. A copy of PL 106-459 is made a part of this report <br />as Attachment D. <br /> <br />The Council notes mat the Bureau, with a capable staff in the Upper Colorado Region, has been <br />effectively implementing me Basinwide Program. with one exception. When compared with me <br />original Bureau salinity control program. the Basinwide Program is about twice as cost-effective, <br />which means that twice as much sail is removed per available dollar. This Basinwide Program <br />is also much more cost-effective from the federal perspective because the program. as now <br />authorized, allows for the Basin Slates to cost-share up.front. For every $100 of federal funds <br />spent. there is an additional $43 of state funds used by me Bureau in its contracts. <br /> <br />The program has been well accepted by me private sector and this acceptance is very imponant <br />due to the program's reliance on the private sector to implement the program. The exception that <br />me Council finds with respect to effective implementation of the program is due to the reliance of <br /> <br />COLOJUDO RIVER BASlS SALlSln CO.\7ROL AD! '/SORr COC\UL <br /> <br />3 <br />