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<br />implementation to occur, thc Forum continues to urge the <br /> <br />Department, the Ad~inistration, and Congress to establish <br />o <br />~ necessary legislative authority for a separate Colorado <br />0') <br />"" River Salinity Control Program to be funded under the <br /> <br />Secretary of Agriculture. <br /> <br />Research and Edllcation - In FY 1983, the Agricultural <br /> <br />Research Service (ARS) received an. additional $600,000 <br /> <br />funding to expand upon salinity related rasearch. Through <br /> <br />the efforts of various ARB salinity and water conservation <br /> <br />research facilities, an expanded salin~ty research effort has <br /> <br />been initiated. <br /> <br />This research effort while targeted for <br /> <br />Colorado River s2linity control, vlill provide research <br /> <br />information and improved technology which will benefit other <br /> <br />national salinity ilct!.vities. Ongoing ".ctivities on new and <br /> <br />developing irrigation techniq~es such as oablegation and <br /> <br />level-basin irrigation systems in Grand Valley have proven <br /> <br />quite successful. Tje ~ucce3sful us~ of saline or brackish <br /> <br />drainage return flOW '1ator in cvntrolled field experiments in <br /> <br />the San JOe.quin 2.od Imperial Valleys will also be useful in <br /> <br />the Colorado River B~sin. <br /> <br />The Cooperative St2tc Ressaroh Service (CSRS) and the <br /> <br />State agrlc~ltura]. exrycriment stations in the West have a <br /> <br />regional research project through which cooperative research <br /> <br />is planned and ,earr'ied out. <br /> <br />The project l<nown as "The <br /> <br />Physico-Chemical Ba~is for ManagIng Salt-Affected Soils" and <br /> <br />is aimed at understandiug physical Bnd chemical factors that <br /> <br />affect the reclamation of soil and geolo6~c materials, and <br /> <br />-22- <br /> <br />"1J <br />