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to.) O':l The following additional actions were recommended in the interest of ~ orderly and progressive development in the Colorado River Basin and other ~ river basins in both the United States and Mexico. 1. An agreement between the United States and Mexico on ground- water pumping. 2. Full implementation of the proposed arrangements which are being worked out for exchange of information and technical expertise on desalting and geothermal development. 3. Additional arrangements for exchange of information and techni- cal expertise on farm management and irrigation practices in the Colorado River Basin. It may be desirable to provide for such exchanges under the aegis of the International Boundary and Water Commission. . 4. Timely decisions in regard to implementation of specific actions to control salinity increases in the Colorado River Basin. 5. Continuation of efforts to achieve augmentation of the Colorado Ri ver. D. Minute No. 242 and Public Law 93-320 On August 30, 1973, the joint recommendations of the special representa- tive designated by President Nixon, Herbert Brownell, Jr" and the Secre- tary of Foreign Relations of Mexico, Lie. Emilio O. Rabasa, were approved by their respective Presidents, and formally approved by the two Govern- ments, and incorporated into Minute No. 242 of the International Boundary and Water Commission (terminating the life of Minute No. 241). Minute' No. 242 is reproduced herein as Appendix B, Minute No. 242, in effect to date, provides that the approximately 1,360,000 acre-feet of the Treaty water annually delivered to Mexico upstream of Morelos Dam have an annual average salinity of no more than. 115+30 p/m over the annual average salinity of Colorado River water arriv- i ng-at Imperi al Dam. It further provi des for the deli very to Mexi co on the land boundary at San Luis and in the Limitrophe Section of the Colorado River downstream from Morelos Dam approximately 140,000 acre-feet of water annually, with a salinity substantially the same as that of waters cus- tomarily delivered there. As part of the measures required to maintain this salinity differential, the Minute provides that the concrete-lined Main Outlet Drain Extension be extended from Morelos Dam to the Santa Clara Slough in Mexico 'at the expense of the United States. Those provisions of the Minute which were dependent for their implemen- tation on construction of works or on other measures which required expen- diture of funds by the United States became effective upon authorization by the United States Congress and notification by the United States to Mexico of such authorization. This authorization was encompassed in 7