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<br />, -, <br />J.-......._ <br /> <br />ohjeclivP') and to expedite planning <br />reports on twelve potential ylinilY <br />conlrol projE'CI'o. <br /> <br />Irrigation Source Control Projech <br /> <br />Lower Gunni~n, Colorado <br />Uinlah Basin, Utah <br />Colorado River Indian Reservation, <br />Arizona <br />Palo VerdE' Irrigation District <br />California <br /> <br />Point Source Control Projech <br /> <br />la Verkin Springs, Utah <br />Lilllefield Springs, Arizona <br />Glenwood-[){)(sero Springs, Colorado <br /> <br />Diffuse Source Conlrol Projech <br /> <br />Price River, Utah <br />San Rafael River, Utah <br />Dirty Devil River, Utah <br />McElmo Crt't'k. Colorado <br />Big Sandy River, Wyoming <br /> <br />In ff'Cognilion of FE'deral <br />responsibilitv fOf lh(' Colorado Riv('f <br />dS an imerstalf' Slream .and for <br />international comity with Mexico, the <br />.let declarro that 75 percent of the <br />costs of thro iour authorized ylinlly <br />control projects are to be <br />non-reimbursable. The remaining 25 <br />per(l'nt of thl' costs are to be repaid <br />OVl'r a 5().vear period, without <br />inlt'resl, from the lower Colorado <br />River Bdsin De\-elopment Fund and <br />thl> Uppt'r Colorado River Basin Fund. <br />The St'Crf'larv is directed 10 allocate <br />the costs of the four authorized <br />projl'C!S between the two funds with <br />a limitation of no more than 15 <br />percent of the non-federal share to be <br />cltlocaled to the Upper Basin fund. <br />The lower Basin fund will receive the <br />bulk of its revenues from power <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />r('venuf'S after complt'tion of the <br />repayment of the Boulder Canyon and <br />Parker-Davis projects, The Upper <br />Basin fund receh..es most of its <br />rev{'nut's from the hvdroelectric <br />Droiects in the Upper Basin. <br />Currf'nt f'stimates are thaI the <br />Bureau of Reclamation will complete <br />Its advance planning on the four <br />authorized salinity control projects so <br />that construction could commenCt> in <br />fiscal year 1976-77. <br /> <br />r-. <br />-- <br />, -~--- <br /> <br />I <br />, <br />I <br />. <br />I <br />I <br /> <br />Colorado Ri~pr Salim(V StJndard, <br /> <br />I N E V <br />. <br />I <br />, <br />'\ -Carson City <br /> '\ <br /> , <br /> '\ <br /> '\ <br /> , <br /> '\ <br /> '\ <br /> \ <br /> <br />The Board's 1973 Annual Report <br />rt'viewed the eiforts of the <br />Environmental Protection Agency <br />tEPA I to have the Colorado River <br />Basin states set salinity standards for <br />Colorado River and rE'ported that Ihe <br />..tdtes respondt"d 10 these efforts by <br />forming the Colorado RivE'r Bosin <br />SalinIty Control Forum, During 1974, <br />the Forum held several meetings with <br />representatiws of EPA to discuss its <br />propo<.ed rpgulation on Colorado <br />River salinitv which would r('Quire the <br />states to adopt water quality standards <br />for saliMy .md submit them to EPA <br />by Oclotx-r 18, 1975. The propo<;ed <br />regulation was first published in the <br />Floodf'ral Register on lune 1 J, 1974. <br />and. <liter h('arings, the findl regulation <br />was publisht>d in the Federal RpgistN <br />on D('(ember 18, 1974. <br />The rl~ulation states that the policy <br />..hall be that the salinilY of the laWN <br />Colorado Rivt'r "hall be maintained at <br />Of belo.... the 1972 Sdlinsty levels. To <br />eHeet this policy, numerical salinitv <br />critt'ria dnd a plan to dchit've <br />compliance therewith shall be <br />dt'vt'loped and implemented. The plan <br />is to treat tht' salinitv problt'm as a <br />basinwide problt'm \...herein the <br />prescribed salinitv cntt'ria arf' to be <br />met whilE' Ihe baSin stat~ conlinue to <br />dt'\ elop their compacl apportioned <br />wdters, Salinitv mdY temporarily rise <br />above 1972 levE'ls if control measures <br />to oifset thE' incred~ art' induded in <br />the control plan. E.nly in 1974, the <br />Forum appointed a fivt'-man .....ork <br />Rroup with rt'prt'Sentdtion from both <br />the Upper dnd lo....er Basins to <br />de\'elop proposals for numerical <br /> <br />(> <br />-1( <br />/",. <br />t; <br /> <br /> <br />Co\0f1cr <br />Palm <br />Springs~ <br />SALTI <br />, <br />