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Water Supply Protection
File Number
8270.100
Description
Colorado River Basin Water Quality/Salinity -- Misc Water Quality
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Colorado Mainstem
Water Division
5
Date
1/1/1985
Author
USDOI
Title
Quality of Water - Colorado River Basin - Progress Report No. 12 - January 1985 -- Part 1 of 2 -- Title Page through Part IX - page 128
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Report/Study
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<br />t <br /> <br />...~ <br />N <br />ll::>o <br />'--'t <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />PART I <br /> <br />INTRODUCTION <br /> <br />Following are <br />ments, basically in the <br /> <br />some of the highlights of the legislative amend- <br />order as they appear in the legislation. <br /> <br />Direction has been given to Federal agencies to use <br />cost effectiveness as an underlying decisionmaking <br />criteria as they determine which of the programs or <br />salinity control units should be implemented. <br /> <br />Stage 1 of the Lower Gunnison Basin Unit in Colorado <br />was authorized. <br /> <br />The portions of the McElmo Creek Unit in Colorado <br />which will be constructed in concert with the Dolores <br />Project were authorized. <br /> <br />The Bureau of Land <br />ceed with advance <br />Unit in Colorado. <br /> <br />Management was instructed to pro- <br />planning for the Sinbad Valley <br /> <br />Feasibility studies with industrial water users were <br />authorized as a part of ongoing Saline Water Use and <br />Disposal Opportunities activities. <br /> <br />The Secretary of the lnterior was given authority to <br />enter into contracts with non-Federal entities to <br />organize private canal and lateral owners into formal <br />organization. The Secretary may enter into a grant <br />or contract with owner organizations to construct, <br />operate, and maintain the facilities of a unit. <br /> <br />Authority was given for funds to be spent on measures <br />to replace incidental wildli fe values foregone as <br />the salinity control program is implemented. <br /> <br />The Secreatry of Agriculture was authorized to estab- <br />lish a major voluntary on-farm cooperative salinity <br />control program. With time, the Department of Agri- <br />culture program has the potential of being as impor- <br />tant as the program of the Department of the lnterior <br />in reducing the salinity in the Colorado River Basin. <br /> <br />The Bureau of Land Management was instructed to pre- <br />pare a report by July I, 1987, describing the pro- <br />gram and recommended implementation actions to mini- <br />mize salt contributions to the Colorado River from <br />lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management. <br /> <br />Additional cost sharing for the agriculture program <br />and the newly authorized Department of the Interior <br />programs was also required by the Congress from the <br />Basin States. The 1974 Act has required that there <br /> <br />6 <br />
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