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~ -...] t: <=> Reclamation Budget Requests The amounts Included In thellscal year 1983 budget submitted tOlhe Cofl9ress lor Title II of Public Law 93--320 are shown In companSOf110 the amounts In the 11seal year 1982 "",,get ConslruCllon Grand VaHey Unit Las Vegas Wash Unit ParadO~ Valley Unit TOIaI General In...esfigallOns Plan Formulation Engll'leenng & Researcn Cenler LoW'€'r Colorado Region Upper CoiQrado Region Total FY 1982 FY 1963 S 8.B09.0c0 151.537 2286.996 $11.247.533 S 8.902.000 973,00:) 6.401.CO) $16.276.000 921.193 242.365 4165.0c0 S 5.328.558 795.00J 175,OOJ 4,808.COO 5.776,000 S 300.000 Palo Verde Imgalion Advance Planning' Includes Lower Gunnison BasIn, McEJmo Creek., Uinta Basin. DIstrict. Salme Waler Use and Disposal Opportunities UMS USDA Budget Requests The USDA has released proposed budgelllgures lor FY 1983 They are Shown In comparlson!o FY 1982llguresatte:stlng to the cuI USDA has had Inmoslolthelr agencies" programs Sotl Conservation Service (SCS) Techmcal assistance River baSin sludoes Agncullural Stat>ihzahon and Conservation ServICe {Ases) Cost share practices Agricultural Research ServIce (AAS) Cooperative State Researcn ServICe (GS-RSl Extension Service (ES) Price-San Rafael Rivers Unit Act'\llt.es to wnfy the salt loading mechanism In the Pnce-San Rafael RI~ Unit area WIll be9ln early In Apnl The contractor. by that time, WIll nave completed the Problem Identification and OuantlfiCatlOf'l Report, which presents the results of their ~udy FY 1962 FY 1963 $ S16.CXXI 269.00J SSOO.OOJ o SJ.700,00J 850.00J 336.00J 936.00J 161,{XXJ 250.00J o o Lower Gunnison Basin Reclamation and the Soli Conservation ServIce are ell.pIonng the potential of haVIng the USDA E.x1ensK)l'l ServICe assISt "'1m onlarm actiVItIeS and water conservation A ptIase I test section for a membrane lining In a canal nas been set aside lor study In the lower Gunnison Basin . .., .. USDA Virgin Valley Area Report Completed USDA has Just completed the second part of the Virgin River salimty confrol study of the Virgin Valley in Arizona. Nevada. and Utah The first part was Moapa Valley Subevaluatlon Unit In Nevada published In February 1981 TIllS second report. '"Salinity Contro! and Environmental Assessment. Virgin Valley Subevaluatlon Unit (NV-Al)" was published In March 1982 The study IdentllleS alternative solutions for reducing sail Joadlngs to the Colorado River from Imgated agriculture and other dlHuse salt "'"''''' The Virgin A"/er onglnates In Utah and flows through Arizona and Nevada enroute to lake Mead on the Colorado River Irngated agnculture In the subevaluatlon area tOtals 4,EaJ acres, With 3.50) acres Irngaled bysurlace methOOs and 1.100acres Irngated by more eHIClenl sprinkler and drip methocls Virgin River average annual salt load contributions are 426.COJ tons lmpleme,-,tat,on oltne recommended plan 'or thiS area can reduce salt loadings by 3720J tons annually The reduCtlOllS will corne from An Improved 64 mllesollmgatedcanal delivery system (6.BO'J Ions) 2 3.500 acres of onfarm Imgatl()l1 water management Improvements increasing eHIC~1€$ from 44 to62 percent (30.300 tons) 3 Minor sediment reductons from Imgat!on management (100 tonsl ImplernentallOfl Will locus on semi. automated Of1tarm IrngatlOn systems at $1.937,0).) construction costs, Improved canal delivery systems at $733.COJ. and technical assistance In the amount 01 S4X1.COJ The total costsoISJ.100.00Jwould be over a lD-year Implementation penod Based on a 4 mg'L reduction In salinity conceotratlQn at Impenal Dam. downstream annual benefits WIll total 52.(62,400. WIth onlarm benefits lotahng $11980) r:oer year CapleS 01 the publiShed fepor1 are available througl"l the USDA, Soil ConservatlQfl ServICe. PO Box 4850. 50 South Virginia Street. Reno, NV B9505