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<br />~ <br />00 <br />o <br />.+::- <br /> <br />developed has not been ettected. BIM needs to ...~lt. d.v.lopment <br />ot that ayat... <br /> <br />The council remains concerned with the Alinity control <br />prograa d.scribed by BUI in its July 1987 report to Congr.... The <br />Council believes that BUI'. report was both inad.quate and <br />unresponsive to the Congr...ion.l directives. The Council <br />recoJDDlend. BUI treat salinity control as a pr1llary objective in the <br />Colorado River Basin. <br /> <br />It has been determined that mor.than 1,000,000 tons of salt <br />must be removed . from the River syst8111 each year by the turn of the <br />century in order to maintain the adopted numeric criteria. The BUt <br />is the largest land manager in the Basin, and lands administered <br />by the BUI are major contributors ot salt to the river. The <br />Council recommends BUI identify salinity control activities, <br />achievable salt load reductions, feasible control actions and the <br />associated costs per ton of those reductions to be carried out with' <br />FY 1990 funding. Further, the Council recommends that BLM allocate <br />adequate funding specifically identified for salinity control. <br /> <br />Fish and Wildlife Service <br /> <br />The council supports the continued coordination between the <br />Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), ReClamation, USDA and EPA in <br />addressing the issue of flsh and wildlife habitat values foregone, <br />and appreciates the efforts made by the FWS in addressing the <br />Council's concerns. <br /> <br />U.S. Geoloaical Survey <br /> <br />The Council believes that it is basically a federal obligation <br />to provide the hydrologic data and interpretive studies required <br />to carry out the objectives of the. salinity control program. The <br />U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) role is to provide information and <br />interpretive studies of water resources on a regional and national <br />level. Operation of many of the monitoring stations is cost shared <br />with the Basin states. The USGS continues to cooperate with <br />Reclamation, USDA and BUI on site-specific assessments of salinity <br />control measures. The Council commends the USGS for its <br />coordination and support role in Salinity control activities such <br />as NASQAN activities at 11 of 20 key locations which Reclamation <br />uses for salinity accounting in the Basin. <br /> <br /><J:'he USGS llX'Ovidesdata on a -number of stations on the river. <br />Reclamation, using data supplied by the USGS, evaluates the data <br />to provide the states, local entities, and the Forum with time- <br /> <br />5, <br />