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<br />o <br />1'.) <br />W <br />1-' <br /> <br />Colorado River Basin as a national conservation priority area at the urging of Congress and the Basin <br />states. For the past few years, since that designation, the federal funding has been at about $5 <br />. million. The Basin states find that under the new EQIP authorization, funding for the USDA salinity <br />control program needs to be at least $13.8 million per year. <br /> <br />The BLM has an important role to play in controlling salt contributions from nonpoint <br />sources from the very sizeable amount offederalland it manages. BLM is required by P.L. 106-459 <br />to submit a status report to Congress on its basinwide salinity control program. When this report is <br />submitted, the salinity control target for BLM will be determined. The Forum has renewed its effort <br />to work with this agency, which has the responsibility to care for vast areas in the Colorado River <br />drainage from which significant amounts of salts are being contributed to the River. <br /> <br />1-6 <br />