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<br />be carried out. The Plan of Implementation includes: <br /> <br />1. <br /> <br />Completion of Reclamation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Bureau of Land <br />Management salinity control measures to the extent that each unit remains viable and <br />appropriately cost-effective. <br /> <br />o <br />tv <br />..... <br />00 <br /> <br />2. <br /> <br />Implementation of the Fonun's recommended and adopted policies for effluent <br />limitations, principally under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System <br />(NPDES) permit program established by Section 402 of the Clean Water Act as <br />amended. The implemented policies (included in Appendix B of this Review) are <br />the following: <br /> <br />"Policy for Implementation of Colorado River Salinity Standards Through the <br />NPDES Permit Program;"2 <br /> <br />"Policy for Use of Brackish and/or Saline Waters for Industrial Purposes;" <br /> <br />"Policy for Implementation of the Colorado River Salinity Standards Through <br />the NPDES Permit Program for Intercepted Ground Water;" and <br /> <br />"Policy for Implementation of the Colorado River Salinity Standards Through <br />the NPDES Permit Program for Fish Hatcheries." <br /> <br />3. Implementation of nonpoint source management plans developed by the states and <br />approved by EP A. <br /> <br />Item I of the plan listed above is to be implemented by federal agencies in conjunction with <br />state, local, and private participants. The Fonun works jointly with federal agencies on developing <br />measures to be implemented. The Fonun also urges Congress to ensure that the funds necessary to <br />successfully fulfill this Plan of Implementation are appropriated as needed. Items 2 and 3 above are <br />primarily implemented by each of the Basin states. <br /> <br />Major components of this Review's Plan of Implementation are the federal programs. <br />Table 1 summarizes the salinity control measures in place by federal participants through 2001 <br />(800,000 tons). Salinity control measures leading to the removal of an additional I ,000,000 tons per <br />year of salt must be implemented by 2020 to meet the Program goal of approximately 1.8. million <br />tons of salt-load reduction annually. The adopted Plan of Implementation requires federal <br />appropriations to Reclamation of at least $1 0.5 million and USDA of at least $13.8 million annually. <br />The federal programs are described in detail in Chapter 4 of this Review. <br /> <br />2The Policy for Implementation of Colorado River Salinity Standards Through the NPDES Penuit Program was revised on <br />October 30,2002, <br /> <br />vi <br />