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<br />o <br />N <br />...... <br />C.P <br /> <br />The Plan of Implementation is designed to control enough salt to maintain the numeric <br />criteria under a long-term mean water supply of 15 million acre-feet per year. It is recognized that <br />the Colorado River system is subject to highly variable flows. Consequently, salinity will vary from <br />year to year and may temporarily exceed the adopted numeric criteria in some years and remain well <br />below the criteria in others. <br /> <br />Table 1 <br />Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program <br />Plan of Implementation <br />By 2020 <br />(Values in Tons of Salt Load Reduction Per Year) <br /> <br />I I MEASURES POTENTIAL <br />AGENCY IN PLACE NEW TOTAL <br /> (2001) MEASURES <br /> Bureau of 482,000 500,000 982,000 <br /> Reclamation <br /> U.S. Department 318,000 437,000 755,000 <br /> of Agnculture <br /> Bureau of <br /> Land <br /> Managemenf <br /> Unidentified 0 63,000 63,000 <br /> TOTAL 800,000 1,000,000 1,800,000 <br /> <br />Salinity concentrations at the three stations on the Lower Colorado River in 2001 were: <br /> <br />Station <br /> <br />Salinity <br />Concentration' <br />in mgIL <br /> <br />Below Hoover Dam <br />Below Parker Dam <br />At Imperial Dam <br /> <br />587 <br />589 <br />681 <br /> <br />3BLM is required by P.L. 106-459 to submit a status report to Congress on its basinwide salinity control <br />program. When this report is submitted, the salinity coutrol target for BLM will be determined. <br /> <br />'Flow-weighted average data based on 200 I provisional records. <br /> <br />vii <br /> <br />,)il., . ;~ <br />