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43 U.S.C. § 1591 — Salinity control policy
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**(a) Implementation by Secretary of the Interior** The Secretary of the Interior shall implement the salinity control policy adopted for the Colorado River in the “Conclusions and Recommendations” published in the Proceedings of the Reconvened Seventh Session of the Conference in the Matter of Pollution of the Interstate Waters of the Colorado River and Its Tributaries in the States of California, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Wyoming, held in Denver, Colorado, on April 26–27, 1972, under the authority of section 10 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ([33 U.S.C. 1160](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section1160&num=0&edition=prelim)), and approved by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on June 9, 1972.
**(b) Expeditious investigation, planning, and implementation of salinity control program** The Secretary is hereby directed to expedite the investigation, planning, and implementation of the salinity control program generally as described in chapter VI of the Secretary’s report entitled, “Colorado River Water Quality Improvement Program, February 1972”. In determining the relative priority of implementing additional units or new self-contained portions of units authorized by [section 1592 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1592&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary or the Secretary of Agriculture, as the case may be, shall give preference to those additional units or new self-contained portions of units which reduce salinity of the Colorado River at the least cost per unit of salinity reduction.
**(c) Cooperation with other Federal agencies** In conformity with subsection (a) and the authority of the Environmental Protection Agenc
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**(a) Implementation by Secretary of the Interior** The Secretary of the Interior shall implement the salinity control policy adopted for the Colorado River in the “Conclusions and Recommendations” published in the Proceedings of the Reconvened Seventh Session of the Conference in the Matter of Pollution of the Interstate Waters of the Colorado River and Its Tributaries in the States of California, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Wyoming, held in Denver, Colorado, on April 26–27, 1972, under the authority of section 10 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ([33 U.S.C. 1160](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section1160&num=0&edition=prelim)), and approved by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on June 9, 1972.
**(b) Expeditious investigation, planning, and implementation of salinity control program** The Secretary is hereby directed to expedite the investigation, planning, and implementation of the salinity control program generally as described in chapter VI of the Secretary’s report entitled, “Colorado River Water Quality Improvement Program, February 1972”. In determining the relative priority of implementing additional units or new self-contained portions of units authorized by [section 1592 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1592&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary or the Secretary of Agriculture, as the case may be, shall give preference to those additional units or new self-contained portions of units which reduce salinity of the Colorado River at the least cost per unit of salinity reduction.
**(c) Cooperation with other Federal agencies** In conformity with subsection (a) and the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency under Federal laws, the Secretary, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Secretary of Agriculture are directed to cooperate and coordinate their activities effectively to carry out the objective of this subchapter.
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**(a) Authority of Secretary** The Secretary is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain the following salinity control units and salinity control programs as the initial stage of the Colorado River Basin salinity control program:
(1) The Paradox Valley unit, Montrose County, Colorado, consisting of facilities for collection and disposition of saline ground water of Paradox Valley, including wells, pumps, pipelines, solar evaporation ponds, and all necessary appurtenant and associated works such as roads, fences, dikes, power transmission facilities, and permanent operating facilities, and consisting of measures to replace incidental fish and wildlife values foregone.
(2) The Grand Valley unit, Colorado, consisting of measures and all necessary appurtenant and associated works to reduce the seepage of irrigation water from the irrigated lands of Grand Valley into the ground water and thence into the Colorado River. Measures shall include lining of canals and laterals, replacing canals and laterals with pipe, and the combining of existing canals and laterals into fewer and more efficient facilities implementing other measures to reduce salt contributions from the Grand Valley to the Colorado River, and implementing measures to replace incidental fish and wildlife values foregone..11 So in original. Prior to initiation of construction of the Grand Valley unit, or portion thereof, the Secretary shall enter into contracts through which the non-Federal entities owning, operating, and maintaining the water distribution systems, or portions thereof, in Grand Valley, singly or in concert, will assume the obligations specified in subsection (b)(2) relating to the continued operation and maintenance of the unit’s facilities to the end that the maximum reduction of salinit
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**(a) Establishment** There is hereby established a separate fund in the Treasury of the United States to be known as the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund (hereafter called the “development fund”), which shall remain available until expended as hereafter provided.
**(b) Appropriations**
(1) All appropriations made for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of subchapter III of this chapter shall be credited to the development fund as advances from the general fund of the Treasury, and shall be available for such purpose.
(2) Except as provided in [section 1528(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1528/b&num=0&edition=prelim), sums advanced by non-Federal entities for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of subchapter III of this chapter shall be credited to the development fund and shall be available without further appropriation for such purpose.
**(c) Revenues credited to fund** There shall also be credited to the development fund—
(1) all revenues collected in connection with the operation of facilities authorized in subchapter III in furtherance of the purposes of this chapter (except entrance, admission, and other recreation fees or charges and proceeds received from recreation concessionaires), until completion of repayment requirements of the Central Arizona project;
(2) any Federal revenues from the Boulder Canyon and Parker-Davis projects which, after completion of repayment requirements of the said Boulder Canyon and Parker-Davis projects, are surplus, as determined by the Secretary, to the operation, maintenance, and replacement requirements of those projects: Provided, however, That for the Boulder Canyon project commencing June 1, 1987, and for the Parker-Davis project comme
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**(a)** The Secretary is authorized and directed to—
(1) Expedite completion of the planning reports on the following units, described in the Secretary’s report, “Colorado River Water Quality Improvement Program, February 1972”;
(i) Irrigation source control:Lower Gunnison Uintah Basin Colorado River Indian Reservation Palo Verde Irrigation District
(ii) Point source control:LaVerkin Springs Littlefield Springs Glenwood-Dotsero Springs
(iii) Diffuse source control:Price River San Rafael River Dirty Devil River McElmo Creek Big Sandy River
(2) Submit each planning report on the units named in paragraph (1) of this subsection promptly to the Colorado River Basin States and to such other parties as the Secretary deems appropriate for their review and comments. After receipt of comments on a unit and careful consideration thereof, the Secretary shall submit each final report with his recommendations, simultaneously, to the President, other concerned Federal departments and agencies, the Congress, and the Colorado River Basin States.
**(b)** The Secretary is directed—
(1) in the investigation, planning, construction, and implementation of any salinity control unit involving control of salinity from irrigation sources, to cooperate with the Secretary of Agriculture in carrying out research and demonstration projects and in implementing on-the-farm improvements and farm management practices and programs which will further the objective of this subchapter;
(2) to undertake research on additional methods for accomplishing the objective of this subchapter, utilizing to the fullest extent practicable the capabilities and resources of other Federal departments and agencies, interstate institutions, States, and private organizations;
(3) to develop a comprehensive pro
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**(a) Allocation of costs** The Secretary shall allocate the total costs (excluding costs borne by non-Federal participants) of the on-farm measures authorized by [section 1592(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1592/c&num=0&edition=prelim), of all measures to replace incidental fish and wildlife values foregone, and of each unit or separable feature thereof authorized by [section 1592(a) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1592/a&num=0&edition=prelim), as follows:
(1) **Nonreimbursable costs; reimbursable costs.—**
(A) *Nonreimbursable costs.—*
(i) *In general.—* — In recognition of Federal responsibility for the Colorado River as an interstate stream and for international comity with Mexico, Federal ownership of the land of the Colorado River Basin from which most of the dissolved salts originate, and the policy established in the Federal Water Pollution Control Act ([33 U.S.C. 1251](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title33-section1251&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.) and except as provided in clause (ii), the following shall be nonreimbursable:
(I) 75 percent of the total costs of construction and replacement of each unit or separable feature of a unit authorized by [section 1592(a)(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1592/a/1&num=0&edition=prelim), including 90 percent of—
(aa) the costs of operation and maintenance of each unit or separable feature of a unit authorized by that section; and
(bb) the total costs of construction, operation, and maintenance of the associated measures to replace incidental fish and wildlife values foregone.
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**(a) Modification of projects** The Secretary is authorized to provide for modifications of the projects authorized by this subchapter as determined to be appropriate for purposes of meeting the objective of this subchapter. No funds for any such modification shall be expended until the expiration of sixty days after the proposed modification has been submitted to appropriate committees of the Congress, except that funds may be expended prior to the expiration of such sixty days in any case in which the Congress approves an earlier date by concurrent resolution. The Governors of the Colorado River Basin States shall be notified of these changes.
**(b) Contract authority; authorization of appropriations** The Secretary is hereby authorized to enter into contracts that he deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this subchapter, in advance of the appropriation of funds therefor. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $125,100,000 for the construction of the works and for other purposes authorized in section 1592(a) or (b) of this title, based on April 1973 prices, plus or minus such amounts as may be justified by reason of ordinary fluctuations in costs involved therein, and such sums as may be required to operate and maintain such works. The funds authorized to be appropriated by this section may be used for construction of any or all of the works or portions thereof and for other purposes authorized in subsection (a), including measures as provided for in subsection (b) of [section 1592 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section1592&num=0&edition=prelim). There is further authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to pay condemnation awards in excess of appraised values and to co
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**(a) Authorization and availability** There is authorized a separate fund in the Treasury of the United States to be known as the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund (hereinafter referred to as the Basin Fund), which shall remain available until expended, as hereafter provided, for carrying out provisions of this chapter other than [section 620g of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section620g&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Crediting of appropriations** All appropriations made for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter, other than [section 620g of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title43-section620g&num=0&edition=prelim) shall be credited to the Basin Fund as advances from the general fund of the Treasury.
**(c) Crediting and availability of revenues** All revenues collected in connection with the operation of the Colorado River storage project and participating projects shall be credited to the Basin Fund, and shall be available, without further appropriation, for (1) defraying the costs of operation, maintenance, and replacements of, and emergency expenditures for, all facilities of the Colorado River storage project and participating projects, within such separate limitations as may be included in annual appropriation acts: Provided, That with respect to each participating project, such costs shall be paid from revenues received from each such project; (2) payment as required by subsection (d) of this section; and (3) payment as required by subsection (e) of this section. Revenues credited to the Basin Fund shall not be available for appropriation for construction of the units and participating projects authorized by or pursuant to this chapter.
**(d) Payments of
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TITLE 43—PUBLIC LANDS
§ 1592
(Pub. L. 93–320, title I, § 110, as added Pub. L.
96–336, § 6, Sept. 4, 1980, 94 Stat. 1064.)
§ 1580. Definitions
As used in this subchapter:
(a) Navajo Generating Station means—
(1) the United States entitlement to a por-
tion of the output of power and energy from
the Navajo Generating Station, Page, Ari-
zona, pursuant to United States participa-
tion in that generating station;
(2) in the event that said United States en-
titlement is integrated with other gener-
ating facilities, then Navajo Generating Sta-
tion means that amount of power and energy
from the integrated system which is attrib-
utable to the United States Navajo entitle-
ment;
(3) when the Navajo Generating Station is
replaced at the end of its useful life or an al-
ternative resource is established, then Nav-
ajo Generating Station means an amount of
power and energy equivalent to the present
United States entitlement from Navajo,
from the replacement resource.
(b) All terms used herein that are defined in
the Colorado River Compact shall have the
meanings therein defined.
(Pub. L. 93–320, title I, § 111, as added Pub. L.
96–336, § 7, Sept. 4, 1980, 94 Stat. 1065.)
SUBCHAPTER II—MEASURES UPSTREAM
FROM IMPERIAL DAM
§ 1591. Salinity control policy
(a) Implementation by Secretary of the Interior
The Secretary of the Interior shall implement
the salinity control policy adopted for the Colo-
rado River in the ‘‘Conclusions and Rec-
ommendations’’ published in the Proceedings of
the Reconvened Seventh Session of the Con-
ference in the Matter of Pollution of the Inter-
state Waters of the Colorado River and Its Trib-
utaries in the States of California, Colorado,
Utah, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Wyo-
ming, held in Denver, Colorado, on Apri
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