S 3094 · 93th Congress · Environmental Protection
International Salinity Control Project, Colorado River
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Introduced2
Committee3
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House5
EnactedLatest: Referred to Senate Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.(1974-03-01)
Plain Language Summary
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International Salinity Control Project, Colorado River - Authorizes the Secretary of State through the Commissioner of the United States Section, International Boundary and Water Commission, who shall consult with the Secretary of the Interior and may delegate such authority to the Secretaries of Agriculture, the Army, and the Interior, and the Administor of the Environmental Protection Agency, to: (1) construct, operate, and maintain a desalting complex, including a deslating plant within the boundaries of the United States and a bypass drain for the discharge of the reject stream from the plant and other Wellton-Mohawk drain water to the Santa Clara Slough in Mexico, with the part in Mexico to be constructed by the appropriate agencies of the Government of Mexico with funds transferred through the Commission; (2) accelerate cooperative management programs with the Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation and Drainage District; (3) acquire lands or interest in lands within the Wellton-Mohawk division, Gila project, to reduce the seventy-five thousand irrigable areas known as the Gila River Reauthorization Act, and to dispose of or use such lands or interests therein on terms consistent with the …
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