§ 1591. Salinity control policy

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1974

   Pub. L. 93–320 title II § 201 · 88 Stat. 266

   Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 1591

   Pub. L. 93–320, title II, § 201, June 24, 1974, 88 Stat. 270

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 93–320, title II, § 201, June 24, 1974, 88 Stat. 270

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 201. (a) The Secretary of the Interior shall implement the 43 USC 1591. 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), and approved by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on June 9, 1972. (b) 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”. (c) In conformity with section 201 (a) of this title and the authority Interagency cooperation. 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 title.

2. 1984

   Pub. L. 98–569 § 1 · 98 Stat. 2933

   Inserted · 43 U.S.C. § 1591(b)

   Pub. L. 98–569 inserted “In determining the relative priority of implementing additional units or new self-contained portions of units authorized by section 1592 of this title, 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.”

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 98–569 inserted “In determining the relative priority of implementing additional units or new self-contained portions of units authorized by section 1592 of this title, 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.”.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Section 1. Section 201(b) of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act (43 U.S.C. 1591(b)), hereinafter referred to as the “Act , is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: “In determining the relative priority of implementing additional units or new self-contained portions of units authorized by section 202, 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”.

   Effective date note
   Pub. L. 98–569, § 6, Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 2939, provided that: “The amendments made by this Act [amending this section and sections 620d, 1543, 1592, 1593, 1595, and 1598 of this title] shall take effect upon enactment of this Act [Oct. 30, 1984].”

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