§ 1593. Planning reports; research and demonstration projects

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 § 203 · 88 Stat. 266

   Enacted · 43 U.S.C. § 1593

   Pub. L. 93–320, title II, § 203, June 24, 1974, 88 Stat. 271

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 93–320, title II, § 203, June 24, 1974, 88 Stat. 271

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 203. (a) The Secretary is authorized and directed to— (1) Expedite completion of the planning reports on the following Planning reports. 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 section Reports. 203(a) (1) of this title 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 Submittal to President and Congress. 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 Research and demonstration projects. 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 title; (2) to undertake research on additional methods for accomplishing the objective of this title, utilizing to the fullest extent practicable the capabilities and resources of other Federal departments and agencies, interstate institutions. States, and private organizations.

2. 1984

   Pub. L. 98–569 § 3 · 98 Stat. 2933

   Added · 43 U.S.C. § 1593(b)(3)(5)

   Pub. L. 98–569 added pars. (3) to (5)

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Subsec. (b)(3) to (5). Pub. L. 98–569 added pars. (3) to (5).

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 3. Section 203(b) of the Act (43 U.S.C. 1593(b)) is amended by— (1) striking out the period at the end of paragraph (2) and inserting in lieu thereof a semicolon; and (2) inserting at the end thereof the following new paragraphs: “(3) to develop a comprehensive program for minimizing salt contributions to the Colorado River from lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management and submit a report which describes the program and recommended implementation actions to the Congress and to the members of the advisory council established by section 204(a) of this title by July 1, 1987; 43 USC 1594. “(4) to undertake feasibility investigations of saline water use and disposal opportunities, including measures and all necessary appurtenant and associated works, to demonstrate saline water use technology and to beneficially use and dispose of saline and brackish waters of the Colorado River Basin in joint ventures with current and future industrial water users, using, but not limited to, the concepts generally described in the Bureau of Reclamation Special Report of September 1981, entitled “Saline water use and disposal opportunities”; and “(5) to undertake advance planning activities on the Sinbad Valley Unit, Colorado, as described in the Bureau of Land Management Salinity Status Report, covering the period 1978–1979 and dated February 1980.”.

   Effective date note
   Amendment by Pub. L. 98–569 effective Oct. 30, 1984, see section 6 of Pub. L. 98–569, set out as a note under section 1591 of this title.

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