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Title 43, Public LandsRelease 119-110

§1591 Salinity Control Policy

Title 43 › CHAPTER 32A — COLORADO RIVER BASIN SALINITY CONTROL › SUBCHAPTER II — MEASURES UPSTREAM FROM IMPERIAL DAM › § 1591

Last updated Sep 22, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Interior must carry out the Colorado River salinity control plan agreed at the April 26–27, 1972 conference and approved by the EPA on June 9, 1972. The Secretary must speed up the study, planning, and building of the program described in the February 1972 Colorado River Water Quality Improvement Program. When picking additional units authorized by section 1592, the Secretary or the Secretary of Agriculture must favor those that reduce salinity at the lowest cost per unit. The Interior Secretary, the EPA Administrator, and the Agriculture Secretary must work together and coordinate their actions to meet these goals.

Full Legal Text

Title 43, §1591

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(a)Implementation by Secretary of the Interior (b) Expeditious investigation, planning, and implementation of salinity control program
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), and approved by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on June 9, 1972.
(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.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, referred to in subsec. (a), which was formerly classified to chapter 23 (§ 1151 et seq.) of Title 33, Navigation and Navigable Waters, was revised generally by Pub. L. 92–500, Oct. 18, 1972, 86 Stat. 816, and is classified generally to chapter 25 (§ 1251 et seq.) of Title 33.

Amendments

1984—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.”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1984 Amendment Pub. L. 98–569, § 6, Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 2939, provided that: “The

Amendments

made by this Act [amending this section and section 620d, 1543, 1592, 1593, 1595, and 1598 of this title] shall take effect upon enactment of this Act [Oct. 30, 1984].”

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

43 U.S.C. § 1591

Title 43, Public Lands

Last Updated

Sep 22, 2026

Release point: 119-110