Assistance program
Title II, Colorado River Basin Salinity Control
$108.9 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Bureau of Reclamation, Interior, Department of the
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements (Discretionary Grants)
- CFDA number
- 15.509
- What it does
- To provide financial and technical assistance to: (1) identify salt source areas; (2) develop project plans to carry out conservation practices to reduce salt loads; (3) install conversation practices to reduce salinity levels; (4) carry out research, education, and demonstration activities; (5) carry out monitoring and devaluation activities; and (6) to decrease salt concentration and salt loading which causes increased salinity levels within the Colorado River and to enhance the supply and quality of water available for use in the United States and the Republic of Mexico. Such programs shall consist of cost-effective measures and associated works to reduce salinity from saline springs, leaking wells, irrigation sources, industrial sources, erosion of public and private land, or other sources.
- Who benefits
- Any person who uses or reuses Colorado River water for irrigation, domestic, municipal or industrial water supply, or for fish and wildlife habitat will benefit.
- Who applies
- Any legal entity that is the owner or operator of the features to be replaced and/or to be constructed and capable of contracting with Reclamation.
- Authorized by
- Public Law 93-320, 59 Stat. 1219, 43 U.S. C. 1571-1573 and U.S.C. 1592(c), as amended; Sec. 2, Pub. L. 98-569 , 98 Stat, 43 U.S.C. 1592(c); Sec. 1, Pub. L. 104-20, 43 U.S.C. 1592; Title III, Subtitle D, Chapter 4, Pub. L. 104-127, 110 Stat.1006; Pub. L. 106-459, 114 Stat. 1987.
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
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