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Show APPENDIX XIV XIV 3 1401 93d CONGRESS 2d Session H.R. 12834 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FEBRUARY 14, 1974 Mr. HALEY (by request) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs A BILL To authorize the measures necessary to carry out the provisions of minute numbered 242 of the International Boundary and Water Commission, concluded pursuant to the Water Treaty of 1944 with Mexico (TIAS 994), entitled "Permanent and Definitive Solution to the International Problem of the Salinity of the Colorado River." Whereas minute numbered 242 has been concluded under the authority of the Water Treaty of 1944; and Whereas the United States Section, International Boundary and Water Commission, is the United States agency designated in the Water Treaty of 1944 to undertake the works necessary on the part of the United States to implement the treaty, or other agreements in force between the two governments dealing with boundaries and boundary waters; and Whereas the measures necessary to implement minute numbered 242 include a desalting complex that extends on both sides of the boundary between the United States and Mexico in addition to works located wholly within the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of State is authorized, 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 Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to: (a) Construct, operate, and maintain a desalting complex, including a desalting 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. (b) Accelerate cooperative management programs with the Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation and Drainage District for the purpose of reducing saline drainage flows by improving irrigation efficiency. The district shall pay for its share of the costs of such cooperative programs. (c) Acquire to the extent determined by him to be necessary, lands or interest in lands within the Wellton-Mohawk division, Gila project, to reduce the seventy-five thousand irrigable acres authorized by |
