International Salinity Control Project, Colorado River

International Salinity Control Project, Colorado River - Authorizes the Secretary of State, 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: (1) 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; (2) accelerate cooperative management programs with the Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation and Drainage District; (3) acquire lands or interest in lands within the Wellton-Mohawk division, Gila project, to reduce the seventy-five thousand irrigable acres known as the Gila River Reauthorization Act, and to dispose of or use such lands or interests therein on terms consistent with the objective of this Act; (4) assist water users in the Wellton-Mohawk Irrigation and Drainage District in installing onfarm systems, as a means of reducing saline drainage flows through improved irrigation efficiencies; (5) reduce repayment obligations of the district to the United States under existing contracts; (6) contract with the Coachella Valley County Water District to provide for reimbursement by the United States for its use of the water saved through the rehabilitation and betterment of the Coachella Canal as a temporary source of water for meeting the obligations of minute numbered 242; (7) reduce repayment obligations of the Imperial Irrigation District to the United States under existing contracts; (8) acquire lands or interest in lands within the Imperial Irrigation District on the East Imperial Mesa which receive, or which have been granted rights to receive, water from the Imperial Irrigation District's capacity in the Coachella Canal and to dispose of or use such lands or interests therein on terms consistent with the obligations of minute numbered 242; and (9) acquire on behalf of the United States such lands or interest in lands in the Painted Rock Reservoir as may be necessary to operate the project in accordance with the obligations of minute numbered 242.

States that unless otherwise specified in this Act, all costs associated with carrying out this Act shall be borne by the United States, except that nothing in number 4 above will relieve water users of costs required to be incurred for complying with the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended.

Authorizes to be appropriated to the Secretary of State for the use of the United States Commissioner, International Boundary and Water Commission, such funds as may be necessary to carry out this Act.