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Show Salinity board officers named The following officials have recently been named nam-ed to a salinity control coordinating committee for the Uintah Basin; John Marstella, Soil Conservation Con-servation Service; Joe Austin, Extension Service; Ser-vice; Lyle Taylor, Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation District; Lynn Hall, Bureau of Indian Affairs; Dennis Montgomery, Farmers Home Administration; Ad-ministration; Mark Beutler, WPRS; Ron Garst, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Darrel Nish, Utah Wildlife Service Ser-vice and Merrill Mecham, County Commissioners. Com-missioners. The committee commit-tee has organized with Mr. Marstella as chairman chair-man and Mr. Montgomery Mon-tgomery as secretary. , The duties of the committee com-mittee are to recommend project areas in the Uintah Uin-tah Basin to receive approximately ap-proximately $2 million of Agricultural Conservation Conserva-tion funds to reduce salinity by improving irrigation ir-rigation systems. The committee will also recommend practices to receive cost-share and monitoring systems to measure the salinity. The first meeting of the committee com-mittee will be held Jan. 21 at the Agricultural Ser-cice Ser-cice Center in Roosevelt. |