The director of the department of water resources is hereby authorized and directed to institute negotiations with the United States bureau of reclamation and the senators and representatives representing the state of Idaho in the congress of the United States for purposes of examining the possibility of incorporating an artificial ground water recharge program or project into those water projects for withdrawal of waters from ground water basins in the Coltman area of Bonneville County, the Menan Buttes area in Madison county, or any other area contemplated by the bureau of reclamation, which have been authorized by congress as a part of the Salmon Falls Creek irrigation project located in Twin Falls county.