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<br />. <br /> <br />[to] assess the environmental, social, and economic impacts of <br /> <br /> <br />any change in use of currently utilized water resource that may be <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />requi red by the proposed faci 1 i ty or process..." The sport and <br />.... <br />-.J commercial fisheries found in various types of aquatic habitat and <br />r' <br />.r.::. the water-related recreation activities making use of lakes and <br /> <br />streams are part of the environmental, social, and economic aspects <br /> <br />mentioned in number (6). <br /> <br />2. Development of Appropriate Methodology <br /> <br />The determination of the fish and recreation potential in relation <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />to flowing streams is of particular significance in assessment of <br /> <br /> <br />water available from such sources for any use, including require- <br /> <br /> <br />ments for emerging energy technologies (EET's). In carrying out its <br /> <br /> <br />section 13(a) responsibil ities, therefore, the WRC on August 31, <br /> <br /> <br />1976 signed a Memorandum of Agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wild- <br /> <br /> <br />life Service (FWS) to enable the latter to develop a suitable <br /> <br /> <br />methodology. The FWS, acting through its Cooperative Instream Flow <br /> <br /> <br />Service Group (CIFSG), developed such a methodology which is des- <br /> <br /> <br />cribed in a paper titled "Regional Reconnaissance Methodology to <br /> <br /> <br />Determine Instream Flow Effects for Water Availability Energy <br /> <br /> <br />Assessments under Section 13(a) of the Federal Nonnuclear Act" March <br /> <br /> <br />1978. (1)'" The proposed methodology makes it possible to evaluate <br /> <br /> <br />the relative impacts of developing new energy technologies upon fish <br /> <br />N <br />... '" Numbers ( ) refer to <br /> <br />entries in bibliography. <br /> <br />2 <br />