WSP11290

• File Number: 8220.126.A
• Description: San Miguel Project
• State: CO
• Basin: San Juan/Dolores
• Water Division: 4
• Date: 9/3/1963
• Title: Application to National Rivers & Harbors Congress for Classificaton of Project
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Project Overview

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2. The purpose of assigning such ratinEs is to develop our strategic reserve of inland
water transport and to aid local, State and Federal Governments to assess the value of the
contribution by a project to such reserve so that it may have weight in the over all evaluation
of the project. A further purpose is to promote a more general recognition of the necessity
for developing adequate inland transport as a vital element in our defense planning.
3. A high Strategic Value Rating is not necessary to the complete economic justification
of a project, but such a rating may serve to justify a project not otherwise justifiable.
4. In general, the Committee will include in its definition of "strategic value" any existing
or potential use, service or feature of a navigation project which may be reasonably expected
to importantly and specifically contribute to the defense potential of the United States, either
military or civilian, with respect to its over all rail, highway, waterway and air transport
network.
5. The Strategic Value Rating "X", signifying that the Committee has made no deter-
mination of its strategic value, will be assigned to each project heretofore or hereafter listed
in one of the five divisions of the economic classification, unless and until the Committee has
assigned to the project a specific Strategic Value Rating pursuant to a separate application
made by the proponents for such a rating. In such case, the listing of the project in the eco-
nomic division to which it has been assigned will carry its Strategic Value Rating-as, for
example, SVR-C.
6. No fixed form for applications for the strategic value rating of a project are prescribed.
They should be by letter to the Executive Vice President, and should comprise data and argu-
ment. Such applications are subject to the applicable provisions of Projects Committee Rule
6c. Ordinarily the Committee will require appearance of one or more of the sponsor applicants
in support of the application.
7. All applications for a Strategic Value Rating must be accompanied by, or must have
been preceded by, a separate application for the usual economic classification.

SECTION D

DEFINITION OF THE ECONOMIC CLASSIFICATIONS

(a) DIVISION I-ENDORSED :-This means that it is the judgment of the Committee
that the project is sound, needful and sufficiently advanced in status; and that its construc-
tion is justified by the public interest it will Serve. All projects heretofore or hereafter placed
in this division will be listed as "Division I-Active," provided, that any project so listed. and
toward the examination, surveying, planning, or construction of which no Federal funds have
been appropriated or expended during a continuous period of five years after the date of such
listing, will be transferred from the "Division I-Active" list to a "Division I-Deferred" list,
and the sponsors of record notified of such action; and, provided further, that a project placed
in "Division I-Deferred" may be reinstated in "Division I-Active" by action of the Projects
Committee following the filing of a new application in the form and manner prescribed for
original applications.
(b) DIVISION II-MERITORIOUS:-This means that the Committee believes that al-
though the proj ect is not sufficiently advanced in status to warrant its present endorsement, it
is meritorious, and that the Committee is willing to consider, in due course, its advancement
to Division I upon presentation by its sponsors of additional evidence justifying such action.
(c) DIVISION Ill-EXPEDITIOUS REPORT ON AUTHORIZED SURVEY RE-
QUESTED:-This means that the Committee believes that the National Rivers and Harbors
Congress should request the engineering authority to expedite any report on any authorized
investigation or survey of the. project to the end that appropriate further action may be had
thereon in regard to its classification.
(d) DIVISION IV-RECOMMENDED FOR SURVEY:-This means that the Committee
believes that sufficient showing on behalf of the project has been made to warrant further
examination in the form of an adequate survey by an appropriate agency of the Federal
Government.
(e) DIVISION V-NOT CLASSIFIED:-This means that the Committee believes that
sufficient showing has not been made on behalf of the project to warrant more favorable action,
and includes all applications not otherwise classified.

(f) NOTE:-Attention is called to the fact that, except as otherwise provided in the rules
of the Projects Committee, a project once classified as ENDORSED will continue to retain that
status without further action by the proponents. Applications for l\dvancing the classification
of projects assigned to a lower classification will be governed by the same rules as those gov-
erning original applications but must comprise substantial new evidence of the justification of
the advancement sought. .

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