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Permitting performance measures are generally used on a smaller spatial scale than planning measures. <br />They help determine the impacts that individual actions have on other water-dependent activities and on <br />the environment. In addition, permitting performance measures ensure that individual actions are in <br />conformance with larger scale plans. <br />Regulation performance measures help assess the economic or behavioral impacts of regulatory <br />strategies. These performance measures do not look at operations or physical constraints, but instead <br />evaluate if the impact of a proposed regulatory strategy will require a new planning effort. For example, <br />a substantial increase in the price of CVP water may radically change the demand for agricultural <br />deliveries, rendering existing plans obsolete. A regulatory performance measure might compare water <br />use forecasts with and without the price increase. <br />Step 3: Other Working Documents <br />Three other working documents are also currently under review by the PAC and the TAC. The NHI <br />developed Institutional Decisions Mandated by Law. NHI used legislation, regulations, published <br />guidelines, contracts, judicial decisions and other relevant information to generate the legal and policy <br />factors that create a need for analytical tools for institutions. <br />The third working document is Consensus Project: Management Alternatives. The major output of the <br />Consensus Project will be functional specifications for new analytical tools. The goal is to ensure that <br />the tools are capable of evaluating the benefits and impacts of numerous management alternatives when <br />used by people who fully understand the nature of water management in California, but may not <br />necessarily be well versed in computer programming. Consequently, management alternatives must be <br />described to the tools as input data (as in data-driven models) rather than incorporated directly in the <br />tools themselves (as in hardwired code). Management alternatives consist of combinations of new and <br />existing physical facilities, the operating policies for facilities (individually and the system as a whole), <br />and finally, measures used to control demand. The way in which all of these combinations can be <br />described to analytical tools is the major concern of this document. <br />Finally, NHI will produce a working document describing a variety of institutional arrangements for (1) <br />developing and managing water resources and environmental data, and (2) housing, managing, updating, <br />and assessing analytical tools. These options will include the further development of existing processes, <br />such as the Bay-Delta Modeling Forum. <br />All of the working documents are submitted to the TAC and then the PAC for review and development <br />of consensus. <br />Step 4: Creating an Interview Format <br />Preliminary findings of the legal requirements and performance measures tasks will be compared to <br />establish where existing tools could be improved and augmented. This knowledge will be used to create <br />an interview format, which is designed to solicit various information, including the following: <br />Management needs beyond current law for which analytical tools are needed <br />? <br />Specific biological, hydrological and regulatory data needed by decision-makers to fulfill their <br />? <br />mandate <br />Performance measures that may act as surrogates for the performance of the water system from <br />? <br />environmental, water user, and other perspectives <br />5 <br />A275 01.09.95 1-19.2 Sheer <br />