9392

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9392
• Author: Brookshire, D. S., M. McKee and S. Stewart.
• Title: A Four Corners Regional Focus on the Economic Impact of Critical Habitat Designation for the Razorback Sucker, Humpback Chub, Colorado Squawfish, and Bonytail.
• USFW Year: 1996.
• USFW - Doc Type: Albuquerque.
• Copyright Material: NO

further refined to reflect specific local water development projects to be implemented within
the time period of the analysis.
Table EX-1 summarizes the economic impact to the Four Corners region of critical habitat
designation for the four fishes. Under the WF scenario, the present value of output changes in
t]ie regional economy due to fish considerations is -$63.8 million, which represents seven one-
hundredths of one percent of the present value of the baseline (WOFBA) stream of output.
Job creation is projected to lag the WOFBA scenario by about nine one-hunderdths of one
percent, which represents about 53 jobs foregone annually.
Table EX 1 Regional Present Value and Annualized Incremental Critical Habitat
Impacts (3% Discount Rate)
DEVIATIONS over Baseline
Output Million 1990$ Percent
NPV 3 percent -63.787 -0.079
nnualized values -3.225 -0.113

Employment Persons Percent
verage Annual Incremental
obs Foregone 53 -0.089
Table EX-2 summarizes the economic impact to the Native American subset of the Four
Corners regioq apportioned on the basis of population shares of the regional economy. Of the
study's two approaches to apportioning the regional impacts to the tribal economies-one on
the basis of population and the other on the basis of employment shares-the latter tends to
underestimate the economic consequences because tribal economies generally have a below-
average level of economic activity.
Under the WF scenario, the present value of output changes in the tribal economy due to fish
considerations is -$18.49 million (twenty-nine percent of that of the Four Corners region).
Again, job creation is projected to lag behind the WOFBA scenario by about nine one-
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