8169a

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 8169a
• Author: Brookshire, D. S., M. McKee and G. Watts.
• Title: Draft Economic Analysis of Proposed Critical Habitat Designation in the Colorado River Basin for the Razorback Sucker, Humpback Chub, Colorado Squawfish, and Bonytail.
• USFW Year: 1993.
• USFW - Doc Type: \
• Copyright Material: NO

gravel operations and the construction industry. The impacts of public recreation facilities
were documented through the recreation survey (B.2).
D. Direct Economic Impacts
The direct economic impacts due to listing and critical habitat designation occur over several
economic sectors and are unique to particular stretches of the rivers. Since complete
description of these impacts is beyond the scope of Volume I, they are described in detail in
Chapters II-9 and II-10 of Volume II. The direct economic .impacts for each of the- seven
States and for the Colorado Basin as a whole were estimated in Volume II. The direct
economic impacts were found to stem from both flow alterations and nonflow activity
changes.
Table I-5-1 presents the direct economic impacts for each State over the time for proposed
critical habitat designation. For Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and
Wyoming, the impacts are predominantly negative. For California, the impacts are all
positive. For the Colorado River Basin as a whole, the overall impacts are positive. For the
livestock feed, recreation and electric power sectors, the impacts are negative. The other
crops, non-petroleum mining, oil and gas production, construction, and combined
manufacturing the impacts are positive. The net effects of these offsetting direct impacts is
that the total direct impacts for the Colorado River Basin are positive.
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