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<br />developed, and if a project were developed in the future. So they have <br />to look at it three different times. <br /> <br />(slide) Nondevelopment is not really considered an alternative, but a <br />base line condition. This tells us what the conditions would be in I <br />the future if no water development of any kind were to be pursued. It <br />gives us the basis to measure the various alternatives that we are <br />looking at. <br /> <br />(slide) The nonstructural plan is one that we call our management plan, <br />'and here we have the assumption of no storage facilities on the South <br />Platte and that the South Platte canyon area would be a recreation and <br />scenic river under the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation's classification. <br />Once you do that, as I say you preclude it as a storage site, but you <br />still have the water demand so then you have to look at conservation <br />and augmentation methods of serving the M & I need. <br /> <br />(slide) Under the NED objective we look at - First thing of course, the <br />benefits must exceed the cost. Secondly, we must have someone, some <br />entity with the ability and willingness to repay the reimbursable cost. <br />We must have local and state support for the project, and we must meet <br />the near to intermediate time frame, fifteen, twenty-five years. <br /> <br />(slide) We have the various components: M & I water, flood protection, <br />recreation, power, navigation, irrigation, if they were applicable to <br />this situation. (slide) We have to consider reasonable development <br />factors, along with the social and environmental factors, as we loo~ at <br />any objective. <br /> <br />(slide) Now as we look at the environmental quality objectives, we have <br />a little different aspect with which to deal. The first and most <br />important thing is that it must relate to the water use, water develop- <br />ment. That is, we can"t improve the environment of a vast area through <br />a reclamation or water program, it has to be related directly to the <br />water. From that then we do the best we can to enhance and manage <br />and restore - improve the quality of the environment. <br /> <br />(slide) There are several components. As you see (slide) archaeological, I <br />historical, cultural, the water, air, land, sound, visual. These are <br />the categories that this environmental rating team must consider as <br />they rate all the different aspects of the different alternatives. <br />(slide) And here again, we must, under the environmental quality, just <br />like the NED, consider the original development aspects, the social, <br />and the environmental, but also the NED, the national economic develop- <br />ment factors. Because we have to measure the environmental quality <br /> <br />-4- <br />