BOARD01880

• Board Meeting Date: 4/1/1982
• Description: CWCB Meeting
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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Economic and Environmental Guidelines for Water and
Related Land Resources Implementation Studies

Chapter I -- Standards

Section I - Introduction

1.1 Purpose and Scope

(a) These Guidelines establish standards and procedures for use
by Federal agencies in formulating and evaluating alternative
plans for water and related land resources implementation
studies. These Guideli~es implement the Principles for
Water and Related Land ~esource Implementation Studies.

(b) These Guidelines are foe Federal administrative purposes
and shall not create an1 substantive or procedural rights
in private parties.

(c) Departures in an individual study from these Guidelines are
to be documented and justified in the study report.

(d) Implementation studies are pre- or postauthorization project
formulation or evaluation studies undertaken by a Federal
agency. Studies for the fOllowing agency activities are
covered:

(1) Corps of Engineers (Civil Works) water resources
project plans.
(2) Bureau of Reclamation water resources project plans.
(3) Tennessee Valley Authority water resources project
plans.
(4) Soil Conservation service water resources project
plans.

(e) These Guidelines establish the basic process for Federal
agencies in carrying out implementation studies.

(f) The accounts described in these Guidelines encompass and
are consistent with the concept of human environment as
used in the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
(NEPA) (42 U.S.C. 4321, et seq.) and the appropriate
portions of the NEPA regulations established by the
Council on Environmental Quality (CEO) in 40 CFR Parts
1500-1508.