BOARD01880

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

'.~conpmic and Environmental Principles and Guidelines for Water and Relatec
Land Resources Implementation Studies

Principles

1. These principles are intended to ensure proper and consistent planning
by Federal agencies in the formulation and evaluation of water and
related land resources implementation studies.

Implementation studies of the fOllowing agency activities are covered

by these principles:

(a) Corps of Engineers (Civil Works) water resources project plans;
(b) Bureau of Reclamation water resources project plans;
(c) Tennessee Valley Authority water resources project plans;
(d) Soil Conservation Service water resources project plans.

Implementation studies are pre- or postauthorization.project formula-
tion or evaluation studies undertaken by Federal agencies. .

2. The Federal objective of water and related land resources project
planning is to contribute to national economic development consistent
with protecting the Nation~s.environment, pursuant to national
environmental statutes, applicable executive orders, and other Federal
planning requirements.

(a) Water and related land resources project plans shall be
formulated to alleviate problems and take advantage of
opportunities in ways that contribute to these objectives.
(b) Contributions to national economic development are increases in
the net value of the national output of goods and services,
expressed in monetary units. Contributions to NED are the direct
benefits and costs that accrue in the planning area and the rest
of the nation. Contributions to NED include increases in the net
value of those goods and services that are marketed, and also of
those that may not be marketed.