BOARD01880

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

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10. Planners shall identify areas of risk and uncertainty in their analysis
and describe ~hem clearly, so that decisi~ns can be made with
knowledge of the degree of reliability of ~he estimated benefits and
costs and or the effectiveness of a1ternati~'e plans.

11. For purposes of allocating total project financial costs among the
project purposes served by a plan, separable costs will be assigned
to their respective project purposes, and all joint project costs
will be allocated to project purposes for which participants in plan
implementation have cost Sharing author i ty, uiUess the plan inCludes
proposals for changes in cost sharing. (Cost sharing policie~ for
water projects will be addressed separately.)

12. In order to ensure consistency of Federal agency planning necessary
for purposes of budget and policy decisions and to aid States and the
public in evaluation of project alternatives, the Water Resources
Council (WRC), in cooperation with the Cabinet Council on Natural
Resources and Environment, shall issue standards and procedures, in the
form of quidelines, implementing these principles. The head of each
Federal agency su~ject to this order will be responsible for consistent
applica~ion of the guidelines. An aqency may propose aqency guidelines
which differ from the guidelines issued by WRC. Such agency guidelines
and sugqestions for improvements in the wac guidelines are to be sub-
mitted to wac for review and approval. The WRC will forward all agency
proposed guidelines which represent chanqes in established policy to
the Cabinet council on Natural Resources and Environment for its
consideration.

13. These principles shall apply to implementation studies completed more
than 120 days after issuance of the standards and procedures referenced
in Section 12.