WSPC03668

• File Number: 7630.650
• Description: Wild and Scenic - Yampa River
• State: CO
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 3/31/1976
• Author: Unknown
• Title: Multiple Objective Planning for Wild and Scenic River Studies - Overview - Revised
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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Revised 3/3l/76

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Multiple Objective Plannin~ for Wild and Scenic River Studies

Overview

In 1971 the Water Resources Council developed and tested an analytical

procedure for evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of plans which

affect the water resources of the United States. This procedure was first

known as multiple objective planning (MOP) since alternative plans for

four, often conflicting, objectives for water resources were developed.

The MOP procedure was further modified and then adopted by Executive

Order as the Principles and Standards forPlannin~ Water and Related Land

Resources and published in the Federal Register, Volume 38, No. 174, on

September lO, 1973. This procedure is intended primarily for water

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resource development analysis. Since wild and scenic rivers are considered

by the Water Resources Council to be water resource developments, it is

mandatory that studies of wild and scenic rivers comply with "Principles

and Standards."

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The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act is primarily intended to preserve the

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environmental qualities of those rivers which possess great natural beauty

and other qualities which make them deserving of such attention. In a

sense, MOP modifies this intent to serve economic needs as well. A wild

and scenic river study can now develop alternative plans for economic

development as well as environmental preservation. The economic development

plans developed for a wild and scenic river study are normally not intended

to be actual proposals for action; rather, they are developed so that the

advantages and disadvantages of a fuller range of alternative plans can be

examined and discussed.