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<br />-9- <br /> <br />Z. Problem: Planning documents currently provide little or no informa- <br /> <br />Options: a. <br /> <br />tion on who benefits from and who pays for water projects, <br /> <br />and the President's recent water project review revealed <br /> <br />a possible need for economic and social equity criteria <br /> <br />in project evaluation. <br /> <br />Require all water resource plans to include a uniform <br /> <br />presentation of the distribution of project benefits <br /> <br />and costs based on Principles and Standards requirements. <br /> <br />b, Establish standards or criteria for the distribution <br /> <br />of benefits and costs among project recipients as a <br /> <br />requirement for Federal assistance. <br /> <br />c. Explicitly include social equity as a co-equal <br /> <br />objective in water and related land resourc! projects <br /> <br />, <br />so as to highligh information on and set standards <br /> <br />for the design of projects which provide benefits to <br /> <br />low ~ncome groups. <br /> <br />3. Problem: Because quantitative analysis of environmental impacts is <br /> <br />relatively new and standard methods have not been developed, <br /> <br />it is difficult to evaluate environmental factors appropriately, <br /> <br />weight them consistently, compare them with economic and <br /> <br />other impacts uniformly, and make inte~project comparisons. <br /> <br />2561 <br />