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<br />OO"JPV <br /> <br />ECONOMIC RESEARCH SERVICE <br /> <br />GENERAL: <br /> <br />ARIZONA: <br /> <br />CALI FORNIA: <br /> <br />COLORADO: <br /> <br />NEW MEXICO: <br /> <br />The name of the Agency has been changed back to Economic <br />Research Service (ERS). Responsibilities for management <br />of ERS River Basin Studies in the West (including all <br />states in the Southwest) has been assigned to Harold Stults. <br /> <br />Colorado River Indian Reservation <br /> <br />The socio-economics report is nearly completed. Crop <br />cost and returns budgets are being developed. They will <br />be basis of a computer model to estimate the economic <br />impacts of various conservation practices in the study <br />area. <br /> <br />Arizona Statewide Water Management Study <br /> <br />Activity on the Statewide analysis has been terminated. <br />Instead, a proposal for a more concentrated effort in <br />the Pinal County Management Area is being finalized. <br /> <br />Sacramento Valley Basin Study <br /> <br />ERS is cooperating with the SCS and the Central Valley <br />Regional Water Quality Board in analyzing the economic <br />effects of agricultural erosion and sedimentation in <br />four Central Valley counties. The case study approach <br />is being used. Data collection will be initiated this <br />fall in the Spanish Grant Watershed near Patterson. The <br />analysis will seek to determine the extent to which alter- <br />native erosion and sedimentation control measures will <br />affect cost.s and returns on the case study farms. <br /> <br />Arkansas Cooperative Basin Study <br /> <br />The irrigation canal system analytical model, previously <br />developed, was used to make economic, agronomic and <br />hydrologic analyses on 32 canal systems in the Arkansas <br />Basin. These analyses were run at the Ft. Collins <br />Computer Center. The Statewide Linear Programming model <br />is well in progress with a large portion of the coding <br />complete and keypunching underway. <br /> <br />Lower Rio Grande Study <br /> <br />Projections of county population and nonagricultural <br />earnings and employment, by industry, are complete as <br />is future crop yields for individual soil productivity <br />groupings. Demographic data bearing on income levels, <br />education, unemployment and industry labor surpluses <br />and shortages are complete. <br /> <br />-13- <br />