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<br />o Study element B-7 provided benchmark estimates of other <br />(non-energy) farm input prices which were modified as <br />appropriate in each Ogallala state. <br /> <br />o Study element B-2 projected the national impact of changing farm <br />production in the Ogallala Region. <br /> <br />o Study element B-3 and B-5 reviewed the state-of-the-art <br />technologies of water use and water supply augmentation. <br /> <br />Additional studies in the B-series provide important information for the <br />overall consideration of policy alternatives, although the results are not <br />easily tabulated in quantitative form. Results applicable to one or more <br />water management strategies are included in the analysis and comparison of <br />strategies. The reader with a significant interest in any topic included in <br />one of these studies should refer to the complete report for the study <br />element. The topics addressed include: <br /> <br />o Interbasin water transfer assessments. <br /> <br />o Environmental assessment of different water management <br />strategies (B-4). <br /> <br />o Analysis of the institutional requirements to implement <br />each management strategy (B-6). <br /> <br />o Socioeconomic analysis of the effects of the transition to <br />a dryland farming economy and the likely rate of such a <br />transition (B-9). <br /> <br />o Examination of alternative economic development potential <br />that the Region may realize to compensate for any decline <br />in agricultural production (B-10). <br /> <br />INTERACTING ECONOMIC MODELS <br /> <br />Figure 1 shows the interacting models used to project the quantitative <br />indicators of the impact of each water management strategy. At the heart of <br />this complex is the linear-programming (LP) model of the farm enterprise <br /> <br />A-4 <br />