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Alternative 2 - Improved Water Management and Minimum Structural Improvements Alternative 3 - Entire Project Area Sprinkler Irrigated (pumping plant and pipeline distribution system) Alternative 3A - Entire Project Area Sprinkler Irrigated (six separate pumping plants and distribution systems) Alternative 3B - Entire Project Area Sprinkler Irrigated (individual on-farm pumping) Alternative 4 - 14,200 Acres Irrigated with Automated Border Systems and 1,500 Acres Sprinkler Irrigated Alternative 5 - 50 Percent of Cropland Irrigated by Automated Border Systems and 50 Percent Irrigated by Sprinkler Systems Alternative 6 - Land Retirement (acquisition of private land) Alternative 8 - Irrigation Retirement (livestock operation) - (NED) Alternative 9 - Irrigation Water Reduction (reduced water delivery) Alternative 10 - Pump Saline Well Water to Sublettes Flat for Evaporation Alternative 11 - Landowner Preferred (combination of alternatives) Alternative 12 - Landowner Preferred-Modified (combination of alternatives, with three pumping plants and pipelines) Alternative 13 - Environmental Quality (combination of Alternative 4 and a reduced Alternative 10) Table S-l - Summary of Alternatives (costs, benefits, and impacts of the alternatives analyzed) NOTE: With the exception of the irrigation retirement Alternatives 5 and 6, all alternatives evaluated and displayed in Table S-l assumes that the existing Agricultural Conservation programs as administered by the-Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS), with technical assistance provided by the Soil Conservation Service (SCS), will continue to be offered and utilized at the same rate as in the past few years. Alternatives 2 through 13, as displayed in Table S-l, used Alternative 1 Future Without a Project (No Action) as an evaluation base. All values shown in the table are incremental to Alternative 1. -,. ,(. ,1 !'. v Ji.. ,-!'-.l-1 S-3 II J