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. . 111-104 Chapter "' - Affected Environment/Environmental Consequences PDEIS - Navajo Reservoir Operations 455 Colorado Side of Navajo Reservoir, Recreation Impacts.-Impacts to Navajo 456 Reservoir from operational changes at the danl have been determined to be negligible 457 because changes in reservoir levels are not expected to reduce recreation use; therefore, 458 there would be no reservoir operations-related impacts to total output and employment 459 for Archuleta CoWlty. 460 461 462 San Juan River Fishing/Navajo State Park. - Most fishing on the San Juan 463 River takes place berween Navajo Dam and the Hammond Diversion, predominantly in 464 the 3.5 miles designated by New Mexico Department of Ganle and Fish (NMDGF) as 465 "quality waters," where large nwnbers of anglers come to fish from all over thc world. 466 Only the regional inlpacts of fishing in the quality waters and part of the regular waters 467 downstream were analyzed for this docwnent. 468 469 The following range of impacts has been estimated using existing smdies and data 470 gathered through conversations and meetings with local government officials and private 471 business owners. 472 473 474 Out-of-State Ang/ers.-Two separate estimates of angler expenditures were 475 provided. Conversations with the Farmington Visitors Burcau provided estinlated 476 angler expenditures made locally of $400 per trip per person based on a smdy done in 477 1994 (which is Wlavailable). Expenditure estimated at $462 oer trip were provided by 478 fly fishing outfitters and guides and are displayed in table ill- _' 479 480 Out-of-State river visitation is estimated to be 114,400; applying this nwnber to the 481 Visitors Bureau -estimated $400 expenditure per out-of-State fisherman- yields an 482 annual direct expenditure in the local economy of $45,760,000. Using the guides' and 483 outfitters' $462 estinlate per trip rcsults in local annual expenditures of $52,853,000. 3 " Esrimares of our-of-Srare anglers specific ro this srrerch of the river were extrapolared from a survey conducted by NMDGF(Ahlm, 1994) which identified thar ar leasr 47 percent of anglers responding were from our of Stare, This percentage is applied ro the river visirarion esrimares (243,432) provided by New Mexico Deparrment of Parks and Recrearion (NMDPR). Esrimares are somewhar general when considered in lighr of the lack of acmal expendinrre dara and the facr that the visiration estimare provided by NMDPR is based on car counters that do nor discriminare mulriple entrances and exits by the same vehicle, Estimates of vehicle occupants Jre based on a srandard 2,84 persons per vehicle used by the National Park Service. January 25, 2002 - Not for Public Review - Draft