WSP04728

• File Number: 8030
• Description: Section D General Correspondence-Other Organizations
• State: CO
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 9/10/1973
• Author: National Archives
• Title: US Water Resources Council - Federal Register - USWRC-Water and Related Land Resources - Establishment of Principles and Standards for Planning
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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(h) The value of output resulting from external econo_
mice accruing within rclevat:t regions.

objective will be included here. Measurement tecb..t:rlque5 will vary
but would largely be 1n terms of physical unitll.

(2) Adverse.

c. Educational, cultural. and recreational. The effect of the
plan on educatioo.al. cultural, and rec1:'eationa.l opportunities.

(a) The value of resources within relevant region:ll re.
qu'ired fer 0.1' displaced by a plan.

d. EmerllenCy preparedness. The effect. of the plan on reserve
capadtiell and nexibilitiea in water resource sy.terns and protection
against inte-rruption of the flow of ell-.ential goods and services at
tUnes of national die aliter 0.1' critical need will be displayed.

(b) Loues in output resulting (rom external diseconomies
within tl;1e relevant regions. .

b. Beneficial and adve:-se effeds on other com'Ponents of reaional
development.

e. ~ Other effects on social well-being may be id.entified
aDd diBplayed .u reldvant to alternative plans.

(1) The number and types oC jobs resulting from a pliiU1 in the!
region under considerationj

IV. GENERAL EVALUATION PRlNCIPLES

A. General Settinl!;

(ZJ Effects of the plan on population distribution within the
region under conllideration and among r-egionll in the Nationj

Full cmployznent will be aasumed except wbere local areas of.
chronic unemployment, underemployment, or other conditionll indi-
cate otherwise. Plan formulation and evaluation will be baaed on
national and regional projections of employment output~' ancl population
and the amounts of goods and services that are likely to be demanded.
Actual or projected needs {or water and land rClsources will be related
to these projection.. Alternative plans will take into account estab-
lished. standards and goals for the quaUty of tbe environmen.t and other
factors.

(3) The effed of the plan on the economic ba.le and economic
stability oC the region under conlideration;

(4) The effect of the pllm on the environment in the region
under conllideration; and

(5) The effect of the plan on other specified componenhl of
regional development.

B. Meallurement of Beneficial and
Adverse Effects

B. Beneficial and Adverse Effects
on Social WeU-BeinJZ

Beneficial aJ:1d adveree effecta of each alternative plan will be
determined by comparing the conditions expected with the plall to the
conditiono expected without the plan. Since substan,tial changes may
be expected ev~:o. in the absence of the plan, care ehould be taken that
this fact i. properly reflected in plan formulation and evaluation.

The beneficial io-Dd adver!!e effect!! of a. plan to be displayed where
appropriate in the social well-being account include:

a. Real income dietribuHon. The effects of a plan on the real
income oi cIasllea or groups that are relevant to !:be eva1uatio.D of a
plan will be displayed. All effect., both mOnetary a.nd income in kind.
will be included in thie dieplay.

c. Price RelationshiplI

"''hen prices are-used in evaluation they .hould reflect the real
exchange value II expected to prevail over tha period of analysis. For
thill purposel relative price relationshiplI and the general level of

b. Life, health, and safety. Pla%1 effech on life. health, and safety
other than thoee evalu-.ted monetolrily for the national economic developn..ent

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fEDERAL REGISTER, VOL. 38, NO. 174-MONDAY, SEPTEMllR 10, 1973

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