WSP05559

• File Number: 8271.200
• Description: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Program - Development and History - UCRB 13a Assessment
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 6/27/1979
• Author: Glenn Morris
• Title: The Economic Impact of Synfuels Development in the Upper Colorado River Basin - Rough Draft
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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ReRion Comprehensive Framework

Study

in the late

sixties and early

o seventies. I Subsequent efforts have drawn on this earlier work, but the
U1

~ focus has shifted toward consideration of the environmental and economic
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consequences of rapid energy development. Among these studies are Udis, Howe,

and Kreider 0 s study of the UCRB economy/environmental quality inter-

relationship and Morris' examination of the economLC and water Lesource

Whatever the
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economy~still

emphasis of the study, however, the problem of

2
the UCRB.
mOdeling the

implications of energy development and new energy technologies in

essentially the same:

to characterize the interdependencies

of the Basin economy so that an initial economic change could be traced

through the economy and its total economic significance could be evaluated.

These total economic impacts may be used, in turn, to .estimate the associated

change in a large number of resource or environmental measures.

The resource which received special attention in all the reports noted

above is water. The semi-arid or arid nature of most of the UCRB climate is a

1Bernard Udis, ed., An Analysis of the Economy of the Green River
Sub-lias in of the Colorado River Drainage Basin in 1960 with Emphasis on Heavy
Water-Using Industries (lloulder, Colorado: llureau of Economic Research,
1967); Bernard Udis, ed., An Analysis of the Economy of the Upper Main Stem
Sub-Basin of the Colorado River Drainage Basin in 1960 with Emphasis on Heavy
Water-Using Industries (Boulder, Colorado, Bureau of Economic Research,
1967); and llernard Udis, ed., An Analysis of the Economy of the San Juan River
Sub-Basin of the Colorado River Draina e Basin in 1960 with Em hasis on Heav
Water-Using Industries lloulder, Colorado: Bureau of Economic Research,
1967); and Upper Colorado Region State-Federal Interagency Group, ~
Colorado ReRion Comprehensive Framework Study, (Water Resources Council, 1971).

211ernard Udis, Charles W. Howe, and Jan F. Kreider, The
Interrelationship of Economic Development and Environmental Quality in the
Upper Colorado River Basin: An Interindustry Analysis,. prepared for the U.
5., Department of Commerce, Economic Development Administration (Boulder,
Colorado: Bureau of Economic Research, 1973); and Glenn E. Morris, ~
Optimization Model of Energy Related Economic Development in the U~per
Colorado Rlver llann Under Condltlons of Water and Energy Resource Scarclty,
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory report LA-6732-T (March 1977).