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<br />Alternative 3A - Entire Project Area Sprinkler Irrigated (six <br />separate pumping plants and distributing systems) <br /> <br />Alternative 3B - Entire Project Area Sprinkler Irrigated <br />(individual on-farm pumping) <br /> <br />Alternative 4 - 14,200 Acres Irrigated with Automated Border <br />Systems and 1,500 Acres Sprinkler Irrigated <br /> <br />Alternative 5 - 50 Percent of Cropland Irrigated by Automated <br />Border Systems and 50 Percent Irrigated by <br />Sprinkler Systems <br /> <br />Alternative 6 - Land Retirement (acquisition of private land) <br /> <br />Alternative 8 - Irrigation Retirement (livestock operation) - <br />(NED) <br /> <br />Alternative 9 - Irrigation Water Reduction (reduced water <br />delivery) <br /> <br />Alternative 10 - Pump Saline Well Water to Sublettes Flat for <br />Evaporation <br /> <br />Alternative 11 - Landowner Preferred (combination of alternatives) <br /> <br />Alternative 12 - Landowner Preferred-Modified (combination of <br />alternatives, with three pumping plants and <br />pipelines) <br /> <br />Alternative 13 - Environmental Quality (combination of Alternative 4 <br />and a reduced Alternative 10) <br /> <br />NOTE: With the exception of the irrigation retirement <br />Alternatives 5 and 6, all alternatives evaluated and displayed in <br />Table 5 assumes that the existing Agricultural Conservation programs as <br />administered by the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service <br />(ASCS), with technical assistance provided by the Soil Conservation <br />Service (SCS), will continue to be offered and utilized at the same rate <br />as in the past few years. <br /> <br />Alternatives 2 through 13, as displayed in Table 5, used Alternative 1 <br />Future Without a Project (No Action) as an evaluation base. All values <br />shown in the table are incremental to Alternative 1. <br /> <br />t; : -, .'" ,'"\ <br />~..... , V;,) <br /> <br />18 <br />