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<br />MAY 1982 <br /> <br />Budgets were developed for three crop yeild classes and the five major <br /> <br />crops which include over 95 percent of all crops inventoried. <br /> <br />Types of benefits measured on the crop budgets were irrigation labor <br /> <br />cost savings, operation and maintenance cost savings, energy and fuel cost <br /> <br />savings, machinery labor cost savings, fertilizer cost savings, and crop <br /> <br />yield changes. Data were then analyzed according to the number of acres of <br /> <br />each class of soil. <br /> <br />Downstream Benefits <br /> <br />The downstream benefit figure indexed to September 1981 l/, using the <br /> <br />Gross National Product Implicit Price Deflator factors, is $490,000 in <br /> <br />average annual benefits for each miligram per liter (mg/1) decrease in <br /> <br />salinity concentration of the Colorado River at Imperial Dam. The $490,000 <br /> <br />converts to $51.00 of average annual benefits per ton of salt reduction that <br /> <br />was used in the economic analysis to obtain downstream benefits by <br /> <br />watershed. <br /> <br />Other Benefits <br /> <br />Other benefits regional in nature accruing because of the works of <br /> <br />improvement are employment benefits and externalities. Employment benefits <br /> <br />accrue through employment of otherwise unemployed or underemployed labor <br /> <br />resources during installation. <br /> <br />l/ The Gross National Product Implicit Price Deflator factors were used to <br />update economic impacts from the study by Kleinman and Brown of the Bureau <br />of Reclamation, published in 1980. ($343,000 per mg/1, 1976 dollars). <br /> <br />II-9 <br /> <br />C(\1835 <br />