WSP06888

• File Number: 8270.100
• Description: Colorado River Basin Water Quality/Salinity -- Misc Water Quality
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 4/1/1982
• Author: USDA
• Title: Colorado River Water Quality Improvement Program - Final Environmental Impact Statement for Lower Gunnison Basin Unit - Montrose and Delta Counties CO and Uintah Basin Unit
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: EIS

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(A) Summary of Alternative Plans Displayed in Principles and Standards Format

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The Principles and Standards accounts illustrating the National Economic
Development, Environmental Quality, Regional Development, and Other Social
Effects for each Alternative Plan are shown in Tables AI-I, AI-2, Al-3 and
Al-4.

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NED Account

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This account consists of the direct beneficial, adverse and net effects from
program implementation. Benefits consist of onfarm and downstream benefits.

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The onfarm benefits were developed for the continuation of ongoing programs
for each of the alternative plan. Production costs were identified with
particular emphasis being placed on variable costs. In cases where it was
determined that yield levels and/or production costs varied by soil classes,
crop budgets were developed accordingly.

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Items of benefit measured on the crop budgets include irrigation labor cost
savings, operation and maintenance cost savings, energy and fuel cost savings,
machinery labor cost savings, fertilizer cost savings, and increased crop
yields. Data were then analyzed on a watershed basis according to the number
of acres by class of soil.

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The downstream benefits consist of the salt reduction in tons attainable for
each alternative multiplied by $52 per ton.

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The adverse effects are the installation costs. These total costs are shown
in the summary of each alternative plan. However, both costs and benefits are
developed on an average annual basis for the NED account. They are computed
in Present Value terms so both are displayed on the same time frame basis.

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RD Account

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The annual benefits and cost developed for the NED Account are also used in
the RD Account; however, benefits and costs are broken out according to the
benefits and costs accruing to the area.

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In addition, other benefits used in the RD Account that accrue because of
project actions are employment benefits and externalities. Employment benefits
accrue because of employment of otherwise unemployed or underemployed labor
resources during project implementation. '

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Externalities include two types of benefits: the' fh:st type "stems from"
implementation and the second type is "induced by" implementation. Benefits
that stem from implementation arise from the increased production of goods.
With this increased supply of goods, new demands are placed upon the trans-
porting, processing and marketing industries of the local area. Benefits
induced by implementation arise from increased expenditures by local people in
the area. These benefits result from the supplying of additional materials
and services required to make possible the increased net returns which stem
from installation of the irrigation improvements.

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