WSP07117

• File Number: 8276.130
• Description: Grand Valley Unit-Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Project
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 11/1/1990
• Title: Final Environmental Assessment: Price and Stubb Ditch Improvements - Grand Valley Unit
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: EIS

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Chapter II I

AFFECTED ENVIRONMENT AND
ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES

Table 6
Price Ditch improvements
construction phase income and employment impacts

Total construction costs (1)

Units
$1,000

Construction
1
1992
$2,500

Total
$5,100

year
2
1993
$2,600

On-site Government salaries (2a)
Contractor on-site labor salaries (2b)
Total on-site salaries (2b)

1,000
1,000
1,000

116
493
609

121
512
633

237
1,005
1,242

Adjusted construction cost (2c)

1,000

2,376

2,471

4,847

On-site Government employees (2d)
Contractor on-site labor (2e)
Total

work-years
work-years
work-years

3
13
16

4
13
17

7
26
33

Contract on-site (2f)
Total local direct emolovment (20)

jobs
iobs

30
33

31
35

61
68

(1) Based on 1/90 costs; these are the allocated construction costs of
the project in thousands of dollars.

(2) Construction impact for each Sl,OOO,OOO of appropriations; concrete
canal lining, 1/88, Engineering and Research Center, Denver, Colo. For
each $1,000,000:
a. 15.5 percent is spent on Government salaries of which 30 percent
(4.7 percent of total) is for local Federal Government salaries.
b. 19.7 percent is spent for contractor on-site labor; therefore 24.4
percent is directly spent on local salaries. All figures rounded to be
presented to the nearest thousand dollars.
c. Based on construction cost trends composite index for the cost
level shown in footnote 2 (153) divided by the cost level of the E&R Center
report shown in footnote 1 (161), the index to adjust construction costs
for employment impact calculations is 0.9503.
d. 4.9 work-years of Government employment per million dollars is
purchased of which 30 percent (1.5 work-years) is local Federal Government
employees.
e. 5.3 work-years contractor on-site labor; therefore 6.8 work-years
of local labor is purchased per million dollars.
f. Contractor on-site jobs = contractor on-site labor work-years
times adjustment for 5-month construction season (2.40).
9. Adding "on-site Government employee work-years" to "contractor
on-site jobs" yields the total direct employment in terms of jobs.

All figures rounded to the nearest whole job or work-year. Adding the
full-time Government positions to the seasonal contractor labor positions
available during the 5-month construction season, yields the total direct
employment in terms of jobs.

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