WSP07433

• File Number: 8220.100.40
• Description: CRSP
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 6/30/1983
• Author: USDOI
• Title: 27th Annual Report on the Statuts of the Colorado River Storage Project
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

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To preserve and enhance the quality of life
through planning, construction, operation and
management of the Colorado River Storage
Projec! and participating projects, social
assessment has become an integral part of
the Bureau of Reclamation program. Consider-
ation of social effects begins early in the
planning stages of a project

In addition to the social effects of economic
and employment opportunities provided
through irrigation, power generation and
Industrial water, the development of land and
water for municipal, recreation, and fish and
wildlife purposes also affects people in the
project area. Preservation and enhancement of
the affected population's social well.being are
both emphasized in the socia! assessment
process.

Major social, economic, and demographic
studies continued on the Central Utah Project's
Uintah Unit and the Bonneville Unit, Diamond
Fork Power System; and the McElmo Creek,
Glenwood-Dotsero Springs, Uinta Basin, and
Price-San Rafael Rivers salinity control units of
the Colorado River Water Ouality Improvement
Program (CRWOIP),

A unique monitoring study was initiated on the
Dolores Project construction program. This

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stUdy will test current procedures for impact
projection and effect analysis while providing
the Cortez Projects Office an enhanced data
base for continued public involvement. Major
studies of the Dirty Devil River, CRWOIP, were
initiated, Studies of the Big Sandy River and
Lower Gunnison Basin units of the CRWOIP
were completed.

Many of these studies utilize the Bureau of
Reclamation Economic Assessment Model
(BREAM) and the Multi-Attribute Tradeoff
System (MATS) to place economic and demo-
graphic present and future conditions, with and
without the proposed projects, into perspec-
tive. Subjective non.statistical effects are
analyzed using mutually enhancing social
assessment and public involvement techniques
in all project investigations,

Sheep grazing along Dallas Creek.

Although these studies are conducted by
regional and project office personnel, close
coordination is maintained with the project
area's affected population. Cooperation with
State and local planners, demographers, and
researchers, has provided a useful technique
for avoiding duplication and enhancing the
quality of both Reclamation and non'Reclama-
tion studies.