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Show PART V ALTERNATIVE PLANS Alternative Watershed Protection Plans The following discussion describes alternatives to the Framework Plan which reflect emphasis on different uses for available water supply, land, and other resources. The States' alternative plans considered are identified as: 1. States' alternative to the Framework Plan (6.5 million acre-feet) level of development. 2. States' alternative at the 8.16 million acre-feet level of develop- ment, and 3. States' alternative for water supply physically available at site in the region. Other planning alternatives considered are: 1. Going Program as of the 1964-1969 period. 2. OBERS as published-^. 3. Alternative without additional watershed land treatment or flood protection. Effect of Alternative Watershed Protective Plans Alternative programs are compared in Table 13 by cost. Costs of the erosion, flood and sediment control and water yield improvement program are shown by installation and operation, maintenance, and replacement for each time frame. The effect of each alternative pro- gram is shown by total cost from 1966 to 2020 with a percent relationship based on the Framework Plan as 100 percent. _L/ Preliminary Report on Economic Projections for Selected Geographic Areas, 1929 to 2020, Volume I, United States Water Resources Council, Washington, D. C, March 1968; and Preliminary Projections of Economic Activity in the Agricultural, Forestry and Related Economic Sectors of the United States and its Water Resources Regions 1980, 2000, and 2020, Economic Research Service and Forest Service, USDA, Washington, D. C, August 1967. 77 |