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Show y * Appendix A Opportunity Costs We would like to suggest items for inclusion under this type cost which are suggested to us from various sources, i.e. "Economic Analysis of the Bonneville Unit EIS" - Power; "Economic__E^ficiency of the Inter-Basin Agricultural _Water Tr1ms_fers" in_JJtah" - Knight, et al, UtaTTWater Research LaET. , Utah State University; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Instream Flow Group, Ft. Collins, Colorado. However, our suggestions do not exhaust all possible items needing to be included and we request you detail legitimate opportunity costs which are sufficiently comprehensive. Opportunity costs associated with lost water transferred out of Green-Colorado River to Bonneville Basin need consideration. l."The cost of inefficient allocation decisions on the part of public resource managers is of a magnitude sufficient to warrant careful and explicit consideration before decisions are reached as to the timing of the development of the Bonneville Unit. If goals other than efficiency are cited as reasons for ineffic-ient allocation decisions, then the achievement of these goals must share in the cost of inefficiency." - from "Economic Efficiency of Inter-Basin Agricultural Water Transfers in Utah" , Keith, Anderson, Clyde, Utah Water Research Lab, College of Engineering, Utah State university. (Since CUP developed water is not needed for Salt Lake County at least until the year 2,000, if at all, and since 208 Water Quality Studies for Utah^County are not completed but are anticipated to arrive at water sufficiency, investing of public funds in transfer facilities of the Bonneville Unit prior to an assumed appropriate time, need to be calculated as costs. Economic costs of institutionally constraining groundwater pumping to a level of non-depletion, as well as water salvage need to be calculated as costs.) 2. Costs of opportunities lost to Salt Lake City and other citizens for recreation associated with Uinta^ Range trout streams - fly fishing in streams, kayaking, bird and wildlife watching, hiking - need to be calculated in terms of loss of 6 miles Class I, and 50.1 Class I and II streams in the Bonneville Unit alone as well as a total of 319 miles ultimate and accumulated loss of Class I - IV streams from Bonneville, Upalco and Uintah Units of the CUP. 3. Likewise, opportunities lost to hunters, fishermen, birdwatchers and recreationists utilizing Utah Lake and its Provo and Goshen Bay wetlands, need to be |
