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Economics Guide, 1966

Updated 08/03/2005

This web site contains the Economics Guide, 1966 with minor later revisions.

This will be replaced with The National Economics Handbook which is still in the publication process.

Some of the following documents are available in Adobe Acrobat.

The completed and official parts of the NRCS Economics Handbook include:
Adobe Acrobat DocumentPart 611 NRCS National Water Resources Handbook for Economics (855 KB)
Part 612 NRCS National Resource Economics Handbook, Water Quality

The 1995 draft Economic Handbook Part 610.
The entire 1986 draft Economic Handbook.

Table of Contents
Adobe Acrobat documentIntroduction and Detailed Contents (983 KB)
Chapter 1  Adobe Acrobat documentEconomic Analyses - Uses, Framework and Standards (1.38 MB)
Chapter 2 Adobe Acrobat documentApplication of Economic Analysis in Project Formulation (1.73 MB)
Chapter 2App Adobe Acrobat documentAPPENDIX 1975 URB1 User Manual (5.23 MB)
Chapter 3 Adobe Acrobat documentFloodwater Damages and Benefits (6.46 MB)
Chapter 4 Adobe Acrobat documentRestoration of Former Productivity, Changed Land Use,
and More Intensive Use of Benefited Land (2.03 MB)
Chapter 5 Adobe Acrobat documentSediment and Erosion (4.32 MB)
Chapter 6 Adobe Acrobat documentDrainage Measures (1.31 MB)
Chapter 7 Adobe Acrobat documentIrrigation Measures (3.23 MB)
Chapter 8 Adobe Acrobat documentMunicipal and Industrial Water Supply (538 KB)
Chapter 9 Adobe Acrobat documentRecreation, Fish and Wildlife Development (3.71 MB)
Chapter 10 Adobe Acrobat documentCost Allocation and Cost Sharing (1.14 MB)
Chapter 10A Adobe Acrobat document1970 Revisions to chapter 10 (653 KB)
Chapter 10B Adobe Acrobat documentCost Allocation Example 1 (1.68 MB)
Chapter 10C Adobe Acrobat documentCost Allocation Example 2 (283 KB)
Chapter 11 Adobe Acrobat documentSecondary Benefits (3.10 MB)
Chapter 12 Adobe Acrobat documentRedevelopment Benefits (735 KB)
Chapter 13 Adobe Acrobat documentLand, Easements, and Rights-of-Way (744 KB)
Chpater 14 Adobe Acrobat documentShort Cuts in Evaluation Procedures (1.20 MB
Chapter 15 Adobe Acrobat documentEconomic Projections (1.41 MB)