Welcome to NRCS Economics

Updated Normalized Prices, Price Indexes and FY09 Federal Discount Rates

Use 4.375% for use for FY10 Water Resource Projects.   Use 3.9% discount rate for cost calculations based on the OMB Appendix C: Discount Rates for Cost-Effectiveness, Lease-Purchase, and Related Analyses.  Spreadsheet of the most common indexes and discount rates, updated 1/29/2010 (XLS, 79KB)
2009 Normalized Prices for use in FY2010.

New Technical Tools

• National Watershed Program Manual (PDF, 2.81MB)
• National Watershed Program Handbook (PDF, 80KB)
• CPPE and Rapid Watershed Assessment Tool, (XLS, 1.42MB)
• Financial Feasibility and Scheduling Conservation Practice Installation, (PDF, 14KB)
• Hydropower, Value of an additional cfs of water for Hydro Power Generation, (XLS, 18KB)
• Animal Waste Economics, (XLS, 166KB)
• Farm Machinery Cost Estimates, (XLS, 134KB)
• Vehicle Costs Estimator, (XLS, 17KB)
• Prioritization Worksheet, (XLS, 44KB)
• Project Planning Chart and POW, (XLS, 26KB)
• RMS Planning Tool, Identify resource problems and recommend practices, (XLS, 4.75 MB)
• The Economics of Culvert Replacement: Fish Passage in Eastern Maine (PDF, 68KB)

Payment Schedules
Part 613 NRCS National Resource Economics Handbook

Part 613 NRCS National Resource Economics Handbook, Payment Schedules
 (PDF, 286 KB)