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Economics Guide, 1966

Updated 08/25/2009

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:
Part 611 NRCS National Water Resources Handbook for Economics (PDF, 855 KB)
Part 612 NRCS National Resource Economics Handbook, Water Quality (PDF, 4.48 MB)
Also in HTML at Part 612 NRCS National Resource Economics Handbook, Water Quality

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

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

Table of Contents
Introduction and Detailed Contents (983 KB)
Chapter 1  Economic Analyses - Uses, Framework and Standards (1.38 MB)
Chapter 2 Application of Economic Analysis in Project Formulation (1.73 MB)
Chapter 2App APPENDIX 1975 URB1 User Manual (5.23 MB)
Chapter 3 Floodwater Damages and Benefits (6.46 MB)
Chapter 4 Restoration of Former Productivity, Changed Land Use,
and More Intensive Use of Benefited Land (2.03 MB)
Chapter 5 Sediment and Erosion (4.32 MB)
Chapter 6 Drainage Measures (1.31 MB)
Chapter 7 Irrigation Measures (3.23 MB)
Chapter 8 Municipal and Industrial Water Supply (538 KB)
Chapter 9 Recreation, Fish and Wildlife Development (3.71 MB)
Chapter 10 Cost Allocation and Cost Sharing (1.14 MB)
Chapter 10A 1970 Revisions to chapter 10 (653 KB)
Chapter 10B Cost Allocation Example 1 (1.68 MB)
Chapter 10C Cost Allocation Example 2 (283 KB)
Chapter 11 Secondary Benefits (3.10 MB)
Chapter 12 Redevelopment Benefits (735 KB)
Chapter 13 Land, Easements, and Rights-of-Way (744 KB)
Chpater 14 Short Cuts in Evaluation Procedures (1.20 MB
Chapter 15 Economic Projections (1.41 MB)