SCS Economics Guide

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

This was finally replaced with The National Economics Handbook, revised in July, 2012.

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 The SCS Economics Guide, 1966

 

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)