How did the Corps accommodate uncertainty in the economic analysis?
A. Due to the uncertainty associated with projecting socioeconomic parameters for 100 years, projections of certain parameters, such as population, income, fuel prices, power loads, and commodities that would be transported on the lower Snake River are limited to a 20-year period from 1998 though 2018. From that point on, constant levels are assumed to the end of the 100-year period of analysis. Recreation and Tourism Q. The Draft Lower Snake River Juvenile Salmon Migration Feasibility Report/EIS (DFR/EIS) released in December 1999 said that the annual recreation benefits were $82 million. Do you expect this figure to change in the final report? A. Yes. Dr. John Loomis, professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colo., provided his revised recreation chapter for the Economic Appendix to the Corps in February 2001.This report included revisions from the DFR/EIS based on comments received from the independent technical review conducted
