Corps Is Drafting Revised Project ‘Yardstick’
At issue is the 1983 “Economic and Environmental Principles and Guidelines for Water and Related Land Resources Implementation Studies,” which applies to the Corps and three other agencies. It’s “the yardstick against which we measure projects,” says John Paul Woodley Jr., assistant Army secretary for civil works. “P&G” puts prime emphasis on projects’ contribution to “national economic development.” Environmental groups say it shortchanges ecological values.
Use “best-available economic principles and analytical techniques.”