siting facilities. 

 VALUE CLASSES 



Value Class 



1 Outstanding recreational resources 



2 Substantial value recreational resources 



3 Moderate value recreational resources 



4 Limited value recreational resources 



U 



Unclassified or unknown recreational resources 



If a river segment is not included in one of these classes, the 

 resource value is presumed not present or does not meet the 

 minimum standards to be included in the study. However, 

 hydroelectric development on segments not included could still 

 adversely affect recreational resources. The inventory is 

 concluding only that segments inventoried are more likely to have 

 recreational resources that could pose constraints to 

 development. 



Value classes have verbal descriptions of the type of river 

 segment that would fall into each class to insure consistency of 

 the definition of each class. These will be finalized following 

 pilot testing of the inventory method, but the draft version is 

 provided in the section on Standards. 



CRITERIA 



Nine cr i ter ia--resource attributes or use characteristics that 

 help to give rivers recreational value--will be used to describe 

 the river segments included in the study. Each segment will be 

 placed into one of the categories for each criterion. How a 

 river rates on the criteria will help determine its assignment to 

 a value class, as explained under Standards. Following is a 

 description of each. 



1 . Opportunities for boating 



River segments will be 

 categorized based on water surface type, which also implies the 

 type of boat used on that part of the river. Five categories 

 will be used: 



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