Basic aspects of the draft instructions for distribution of expenditures among participants in water management projects

Abstract

The optimal utilization of the water resources of a country is made possible mainly by constructing multipurpose water management projects intended to satisfy the needs of several branches of the national economy. In the resolutions of the 24th Congress of the CPSU, it was stated that it is necessary, "in hydropower, to construct mainly hydraulic projects which permit solving in an integrated manner the problems of the production of electric energy, irrigation of lands, supply of water to the nationaleconomy, and development of navigation and fishing."At the present time, the order of financing muRipurpose hydraulic developments is not governed by any regulations, and it is established in different ways for different projects. In many cases, a11 the construction burden is laid on a single ministry and the remaining participants are freed from financing the construction of the multipurpose hydraulic project; this lowers the interest of the financing ministry in an integrated solution of the problems. In the same way, the self-financing relations involved in the operation of muRipurpose water management projects are not regulated. These deficiencies in the financing of the construction of multipurpose water management projects have been the basis for the decision to prepare instructions for the distribution of the expenditures involved in multipurpose hydraulic projects. However, the competent organizations have not yet put these instructions into effect, although their basic aspects were explained in many documents issued by different organizations, and in particular in 1970-1971, in a collective work prepared by the SOPS (Council for the study of productive resources) at the National Planning Board of the USSR, the Gidroproekt and VNIIG Institutes of the Ministry of Power and Electrification of the USSR, the TsNII~VT Institute of the Ministry of River Transport of the Russian Soviet Federal SR, the Gidrotybproekt of the Ministry of Fishing of the USSR, and the VNIIGiM Institute of the Ministry of Water Management of the USSR. A draft of the corresponding instructions was prepared at the SOPS; recommendations for the distribution of expenditures are included in a work on another subject, which presents methodological instruction for the determination of the expenditures involved in reservoirs being designed.The Gidroproekt Institute and the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute have prepared also draft instructions based on a resolution of the All-Union Interbranch Conference (1969) on the "Technical-economic aspects of the design of multipurpose water management projects and systems." In the preparation of these instructions, consideration was given to the methodological material supplied by the Scientific Council for Multipurpese Utilization and Conservation of Water Resources of the Government Committee for Science and Technology of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, the Council for Investigation of the National Planning Board of the USSR, the TsNIII~VT Ministry of the River Fleet of the USSR, the VNIIGiM of the G...