Economic analysis and the environmental overview : suggestions for project recommendations by local governments. Paper presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board HRB, Washington, D.C., January 1974.

The economic impact of the environmental impact statement is discussed. The key to the use of the environmental impact statement is an understanding of the relation between effects considered by economic analysis and other project impacts. Much of the paper develops the rationale for categorizing effects of highway improvements by explaining which are included in benefit-cost analysis and which must be evaluated separately.