r - part - usaid

kL% costs of bported ecpipnext a ater rials include
freight eksrges to Saza"LEa. For the project, the bulk of this
has been purchased under FTDC 5y VSAXD, a total 0 some
$9,088,000 t3roughtxZ the ii5e of the p e t . Because the
United Stazas govemaans carries its awn Lns~rance , nu insurance
c3arge has been FnsZuded. The ficpres quoted, therefore, are
not nc.i.f.m, but "CXFU, cost iccfuding freight.
4. JIX13. Travel Time
Xn estiaa:lzq the tie take= far each stage of well
construction, same CZze 3as 5eez alioved for travel to and from
the site. As a qenerizl rule, one day has been allawed each way
far work is the Bay Ragion, azd two days each way for work in
the Central Range3ands. In a31 czses, a day is assumed to be a
working day; a nonth consists 05 25 working days; a week, six
working days; 8nd for the sake of zcnveaience, a year is assumed
ta cansist GE 309 uarkizg days.
Casts
The node1 has beec designed zo assist WCA iz estimating the
'** 4%-
cost ~f well d r z ~ ~ psaqrazs, , ~ ~ ~ rather tkon for determining the
cost of an indivlduaL weLi. Za52e 21 OE the model is
specificaLLy desigmC =a dea; uic3 the three-year project
Subgeclng procsduxe rewired of XDA, [Appendix 4.4.1). Though
:he zedel can be csed for costing individual wells, the figures
derl~*ed will not be cs accurate because of the way in which the
%ode1 &eaLs vith casrizg the use of vehicles and equipment.
Al; ve2icle ane eq-2Lpmezt casts, incf~ding fuel, are
calcalazed oz :he ~ E S ~ cf S a dai3y use charge averaged over the
expected Life and total usage of tae *~ehicfe. In ctlculating
the cost cf a program sgecificafly for the Central Rangelands,
for exanple, tke . . variaS9es cozcerned with average life
expectancy azd k-~oxeters per year are different from those used
in the Bzy Reqiox ;Xp~en5Fces 4.4.: and 4.4.2, Table 9).
Because of z5.e rozg5 rerrain of t5e Cen~raf Range, vehicles used
%here are expeczed to kzve z shcrter life, and to coxtplete less
" T - 7 ..h;
kr~ometers during zkaz Life. ST*terit-~, ,-.-s nethod LE felt to be
aare acc:rate, az5, more i-pcrZazzLy, iz allows W3A to recover
t3e realis3lc tar21 scerz~fzg cost of any program.