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Show II peplofesi to Injoet ' j!fl98 Without MX, the population popula-tion in Nevada Utah is expected to increase by 250,-000 250,-000 people by 1990. At Its peak, MX could add as many as 100,000 more. It should be noted that some estimates are considerably lower due to expected mitigations miti-gations such as automated construction techniques and incentives to dissuade workers work-ers from bringing their familes. In perspective, the regional growth pattern without MX is predicted to be slightly over three percent. per-cent. MX could add as much as one percent, thereby bringing the growth pattern up to a total of a little over four percent. Of the total MX in-migrants 30,000 will be members of Air Force families who will reside in NevadaUtah throughout steady state operations. The distribution of in -Migrating population at the county level produces more pronounced changes. Without With-out MX the average growth rate annually in deployment area counties is less than 5 percent. With MX, the average annual growth rate will exceed 20 percent in six of the twelve deployment counties during the construction con-struction period. By comparison, com-parison, annual project induced in-duced growth associated with the construction of the trans -Alaska pipeline equaled about 22 percent in Fairbanks Fair-banks and 53 percent inVal-dez inVal-dez over the period 1970-76. 1970-76. With foresight and planning, plan-ning, some of the predicted problems of housing shortages short-ages and public services can be averted. Federal agencies agen-cies will provide timely and comprehensive planning and substantial resources in that regard. The MX induced population popula-tion growth will be due to increased employment in the region. It is estimated that the MX program will employ about 22,500 construction workers at peak construction in 1987. This is roughly comparable to the peak sum -mer work force of nearly 23,000 required to construct con-struct the trans -Alaska oil pipeline or about half of the 43,000 workers required to construct the Panama Canal. Ca-nal. Total direct peak em -ployment, including construction con-struction and operations personnel will number 33,-000 33,-000 in 1987. The number of operations workers will build to a total of 13,000 by 1989 and remain steady thereafter. ' The MX program will also al-so create indirect employment employ-ment due to the purchase of retail goods and services serv-ices by workers, and to a lesser extent, the local purchases pur-chases by the Air Force to meet the needs of the operating oper-ating bases. Indirect employment em-ployment is forecast to peak in 1987 at about 33,000 and decline to about 5,000 by 1991. Many of the direct and indirect jobs generated by the MX program will be taken by residents in the deployment region.. It is estimated that local residents resi-dents will capture more than a 25 percent share of the civilian jobs during peak construction and approximately approxi-mately 40 percent during the operational phase. |