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Alaska OCS socioeconomic studies program. Technical report number 31. Bering-Norton petroleum development scenarios local socioeconomic systems analysis. Final report

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:6540268
The document provides a baseline profile of the communities of Nome and Kotzebue encompassing local socioeconomic conditions; and an impacts analysis of Nome, Alaska with and without the proposed oil lease sale scheduled for Norton Sound. Topics include an historical perspective, a comprehensive discussion of the local economic conditions and current demographic information; local government revenues and expenditures and community support service sectors including health and social services, leisure, education, public safety, utilities, land use and housing. Socioeconomic impacts are defined with three different growth scenarios stemming from oil development and are compared to a non-OCS base case which defines impacts of growth without the presence of oil development. A final section includes a comprehensive discussion of the assumptions, methods and standards, used in the assessment of impacts due to growth in population employment and service sectors in Nome, Alaska.
Research Organization:
Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co., Anchorage, AK (USA)
OSTI ID:
6540268
Report Number(s):
PB-80-212624
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English