Summary description of the BOOM1 model. [Impact of energy industry on small, isolated communities]

Technical Report · Tue Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1976

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/7240663· OSTI ID:7240663

Ford, A

This report describes the principal features of a computer model, BOOM1, designed to simulate the ''boom town'' impacts that may result from locating large energy facilities near small, isolated communities. Model outputs include population, permanent and mobile homes, public facilities and municipal debt, local property tax rate and state transfer payments, construction work force, construction productivity, and retail and service facilities. The model can be used to simulate the behavior of these variables over a time span covering the pre-boom, construction, operation, and retirement phases of an energy project. The model runs may be interrupted in any year to simulate the effectiveness of assistance measures that have been proposed by national, state, local, and energy company officials. In these ways, the model can be used to help deal with boom-town problems and so minimize social and economic disruption from future energy construction projects.

• Research Organization: Los Alamos Scientific Lab., N.Mex. (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-36
• OSTI ID: 7240663
• Report Number(s): LA-6424-MS
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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