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<br />OOlJJ8 <br /> <br />FOREWORD <br /> <br />This book has been prepared through cooperation between the Federal Energy Administration <br />and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. in response to inquiries from officials, <br />firms and private citizens from all parts of the United States asking how to manage growth when an <br />area is suddenly affected by a major energy project. Growth management is difficult enough when <br />a metropolitan area has many years in which to plan for and absorb in-migration and natural popu- <br />lation increases. When a major plant is to be constructed, mining started or expanded, or oil brought <br />in from off-shore facilities, the small towns and counties usually involved are expected suddenly to <br />make available housing and related facilities, transportation. and other essential services. With a <br />limited tax base, often without planning capacity and totally without experience, these commun- <br />ities necessarily turn to larger units of government for assistance. <br />There is now a limited amount of contemporary experience to draw upon. It is the intention of <br />this publication to share that experience with those who are immediately confronted with, or are <br />students of, these problems. Some of the early work has been accomplished through grants-pro- <br />vided through the Department's 701 Comprehensive Planning Assistance Program-including gran- <br />tees such as Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, areawide councils of governments. and counties. Others <br />have used State, local and foundation or corporate funds. Special 701 grants were recently awarded <br />groups of States on the East Coast and in the Rocky Mountain area to assist them to develop co- <br />operative solutions to, problems related to off-shore oil and extensive strip mining. <br />The President has made clear the need to expand domestic energy supplies within this decade. <br />At the same time, the associated fiscal, environmental and community imbalances and alterations <br />can and must be addressed. To accomplish this, important and parallel improvements in the plan- <br />ning and management capacity of States, areawide agencies and local governments will be required. <br />This is work toward which 701 funds ha\Je been applied since 1954. This publication reflects HUD's <br />intention to enable all jurisdictions to benefit from the significant experience of a few through the <br />collection and dissemination of that experience. <br />This guide also reflects the first major product of a recent cooperative agreement between the <br />Federal Energy Administration and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. We <br />acknowledge the assistance of their staff in composition of th is guide and in cooperation in research <br />and editorial work related to the guide. In particular, thanks are due Hubert Van Dyke and Emmett <br />Turner. Primary authorship and composition of the guide was done by David C. Williams, including <br />data for charts and tables which are largely a result of his own research. <br />This publication should not be taken as an expression of either HUD or FEA policy. <br />Rather, it is an attempt to synthesize and present the composite experiences to date of States, <br />area wi des, counties and cities coping with the impact of rapid growth resultant from the construc- <br />tion and/or development of new energy-related facilities_ As such, it is non-technical and whenever <br />possible relies upon case studies the reader may refer to for further information, drawn from the <br />experience of local government officials themselves. Names and addresses are current as of the date <br />the guide went to press. <br /> <br />David O. Meeker, Jr. FAIA, AlP <br />Assistant Secretary <br />Community Planning and Development <br />March 1976 <br />