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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />new high school. And I might add that since 1970 there has been a <br />waiting list for any available trailer spaces within the community. <br /> <br />Approximately seventy-five percent of the development since 1970, as <br />I mentioned, has taken place in the last two to three years. During <br />this same period of time, we have rejected approximately 500 m6bile <br />home units that have been requested to be constructed in the community. <br />This we have had to do because.we could not furnish the water to the <br />trailers. Another consideration ,was that it did not add a very badly <br />needed tax base to the community.. So we have leaned towards develop- <br />ments that would go directly into,our ad valorem tax base. <br /> <br />The basic community has been maintained through most of its history by <br />ranching, farming, and related industries. Coal mining has been a big <br />factor in the past. It was a significant industry prior to about 1958 <br />when the last major coal operations closed down. This was Mount Harris, <br />an area five miles east of Hayden. <br /> <br />The energy picture began to change in 1963 with the construction of the <br />Hayden Unit Number One and the coal mining to support this steam <br />generation plant~ During 1970 the energy picture has increased dras- <br />tically. The effects of energy emplo~ent and supporting construction <br />personnel have completely inundated the community since approximately <br />1970. There are some facts on employment figures as affects the <br />community of Hayden. There are presently 415 personnel employed <br />directly in the energy field in the Hayden vicinity. One Hundred <br />seventy of these families reside within the town of Hayden. This does <br />not include temporary construction personnel directly involved with <br />energy connected projects such as the Hayden Station, Hayden Unit <br />Number Two, the Craig Station, which at this point stands at about. 150 <br />families. This figure would probably be considerably higher if we had <br />facilities for them to stay in. <br /> <br />The immediate and up to a ten-year future for the coal industry presents <br />a sizable impact for the Hayden cormnunity. Consultation,with the <br />following companies, which I made these calls last Thursday, some of the <br />companies I was able to contact such as Energy Fuels, the W. R. Grace <br />Company, Peabody Coal Company, Sun Coal Company, and Coal Fuels Corpo- <br />ration. I was able to obtain some of their plans for the next ten <br />years. <br /> <br />Their tentative plans that they would say were definite plans - I did <br />not use any figures ,from plans that they were not definite on or <br />could not give me a timetable on~ But on their definite plans, in the <br />next ten years these companies will require an additional manpower base <br />of 840 at a minimum. The figures are about 1,050, but the 840 was a <br />minimum, and that is what I used. <br /> <br />The housing needs based on these additional employees and the placement <br />of them in the community would reflect about 420 new families in Hayden. <br />The present coal industry and energy industry in the area, Hayden has <br />been receiving about fifty percent of the employees - furnishing <br />housing for about fifty percent of the employees. ' And I did not take <br />into consideration any of the companies that are in the Craig area. <br /> <br />-15- <br />