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<br />14 <br /> <br />other than those most critical ones directly resultant from the impact of <br />energy development. * <br /> <br />The Advisory Committee then reviewed a list of public facilities typically <br />available in a community, county and school district in Colorado. From <br />this list, it selected 12 types of facilities which it thought were high <br />priority, or those most acutely impacted by rapid population growth. <br />These were: <br /> <br />(1) fire protection <br />(2) law enforcement <br />(3) water <br />(4) sewage treatment <br />(5) solid waste collection and disposal <br />(6) hospital and medical facilities <br />(7) detention facilities <br />(8) juvenile treatment and custody facilities <br />(9) county and municipal courts <br />(10) classrooms and other education facilities at the primary and <br />secondary levels <br />(11) recreational facilities <br />(12) administrative space <br /> <br />Issues to be Resolved <br /> <br />After initially reviewing boom town financing problems, some major issues <br /> <br />emerged: <br /> <br />(1) What is the magnitude of the front-end financing problem in energy- <br />impacted areas in Colorado? <br /> <br />*In practice, as the estimates were developed in each of the case study <br />areas, it became difficult to apply these standards to all cases. This <br />was particularly true in the very small communities studied where there <br />are likely to be substantial increases in population and much greater <br />needs for public facilities and services than presently exist. In addi- <br />tion, some of the communities analyzed have facilities (particularly in <br />the water and sewer categories) that are operating well below state <br />standards at the present time. <br />