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<br />Environmental controls will Influence the disposition and Implementation <br />of energy-resource development alternatives and related activities. On the <br />Federal level, relevant legislation to the study includes the 1970 Amendments <br />to the Clean Air Act (Pl 91-604), the National Environmental Policy Act of <br />1969 (Pl 90-190), the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 <br />(Pl 92-500) and the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974 (Pl 93-523). <br /> <br />In addition, submittal of leasIng applIcations, subsequent proposed min- <br />Ing plans, and added transportation linkages must be evaluated in terms of <br />requirements found in the National Environmental Policy Act. Review and con- <br />solidation of the requirements for cost development from Federal leases cur- <br />rently are underway by a combined task force of representatives of the U.S. <br />Bureau of land Management and the U,S. Geological Survey. The draft environ- <br />mental Impact statement became available in January 1976 (U.S. Bureau of land <br />Management and U.S. Geological Survey, written commun., 1976). land-use and <br />strip-mining legislation in Congress is pending. State environmental-control <br />regulations generally override Federal ,laws when they are more stringent. <br />laws dictating allocations and rights of disposition and use of water within <br />the Colorado River Basin also must be consl:dered (Weatherford and Jacoby, <br />1975) . Any confl i ct i ng or i Il-defi ned regulatory roles of State and Federa 1 <br />agencies must be indicated. <br /> <br />Related Socioeconomic Aspects <br /> <br />(Work task I-C) <br /> <br />The following socioeconomic factors will be considered in the first phase <br />of the project: population, public facilities and recreational uses, urban <br />centers and transport,ation corridors, and population shifts with related eco- <br />nomic growth. Much of this material will be gathered and evaluated In collab- <br />oration with staff members of the U.S. Geological Survey's systems-analysis <br />group in Reston, Va. Demographic projections will be gathered from several <br />sources including universities and local planning reports and will be analyzed <br />in terms of current basin plans. ,Relevant work has been done at the Univer- <br />sity of Colorado for the entire Upper Colorado River Basin by Udis, Howe, and <br />Kreider (1973). Shi:fts in employment will be viewed in 1 ieu of the number <br />of people that will be 1 iving in the basin. Much of the material here will <br />relate to existing land-ownership patterns and to distributions of mineral- <br />rights ownership among Federal, State, and private groups (see work task I-A). <br />Compilation and review of socioeconomic factors are useful to assess the sev- <br />eral secondary impacts of energy-resource development In tpe basin, particu- <br />l..rly the human-related components, for example, new construction of housing, <br />schools and related, services, public-water supplies and wastewater-treatment <br />faci I !tIes, and increased demands for recreational uses of resources. <br /> <br />Development of the energy and water resources of the Yampa River basin <br />will result In significant increases in population. The dominant Increases In <br />employment opportunities in the basin are expected to occur In areas of energy- <br />resource extraction, conversion, utilization, and transportation, and in areas <br />of related human services. The estimated basin population of 18,000 in 1975 <br />is expected to double or perhaps triple within the next 15 years. These esti- <br />mates ar"e based principally on projected population growth figures for Moffat <br />and Routt Co,untl,es (U. S. Bureau of land Management and U. S. Geo log i cal Survey, <br /> <br />6 <br />