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• A secondary portion of this nnalysis was to determine the probable impact on <br />secondary employment of increased coal employment. Table II-7 presents the <br />determination of a Type II multiplier for coal employment. A Type II <br />multiplier is the impact on indirect and induced employment by increases in <br />direct employment. The data on Table II-7 contain an implicit assumption that <br />the coal industry is the only driving sector of the area's economy. There- <br />fore, all increases in employment in the area can be tied to coal employ- <br />ment. This nssumption yields a very liberal multiplier of 1.5 for the 1976- <br />1960 period. This means that for every one direct job, approximately 1.5 <br />indirect and induced jobs were created during this period. This is a liberal <br />estimate, since only changes in coal employment are counted as changes in <br />direct employment. <br />Further evidence for a multiplier of 1.5 is provided by the Department of <br />Housing and Urban Development and the Environmental Protection Agency in their <br />publications Rapid Growth from Energy Projects (1976) and the Action Handbook <br />(1978), respectively. Both documents suggest that a total multiplier of 1.5 <br />• during the operation phase of projects is reasonable. In addition, the <br />authors of the Utah Input-Output Study: Projections of Income, Employment, <br />Output and Revenue prepared by the Bureau of Economic and Business Research at <br />the University of Utah also suggest a Type iI multiplier of 1.5. <br />Therefore, in the remainder of this study it will be assumed that future <br />employment increases will be met by in-migrants and that a multiplier of 1.5 <br />will be used. <br />The next section discusses the status of municipal services by town to <br />determine the ability of towns to absorb growth. <br />D. Mun ici~al and County Services <br />The present condition of existing services are summarized in Table II-b. <br />Generally, every town is in need of improvement and/or expansion of a public <br />works project (water, sewer or streets). The condition of town services is <br />• not too surprising, given the historical agrarian belief that a town 'isn't to <br />live in, only to shop in." Another factor that confounds town services is the <br />lack of a county zoning ordinance; that is, if it is just as easy to purchase <br />16 <br />