ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on changes in local employment patterns, the level and distribution of income, community price structures, and revenues and expenditures of local governments likely to occur as a result of repository development. It identifies the major economic and fiscal effects likely to result from repository development, and reviews the state of knowledge concerning each. The chapter explains the methods and techniques which can be employed in estimating the magnitude, timing, and distribution of such effects. The direct employment effects of a nuclear repository, like those at other large development projects, typically occur in two phases: the construction of the facility and its subsequent operation. Development of a nuclear repository can be expected to result in substantial changes in income in the affected area. One of the impacts that often affects rapidly growing resource development areas is the increase in prices resulting from increased demands for many goods and services.
