Deployment Area Selection And Land Withdrawal Acquisition M X Mps M X Multiple Protective Shelter Environmental Technical Report Regional Economic Analysis

On October 2, 1981, the President announced his decision to cancel M-X Multiple Protective Shelter (MPS) basing system. The Air Force was, at the time working to prepare a Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the MPS site selection process. The preliminary FEIS captures the environmental data and analysis in the document that was nearing completion when the President decided to deploy the system in a different manner. This report provides additional detail to information presented in the FEIS for employment, labor force, and earnings in the project area. Information provided in this document that is supplemental to the FEIS includes: (1) detailed analysis of baseline employment, labor force, and earnings; (2) a study of the baseline and projected employment and earnings in the western region, with and without M-X; (3) detailed analysis of M-X and other projects, employment, labor force, and earnings effects in the specific Area of Analysis (AOA) counties; and a (4) study of the anticipated wave escalation effects due to m-X deployment. Originator-supplied key words include: MX missiles, Utah, Texas, Nevada, New Mexico, Unemployment, Predictions, Income.