The St. Paul and St. George Overall Economic Development Plan

Prepared under a Planning Assistance Grant from the Economic Development Administration U.S. Department of Commerce to the Division of Rural Education, University of AlaskaYe

Gulf of Alaska Coastal Communities: An Overview

The Gulf of Alaska Coastal Communities Coalition is helping Gulf Coast communities find ways to promote development and preserve lifestyles. To assist the Coalition, researchers at the Institute of Social and Economic Research have gathered and organized information for a selection of Gulf Coast communities. The information provides a basis for community residents, the Coalition, Native corporations, regulatory agencies, and others to make decisions about development in these communities. This report summarizes the assembled data and identifies patterns, trends, and significant exceptions in the data. The next section of this report (Part II) provides a broad overview of the entire Gulf Coast. Part III looks in more detail at each region. Part IV contains extensive tables with detailed information for each community. Throughout this report, the footnotes at the bottom of the pages refer to the tables in Part IV with more detailed information.Gulf of Alaska Coastal Communities Coalitio

Alcohol Control by Referendum in Northern Native Communities: The Alaska Local Option Law

When Alaska became a state in 1959, state laws removed control of alcohol regulation from the federal government and Native communities. In 1981, however, the state legislature changed alcohol laws to give residents broad powers to regulate how alcohol comes into their communities via a local option referendum. By mid-1999, 112 small communities had held 197 alcohol control elections under the state law. Sixty-nine percent of these elections added new restrictions on alcohol, while 13% removed restrictions previously imposed. The remaining 18% of elections did not receive a majority vote needed to change the existing status. Most communities passing local option restrictions chose to ban sale and importation. Although most of these elections occurred during the first eight years after the law was passed, elections continue to occur as the law evolves and as communities debate the merits of alcohol control. Although growing evidence suggests that the local option law may reduce adverse effects of alcohol abuse in Alaska Native communities, its most important contributioncmay be to restore to these communities a limited form of self-government

Alaska Statewide and Regional Economic and Demographic Systems: Effects of OCS Exploration and Development

Prepared for Minerals Management Service Alaska OCS Office Contract Number 29078Ye

Working Paper 94.1

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Electric Load Forecast for Ketchikan, Metlakatla, Petersburg, and Wrangell, 1990-2010

The study area is composed of the Alaskan communities of Ketchikan, Metlakatla, Petersburg, and Wrangell. In this report we call the area Lower Southeast Alaska (LSE). Like that of Southeast Alaska as a whole, the LSE economy is built on timber (logging, lumber, and pulp), fishing, and tourism. Hard rock mining is an emerging but still relatively unimportant basic sector. Although the region has felt the positive effects of the statewide oil boom through increased construction of public buildings and government employment at all levels, it is far less reliant on the petroleum industry than is the rest of the state. Instead, the people of Southeast Alaska are heavily exposed to swings in the world market prices of wood and fish products. The tourism industry has been growing steadily. This report provides information and scenarios for projections of electricity usage for these communities.Alaska Energy Authorit

The Effects of State Expenditures on Rural Population Settlement and Intrastate Population Migration

Volume 1 & 2 in one file

Technical Report No. 124

This report contains projections and analyses of economic and demographic effects of petroleum exploration and development that may occur in Alaska under the proposed Five-Year program, 1987-1991, for leasing the federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). Econometric modeling techniques are used to develop projections for the state of Alaska and the state's Southcentral Region. The projected cumulative effects of the Five-Year Program include an increase of approximately 3 percent in population and employment for both the state and for the Southcentral region. The statewide effects grow during construction of facilities for OCS development and remain relatively constant as petroleum development moves into the operations phase in the late 1990s. Economic activity related to expanded OCS development yields modest new revenues for the state, by the new revenues are not sufficient to offset new demands on public services created by the influx of new residents. The effects grow more slowly in the Southcentral Region, continuing to increase until 2010 to reach or exceed the same percentage increases in population and employment as observed for the state as a whole. The effect of the Five-Year program on Southcentral Region population and employment occurs later than for the state as a whole due to the lags in the multiplier process producing these largely indirect effects.Prepared for Social and Economic Studies Program Minerals Management Service Alaska OCS Region under Contract Number 14-12-0001-30139Ye

The ISER MAP Economic Database Data Sources and Derivations A Companion to the Printed Tables

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