produces basically none of its own oil or gas, and impacts to the still 

 fledgling tourism industry will most likely not be significant. On the other 

 hand, all indications are that local impacts on the social system will be 

 significant, especially during the first three or four years of any major 

 activity. New employment in primary industries may be offset by losses 

 of jobs in the resort, tourism, and fishing businesses (21, p. 121). An 

 increased population would be the primary means of impact on the regional 

 social infrastructure. New residents will require more water, sewers, elec- 

 trical energy, schools, hospitals, and fire and police protection. Further 

 secondary industrial growth based on the oil economy would place additional 

 direct demands on the infrastructure. 



However, in such centers as Charleston and Jacksonville in the South 

 Atlantic and Newport News, Wilmington-Philadelphia, or Ocean County, New 

 Jersey, in the Mid Atlantic, where growth has already occurred, new growth 

 spurred by OCS development may place only marginal demands upon the existing 

 infrastructure. When such demands are placed on small rural areas, these 

 impacts may prove to be not only unacceptable, but infeasible for the local 

 infrastructure to handle. Existing South Atlantic ports are shown in 

 Figure 13. 



The further impacts of OCS development on land use and conservation areas 

 depend largely upon the degree to which undeveloped land is consumed, upon 

 local attitudes toward conservation (i.e. preservation vs. conservation) in 

 general, and upon the degree to which there are laws and formal systems which 

 protect the lands in the state, county and municipality involved. 



Public wishes, as expressed by elected representatives, do vary from 

 state to state and county to county. Thus, in New Jersey, such counties as 



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