The Economic Impact on Mississippi of Production on the Outer 

 Continental Shelf and of a Proposed Terminal for Supertankers . 

 The study was published in June, 1976. 



Mississippi is also undertaking other OCS impact studies 

 broadly covering current conditions, OCS activities, genera- 

 lized site analysis, evaluation of OCS impacts, and formulation 

 of state strategy. Also, land use and socio economic studies 

 of coastal counties are currently underway by the respective 

 regional planning districts. 



Texas 



The Texas General Land Office has been awarded grants over 

 several years from NOAA to study the onshore impacts of off- 

 shore oil and gas production and to aid the state in developing 

 a coastal zone management program which is now (1977) under 

 accomplishment (U.S. Department of Commerce, 1975b). 



The Texas Coastal Management Program has been a primary 

 source of information for the Texas OCS planning program. 

 Extensive inventories have been made of coastal resources and 

 environmental conditions. The economic and fiscal impacts of 

 offshore development have been addressed by three recent 

 studies concerning economic impact on the state, fiscal 

 impact on the state, and economic impact on the Lower Rio 

 Grande economy. 



The consulting firm which runs the Coastal Management 

 Program is currently developing a methodology to assess 



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