[ Home | Subscribe to E-Updates | Resources | Contact Us | Site Map ] Navigation: Summary Overview Community Survey Jurisdiction- Level Data About The Program About the Consultants Yucca Mountain Subscribe to E-Updates Resources Contact Us Site Map Home Page     The Clark County Monitoring Program was borne out of two independent efforts. In 2004, Clark County's Nuclear Waste Division and its consultant team implemented the Yucca Mountain Monitoring Program. The Yucca Mountain Monitoring Program was designed in furtherance of the Clark County's Impact Assessment Report (2002). This seminal work on the potential impacts of the transportation and storage of high-level nuclear waste at the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository analyzed economic, fiscal, environmental and public safety considerations. The Yucca Mountain Monitoring Program was developed to provide a foundation for on-going policy discussions and a baseline from which economic, fiscal or social changes could be monitored over time. Concurrently, the Clark County Board of County Commissioners commenced the Community Growth Initiative (the "Initiative"). The Initiative was intended to create a forum to discuss the benefits and challenges that come with being the fastest-growing community in the United States. As part of this process, Commissioners formed a Community Growth Task Force to study growth matters and engage in public debate. The Task Force had its first meeting on March 30, 2004 and submitted its findings to the Board of County Commissioners in April of 2005. As part of its work product, the Task Force also developed the Clark County Community Indicator Website. The site provided a broad cross section of economic, fiscal and social performance and outcome data used by the Task Force in analyzing market conditions and formulating their recommendations. A substantial amount of overlap existed between these two projects. As such, the two were merged into the Clark County Monitoring Program. Because the Yucca Mountain Monitoring Program was a recurring effort and because it was designed to consider regional and sub-regional (i.e., city level) factors, the information generated by the Community Growth Task Force was integrated into the Yucca Mountain Monitoring Program where useful and appropriate. While the two efforts are now assimilated under a single cover, the relevant indicators are tracked and funded independently. Department of Energy funds are used to track indicators relevant to the Yucca Mountain Project and general fund dollars support the balance of indicators tracked. All duplicative efforts have been eliminated. View Yucca Mountain » The Program's Brief History: Yucca Brief History: The Jurisdictions: