The recently formed Forest County Potawatomi Excavating and Construction
Company coul
business opportunities during the construction phase of the project. The
firm should be able
with minority status, and it has journeymen, heavy equipment operators, and
qualified diesel
mechanics. Revenue from bingo games, cigarette sales, and firewood sales
probably would i
due to increased business activity during the construction and operation
periods.

Housing Impacts - Housing occupied by Forest County Potawatomi both on tribal
lands and i
immediate vicinity is substandard. Although limited funds are available for
improvement, ul
the housing stock has been difficult. Limited family incomes and the resulting
unwillingness
lending institutions to mortgage homes on tribally-owned land contribute
to the substandard
of the housing stock and constrain the ability to acquire new and/or adequate
housing. Adde
*difficulties occur because of the isolation of housing units spread over
an 11,000 acre area o
lands and poor access roads.

The development of the mine/mill could worsen the housing conditions of the
Forest County
Potawatomi. Based on the household survey, only 16 of 92 Potawatomi residences
would has
adequate room to accommodate a person or family who returned for project-related
employ
More than one-half of the homes are mobile homes or trailers. In addition,
homes already a
crowded, housing on the average 4.1 persons, while the national average is
2.7 persons per h(
Thirty-one residences would have great difficulty accommodating additional
people, and for
(49%) would have no room for additional people. The possibility of upgrading
and adding to I
present housing stock is very limited. Construction period and first dollar
payments made t(
tribe, if the project proceeds, would help offset increased costs to the
tribe, and could be us
improve housing conditions. The tribe also could apply to the MIB for discretionary
grants.

Other Impacts - Law enforcement services for the Forest County Potawatomi
are provided I
Forest County Sheriff' s Department. With project development and a substantial
population
predicted to move into the project area, however, the Sheriff' s Department
would likely ha'
increase in the number of emergency and routine calls. Nearly one-half of
the Potawatomi
interviewed stated law enforcement response time was bad or very bad. Thus,
unless improN
could be made, law enforcement service to the Potawatomi could worsen.

Additional crowding of the Potawatomi by returning reservation members would
impact the
tribal capacity for provision of services. An additional burden would be
placed on waste ren
health and human services, tribal administration, and related services.

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white culture.

Closure - Impacts of mine/mill closure can only be described in qualitative
terms. To the extent th
Potawatomi had been employed directly with the mine/mill, employment would
end. Unemploymeni
compensation would be available to those formerly employed. This would make
the transition
somewhat easier, but the benefits would be temporary. Overall employment
including some of the;:
indirect employment would be reduced economic activity, reduced expenditures,
and less need for
services.

Business activities of the Potawatomi such as the cigarette sales, bingo
games, logging and firewood
sales, excavating, as well as any other developed during the project, probably
would be impacted by
lower sales. Following project closure, or when the stream of net proceeds
taxes would stop, the
tribe would no longer receive the $100,000 indexed, annual first-dollar payments
from the MIB. The
tribe, however, would be eligible for funds from the MIB through its discretionary
grant program if
sufficient funds were available.



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