When a new industry is established, unless it is located in an existing community, it may be presumed necessary to develop an entirely new community to house production and associated workers convenient near their place of employment. Housing facilities alone, however, are not the only requisite of a new community. Residents of a new housing development require civic and commercial facilities reasonably convenient to their homes. It has been considered desirable that such facilities be provided as an integral part of a planned community rather than to let them develop without plan on the outskirts of the community development. Builder of an oil-shale industry near Rifle, Colorado are confronted with the necessity of providing adequate housing, civic, and commercial facilities in order to recruit the competent skilled workers needed to man such an industry. Because such facilities do not now exist; because they will be needed in their entirety on or even shortly before, start of such operations; and because there apparently is no basis for securing government, or the usual private, financing available for new housing projects, it will be necessary for industry to (a) finance this development at least in part and (b) to work out a plan of development which will result in an investment on community development that is minimum, is feasible and is recoverable. This report covers the study of community development for the establishment (a)of a "prototype" oil shale plant of about 12,000-barrels per-day capacity and (b) of a 234,000barrel per day oil-shale industry both in the vicinity of Rifle, Colorado.