CONGLOMERATE: United States. 1981.   A term used in Crisis Relocation Planning to describe the combination of a risk area and a host area as a planning district.  Risk areas were defined as jurisdictions immediately around expected nuclear targets; host areas were areas to which the population would be relocated.  Host areas were expected to be located from 30 to 100 miles from the risk area.  By 1981, jurisdictions surrounding 51 strategic nuclear retaliatory force bases and approximately 240 other areas not associated with strategic forces had been identified as risk areas; the total number of possible risk areas was cited as being approximately 400. 

Clanahan, Russell B., “Georgia Tackles Crisis Relocation,” Emergency Management, Volume 1, Number 2, Winter 1981, pp. 2-5.

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