OCS 5-year Development Plan: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Panama Canal/Outer Continental Shelf of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, on the Department of the Interior's Recommendations for this Nation's Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program for the Next 5 Years, May 21, 1987 |
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5-Year Program acreage air quality Alaska balance Basin Bering Sea Big Sur buffer California canals CD A EH Chairman coast of California coastal zone committee concerns Congressional decisions domestic drilling muds effects environment environmental Federal fisheries fishermen five-year plan Florida Keys Governor Gulf of Mexico habitat hydrocarbons hydrologic impact important included increased interest issue land loss lease sale levees LEVINE Louisiana Marine marsh million barrels moratoria moratorium negotiations OCS activities OCS development OCS Lands Act OCS leasing OCS oil offshore California offshore drilling offshore oil oil and gas oil spills onshore Outer Continental Shelf PANETTA percent petroleum pipeline platforms political potential problem production Proposed Final Program protect rigs River Santa Barbara Santa Barbara Channel Santa Monica Bay schedule sea otter Secretary Hodel sediment spoil bank statement Straits of Florida STUDDS studies subarea deferrals Subcommittee TAUZIN Thank tracts Turner U.S. REPRESENTATIVE wetlands
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Page 209 - And brass eternal slave to mortal rage ; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store ; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay ; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away.
Page 118 - Mr. Chairman and members of the Subcommittee. I am pleased to come before you today to discuss the...
Page 181 - ARTICLE II This agreement shall become operative immediately as to those states executing it whenever any two or more of the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida...
Page 186 - Secretary shall select the timing and location of leasing, to the maximum extent practicable, so as to obtain a proper balance between the potential for environmental damage, the potential for the discovery of oil and gas, and the potential for adverse impact on the coastal zone.
Page 139 - Shelf in a manner which is consistent with the need (A) to make such resources available to meet the Nation's energy needs as rapidly as possible, (B) to balance orderly energy resource development with protection of the human, marine, and coastal environments, (C) to insure the public a fair and equitable return on the resources of the Outer Continental Shelf, and (D) to preserve and maintain free enterprise competition...
Page 49 - States that — (3) the Outer Continental Shelf is a vital national resource reserve held by the Federal Government for the republic, which should be made available for expeditious and orderly development, subject to environmental safeguards...
Page 221 - WN and GW Thayer. 1982. Quantification of National Marine Fisheries Service habitat conservation efforts in the southeast region of the United States.
Page 228 - I would be happy to answer any questions members of the subcommittee may have...
Page 209 - Before the land rose out of the ocean, and became dry land, chaos reigned; and between high and low water mark, where she is partially disrobed and rising, a sort of chaos reigns still, which only anomalous creatures can inhabit.
Page 279 - HFC study projects even higher oil import figures than the DOE report. Depending upon whether future prices follow a relatively low or a relatively high path, the acceleration in the decline of future domestic production, accompanied by even moderate increases in consumption, could result in imports of 35 percent to 50 percent of consumption by 1990, 45 percent to 60 percent by 1995, and 50 percent to 70 percent by the year 2000. To put...