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 affected Alaska Andrus Atlantic balance Basin BEAUFORT SEA Bering Sea California canals CD A EH Chairman CHUKCHI SEA coast of California coastal zone concerns Congress consideration decisions Department drilling drilling muds EH FP G environmental F PGNS Federal fisheries fishermen fishing five-year plan Florida Keys FP G NS GAS LEASING PROGRAM geophysical Governor Gulf of Mexico hearing Huff hydrocarbons impact included Interior issue land loss lease sales levees Louisiana Marine marsh moratoria moratorium OCS activities OCS development OCS Lands Act OCS leasing OCS oil OCS planning areas offshore oil oil and gas Outer Continental Shelf Panetta percent pipeline platforms political potential presale problem production Proposed Final Program protect regions rigs Santa Barbara Santa Barbara Channel Santa Monica Bay schedule Secretary Hodel sediment spoil bank statement Straits of Florida subarea deferrals Subcommittee TAUZIN Thank tracts Turner U.S. REPRESENTATIVE Watt wetlands
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Page 106 - 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 33 - 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...