HomeMy WebLinkAbout84-95 - Outer Continental Shelf Offshore LeasingRESOLUTION NO. 84 -95
• A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF NEWPORT BEACH ON THE PREPARATION OF THE
DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR FIVE YEAR OUTER
CONTINENTAL SHELF OFFSHORE LEASING PROGRAM
WHEREAS, the Department of Interior is preparing an
updated Five Year Outer Continental Shelf Offshore Leasing
Program and has requested comments thereon from interested
parties by way of a notice in the Federal Register, on July 11,
1984; and
WHEREAS, the new Five Year Outer Continental Shelf
schedule, once adopted, will specify which offshore areas shall
be leased for offshore drilling activities between mid -1986 and
mid -1999; and
WHEREAS, all tracts within the Central and Northern
California Outer Continental Shelf Planning Area, and all tracts
within the Southern California Five Year Outer Continental Shelf
Planning Area are presently being considered for inclusion in
multiple sales, which could take place during the course of the
new Five Year Plan; and
WHEREAS, leases already granted, and soon to be
granted, within the Southern California Outer Continental Shelf
Planning Area, are now at a threshold where additional leasing in
this planning area would overload existing and proposed petroleum
transportation facilities. Additional lease sales in this
planning area would also exceed the ability of State and Local
agencies to plan for the mitigation of resulting environmental
impacts, such as degradation of air and water quality.
• Consideration of an equitable sharing of the risks associated
with outer continental shelf activities, and the degree of energy
production expected from each planning area, dictates that
additional lease sales within the Southern California Outer
Continental Shelf Planning Area should not be included in the new
Five Year Program now being formulated; and
WHEREAS, the current development of recent petroleum
discoveries on leases already granted within the Santa Maria
basin, in the Central and Northern California Outer Continental
• Shelf Planning Area, will soon make this planning area one of the
Nation's major oil producers among the entire United States outer
continental shelf. The resultant impacts on onshore air quality,
commercial fishing activities and water quality, will, also bring
a high degree of risk of this Planning Area. For these reasons,
further lease sales within the Central and Northern California
Outer Continental Shelf Planning Area, should not be included in
the new Five Year Program; and
WHEREAS, provisions presently in effect in the Fiscal-
Year 1984 interior Appropriations Act, preclude expenditures of
funds for specified outer continental shelf leasing related
activities. Areas presently covered by both the Central and
Northern California provision, and the Southern California
provision of the Fiscal -Year 1984 Interior Appropriations Act
should therefore be exempt from inclusion in the new Five Year
Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program now being
formulated.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that all tracts within
the Southern California and the Central and Northern California
Outer Continental Shelf Planning Areas, should not receive
further consideration for inclusion in any lease sales in the new
Five Year Outer Continental Shelf Leasing Program; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that all California offshore
tracts which are subject to the provisions of the Fiscal -Year
1984 interior Appropriations Act, and those tracts between
• Newport Beach and Catalina Island, shall be exempt from further
consideration for inclusion in the new Five Year Outer
Continental Offshore Shelf Leasing Program, now being prepared;
and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that this Resolution be
transmitted, on behalf of the City of Newport Beach, to the
• Deputy Associate Director for Offshore Leasing, at 12203 Sunrise
Alley Drive, Reston, Virginia 22091, to arrive prior to August
27, 1984
ADOPTED this 13th day of August , 1984,
ATT ST:
1 Clerk
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