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EMD-78-39 1 (1978-03-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaawwh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DOCUMENT RESUB 05358 - (807656931 Opportunities To Resolve Some Basic Conflicts over Outer Continential Shelf Leasing and Development. ZBD-78-39; B-114678. March 16. 1978. 4 pp. * appendix (12 pp.). Report to Secretary, Department of the Interior; by Ronte Canfield, Jr., Director, Energy and minerals Div. Issue Area: Energy: Role of Fossil Fuels in Meeting Future leeds (1609). Contact: Ene~gy and Minerals Div. Budget Function: Natural Resources, Environment, and Sherr;y: Energy (305). Congressional Relevance: louse Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs; Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Authority: Intergovernmental Cooperation Act of 1968 (82 Stat. 1098; 42 U.S.C. 4201). Outer Ccnntinental Shelf Lands Act of 1953. S. 9 (95th Cong.). 5,2. 1614 (95th Cong.). Development of Outer continental Shelf (OCS) oil and natural gas resources has received public criticism in all coastal areas during the past several years. Conflicts over OCS development stem from questions about initial development and the needs of parties affected by the Department of the Interior's plans. Findings/Conclusions: The Department of the Interior has made reasonably good progress in opening the OCS planning and management process to greater public participation. In recent lease sale planning, the Department has provided the States opportunities to influence leasing decisicns and has limited leasing as a result of State and local concerns. One prevalent weakners is that affected parties have not been assured that their invoivement and input in lease scheduling, tract selection, and environmental monitoring have been, or will be, given serious consideration by the Department. Specific concerns involve: how monitoring should be accomplished. how the monitoring results will be used and by whom, and what parties will have acsess to monitoring data as a basis for informed decisionaking. another weakness causing controversy involves the availability and adequacy of information supporting leasing decisicis. Recommendations: The Secretary of the Interior should: publish regulations uhich provide opportunities for State and local participation at all key points in the leasing process, including the opportunity for formulating lease planning schedules and tract selection and the opportunity for participation :n environmental monitoring efforts. He should insure the environmental baseline and monitoring progran effectiveness by establishing: a minimum timeframe for commencing monitoring studies, standardized sampling and analyzing techniques, organizational responsibility for making and acting on recommendations for changes, and regulations governing access to baseline and monitoring results. The Secretary of the Intexior should also: direct a geological

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