Proposed five-year OCS oil and gas lease-sale schedule: final supplement to the Final Environmental Statement, January 1982-December 1986. Volume 1 of 2. [ME, NH, MA, RI, CT, NY, NJ, DE, MD, VA, NC, SC, GA, FL, AL, LA, TX, CA, AK, MS]

Technical Report · Wed Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1981

OSTI ID:5307870

This supplement considers a July 1981 proposed five-year schedule extending from january 1982 to December 1986 and consisting of 42 oil and gas leasing sales in 14 of the 23 planning areas of the Outer Continental Shelf. This document supplements FEIS 80-3. In this document, the proposed schedule dated July 1981 is examined using two different leasing options, one offering all of the acreage within a planning area and the other offering only areas of hydrocarbon potential. A second alternative re-examines the April 1981 draft proposed schedule. A third alternative examines the current schedule with two leasing options, one offering the current pace and system of leasing, the other using the current leasing system but offering larger amounts of acreage per sale. A fourth alternative concerns two modifications of the proposed schedule in Alaska. The first modification reduces the number of sales offshore Alaska while making adjustments in the timing of other Alaska sales. The second modification covered in this alternative proposes the deletion of all Arctic Ocean OCS sales and this too is analyzed with the area-wide and areas of hydrocarbon potential options. Estimates of the amounts of oil and gas to be discovered are around 8.3 billion barrels of oil and around 39 trillion cubic feet of gas. The number of oil spills that might be expected have also been estimated. Impacts to marine and coastal exosystems will occur in excess of those described in the FEIS for the current schedule. Localized impacts to marine organisms in the vicinity of offshore structures will also increase with the increase in drilling and development activity. In addition, impacts to local economies, infrastructure, land use and subsistence lifestyles (Alaska), and multiple use conflicts on the OCS are expected to occur to an uncertain degree. This supplement also describes the new leasing system and explains what effects it may have on the environment.

• Research Organization: Bureau of Land Management, Anchorage, AK (USA). Alaska Outer Continental Shelf Office
• OSTI ID: 5307870
• Report Number(s): NP-2906137; ON: DE82906137
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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