Final environmental statement. Proposed five-year OCS oil and gas lease sale schedule, March 1980-February 1985

Book · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1980

OSTI ID:5720246

The statement considers a proposed five-year schedule consisting of 30 oil and gas lease sales in 15 areas of the Outer Continental Shelf. Nine other alternatives are examined. Three primarily involve sale delays within the five-year timeframe - two to obtain additional environmental information in one Alaska sale area and in Central and Northern California, and the third to allow communities shoreward of three Alaska sale areas to conduct coastal zone management planning. Three alternatives primarily involve omissions of sales from the schedule; one to allow for longerterm environmental studies in one Alaska area, a second to allow technology for certain sea ice conditions to be developed in a non-frontier area, and a third to reduce oil production on the west coast, ameliorating transportation and refining requirements. Two alternatives involve a slower pace of leasing and would combine benefits of the other alternative schedules. These alternatives include 25 and 28 sales. A final schedule alternative includes 33 sales in 13 leasing areas. A no action and conservation alternative is also considered. Mean oil and gas resource estimates from the proposed schedule are 6.6 billion barrels of oil and 29 trillion cubic feet of gas. In excess of 33 oil spills are statistically probable as a result of activities conducted on lease sales included on the schedule. Impacts to marine and coastal populations will occur as a result of the proposal. Localized impacts to marine organisms in the vicinity of offshore structures will also occur. In addition, impacts to local economies, infrastructure, land use, and subsistence lifestyles (Alaska), and use conflicts on the OCS, are anticipated. Resources of particular concern which may be most vulnerable to adverse impacts from offshore oil development are identified in each leasing area.

• OSTI ID: 5720246
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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