Draft environmental impact statement
Subtitle: proposed 1982 outer continental shelf oil and gas lease sale offshore Southern California : OCS sale no. 68
By: prepared by Bureau of Land Management, Dept. of the Interior
Contributors: United States. Bureau of Land Management. Pacific Outer Continental Shelf Office
Publisher: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Public lands; Management; Offshore oil well drilling; Continental shelf; Environmental aspects; Oil and gas leases; Gas well drilling
Other titles: OCS sale no. 48 :; Proposed 1982 outer Continental Shelf oil and gas lease sale offshore Southern California; Outer continental shelf sale number 48 :
Description: Proposed OCS Sale No. 68 includes a maximum offering of 218 tracts, with a total area of about 445,190 hectares (1,112,975 acres). The tracts are offshore Southern California, between 3 and 84 geographic miles offishore and in water depths from about 46 to 1500 m deep (150 to 4,900 feet). Tracts comprise three subareas: the Santa Barbara Channel; Inner Banks (containing the Anacapa Island area, Santa Monica Basin and the San Pedro area); Outer Banks (containing the area south of Santa Rosa Island, San Nicolas Basin, Dall Bank, southeast Tanner Bank and Santa Tomas Knoll). There are existing Federal oil and gas leases in each of these three subareas.
Notes: "Lead agency: United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Pacific Outer Continental Shelf Office."

"BLM-YN-P/T-81-001-1792."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 5-1-5-19) and index.