3. Tentative leasing tracts will be selected in December of 1977. 



4. A Draft Environmental Impact Statement will be issued by March 

 of 1978. 



5. A public hearing will be held in May of 1978. 



6. The final impact statement will be completed by August of 

 1978. 



7. Both areas will be leased in October of 1978. 



A second sale has been scheduled for November 1980. Only one preleasing 

 study is underway in Oregon, to date. Oregon's Land Conservation and 

 Development Commission (LCDC) is examining the institutional capability 

 of the state to manage OCS development. 



Two OCS-related facilities have been proposed by industry in 

 Oregon. The first involves a proposal by Brown S Root to build a plat- 

 form fabrication yard near Astoria, Oregon. 1 * This fabrication yard 

 would be located on 400 acres of land 10 miles from the Pacific Ocean on 

 the Columbia River. 5 The company plans to build platforms capable of 

 operating in water depths of up to 1,000 feet for use off the coasts of 

 Alaska, Washington, Oregon and California. 6 Platform fabrication could 

 begin as early as 1977 and employ as many as 1,200 persons. 7 Pacific 

 Northwest Natural Gas has proposed the other facility, an LNG storage 

 facility near Newport, Oregon. This facility will probably require the 

 regular service of LNG tankers. 8 Neither the LNG facility or the platform 

 fabrication proposal have obtained the necessary permits yet. 



Oregon has only one small refinery in the state, a 14,000 b/d plant 

 at Portland. 9 However, three refinery proposals along the Columbia 

 River have recently received approval to begin construction from Oregon's 



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