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 18 0p. cit. Northern Gulf Final EIS . pp. 6-7. 

 19 Ibid. pp. 25. 

 20 Ibid. 



- Hammond, J. Governor. December 4, 1975. Letter to Thomas 

 S. Kleppe . Office of the Governor, Juneau. pp. 2. 



- 2 Anchorage Times. January 19, 1976. Agencies Resist Leasing 

 in Gulf . Anchorage Times, Anchorage, Alaska. 



!3 Seattle Times. February 19, 1976. Alaska Oil-Lease Sale 

 Gets Approval . Seattle Times, Seattle, Washington. pp. 1. 



24 Rintoul, B. May 1976. The Gulf of Alaska Lures Explorers 

 with Prime Structures . Offshore. Vol. 36, No. 5. pp. 246. 



!5 Wilson, H. M. April 19, 1976. Shell, ARCO Top Bidders at 

 Gulf of Alaska Sale . Oil and Gas Journal. Vol. 74, No. 16. pp. 21. 



The Bureau of Land Management rejected the high bonus offers on 

 five of the 81 tracts which industry sought to buy in the Gulf 

 because the bids were far below the evaluations of government geo- 

 logists (Blocks 410, 409, 151, 116, 318). BLM Rejects Five Bonus 

 Bids in Gulf of Alaska Lease Sale . Oil and Gas Journal. May 3, 

 1976. pp. 128. 



26 Ibid. pp. 21. 



!7 No author. June 28, 1976. Alaska Gulf Leases Due First 

 Test This Fall . Oil and Gas Journal. Vol. 74, No. 24. pp. 62. 



28 Wilson, H. M. March 15, 1976. Industry Near Long-Sought 

 Crack at Gulf of Alaska . Oil and Gas Journal. Vol. 74, No. 11. 

 pp. 55. 



29 Todd, F. March 1976. Semi-submersible Drilling Rigs to 

 Brave Gulf . Alaska Industry. Anchorage, Alaska. pp. 37, 40, 

 42, 53-54. 



The Sedco 706 is designed to withstand 102 foot waves at 17 

 second intervals and 114 knot winds. 



30 Op. cit. Industry Near Long-Sought Crack at Gulf of Alaska , 

 pp. 51-58. 



31 0p. cit. Alaska Gulf Leases Due First Test This Fall , 

 pp. 62. 



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