Santa Barbara County 



Several proposals for new or expanded OCS-related developments have 

 been pending in Santa Barbara County for two years. The County is attempt- 

 ing to implement a consolidation policy (See below, "Special Features") 

 requiring that all new oil and gas facilities be combined to minimize 

 impacts. Additionally, an LNG vaporization facility is proposed for Point 

 Conception, at the west end of the Santa Barbara Channel. The recent 

 Coastal Zone Conservation Act stipulates that only one such facility may 



be constructed on the coast. This leaves uncertain the fate of the pro- 



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 posals for Santa Barbara, Ventura County and Port of Los Angeles. 



Planning for production is quite advanced. This results mainly from 

 efforts of the Director of the County Office of Environmental Quality to 

 force the consideration of all available options in the environmental 

 impact reports. Also, the County Board of Supervisors established a 

 policy requiring consolidation of facilities in existing sites or limita- 

 tion to as few sites as possible. Target areas identified by the OCS 

 Task Force include the coastline from Point Conception to Ellwood, the 

 Ellwood area from Naples to Coal Oil Point, Carpinteria around the exist- 

 ing Standard Oil processing plant, and possibly the Santa Barbara Channel 

 Islands. The latter could serve as processing and storage areas for oil 

 produced from tracts in the deepwater areas. 



Specific sites now under consideration by County planners are (l)Los 

 Flores Canyon, approved for use by Exxon for an oil and gas processing 

 plant, (2) Ellwood, site of existing ARCO oil processing plant and subject 

 of an application for expansion, and(3)Naples, an area on the bluffs that 

 AMINOIL wants for a tank farm that is to be connected to a proposed marine 



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