described in Section VI, are in progress. A county-by-county description 

 of the target areas follows. 



San Diego County 



Although no tracts were leased off San Diego's shores, two areas sold 

 in Sale 35 are potentially significant to the county, and large areas have 

 been nominated for leasing in Sale 48 off the coast of San Diego. In 

 Sale 35, 29 tracts were sold in the Santa Rosa-Cortez and Tanner Banks 

 areas. Twenty-one exploratory drilling permit applications have been 

 submitted to the U.S. Corps of Engineers and 19 of those have been granted. 

 The land base, if any, for the development of these tracts cannot be pre- 

 dicted at this time and may depend to some degree on tracts leased in the 

 upcoming Sale 48. Some staging and support services could conveniently 

 be located in San Diego's harbor, which is large enough to accommodate 

 crew boats and supply vessels. Initially, a helicopter staging base is 

 most likely. A potential deepwater port site exists in the northern part 

 of the county at Encino, adjacent to the existing Encino Marine Terminal 

 used to offload fuel oil for a power generating plant. 



Orange County 



1. Huntington Beach . The OCS Task Force identified Huntington Beach 

 as a target area for OCS-related development because of the existing oil 

 storage maintained by Southern California Edison, Gulf, Standard, and 

 AMINOIL Oil Companies, and the processing facilities operated by AMINOIL 

 and SOCAL. The processing facilities presently have an excess capacity 

 of approximately 40,000 BOPD. Oil companies hold 1,750 acres of land in 



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