Northridge, subsea geology. The Geography Remote Sensing Unit at the 

 University of California, Santa Barbara holds other seep and oil pollu- 

 tion contracts and has completed studies for the Coast Guard. 



In Santa Barbara, the County also is working to establish a project 

 management team in cooperation with OPR and the State Energy Commission 

 on the proposed Point Conception LNG facility to provide the local govern- 

 ment with the necessary environmental action expertise. The joint Santa 

 Barbara-Ventura County air pollution and meteorology study is examining 

 oil and gas facility consolidation proposals, and may be able to use data 

 on sensitive receptors being developed in Santa Barbara's HUD-funded air 

 quality/land use planning study to predict regional air pollution impacts 

 caused by DCS development. 



A rich source of information on OCS oil and gas development in 

 Southern California is the research being conducted under contract to 

 the Bureau of Land Management. Numerous private and institutional con- 

 tracts are involved in baseline studies and analysis of all phases of 

 OCS development. The three-part, marine ecology study currently con- 

 ducted by Science Applications, Inc. (SAI) of La Jolla, California 

 appears to be a useful baseline study. Data were collected at 41 water 

 column stations and 777 sediment sampling stations to determine hydro- 

 carbon concentrations in the marine environment. Analysis includes 

 chemical and physical characteristics of oil in the water column, the 

 intertidal areas, and the benthic environment. Some monitoring of oil 

 seep areas is made and a separate study of sublethal hydrocarbon effects 

 is under way. The first report is due in mid-October, 1976, and the 

 second at the end of October, 1976. A continuation study is being 



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