passed resolutions opposing OCS development, or have gone on record 

 stating concern about OCS development within their boundaries: the 

 Cities of Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, Seal Beach, San Clemente, 

 Santa Monica, Santa Barbara, and the county of Santa Barbara. 



Jurisdictions that offered generally negative testimony on environ- 

 mental statements regarding OCS development or participated in the 

 critique of the BLM's Draft Environmental Statement include the Cities 

 of Los Angeles, San Diego, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Riverside, Santa 

 Barbara, Newport Beach, Torrance, Palos Verdes Estates, Rancho Palos 

 Verdes, Laguna Beach, and Huntington Beach. 



Also, the Southern California Association of Governments (SCAG), 

 has taken a position of limited leasing or no leasing at all. This 

 was described in SCAG's testimony to BLM on Sale 35 by Los Angeles 

 Supervisor James Hayes and delivered orally by Mayor Robert Ward at 

 BLM hearings on the final environmental statement in Los Angeles, 

 California in May, 1975. 



The League of Women Voters and Carl Hetrick of the University of 

 California at Santa Barbara conducted a public opinion survey which 

 revealed that over half of those surveyed felt that offshore oil 

 development was a serious problem because of oil spills. However, 

 interviews conducted by the authors in 1976 found an attitude favor- 

 ing carefully controlled and regulated development as a more practical 

 approach, primarily because there seems to be little probability of 

 stopping oil and gas development. The leaders of several environ- 

 mental groups continue to press for elimination of all oil development 



in the Channel . 



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