VI. REGIONAL INFORMATION AND ANALYSIS 



CURRENT PCS STUDIES 



The OCS Project Task Force in the Governor's Office of Planning and 

 Research (OPR), Sacramento, is preparing a second generation report. 

 Offshore Oil and Gas Development. Southern California (the first report 

 is described in the next section). The preliminary draft was released 

 in August, 1976. Final draft and various specific tasks as noted else- 

 where in this report were to be completed by two separate contract 

 studies in December. Public Interest Economics-West, San Francisco, 

 is re-examining employment and economic impacts of Sale 35 based on 

 tracts actually leased, and has extended the analysis to include new 

 exploration and development in the Santa Barbara Channel area. 



Local Government and Offshore Oil: Santa Barbara County Case Study , 

 by Ruthann Corwin and Patrick Heffernan, is now undergoing review in 

 draft form. It contains a history and description of current issues 

 related to OCS development. Spill trajectory maps and an inventory 

 of critical biological habitats along the coast and their relationships 

 to potential oil spills are under preparation in Environmental Analysis . 



The California State Lands Commission and the OPR have put together 

 a multidisciplinary oil seep research program in response to legislative 

 mandate. Other work is done in Universities. Starting in mid-1976, the 

 four involved Universities and types of research were as follows: Univer- 

 sity of California, Santa Barbara, the use of remote sensing for locating 

 and monitoring seeps; UCLA, ocean chemistry, University of Southern 

 California, surface currents; and California State University at 



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