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Proceedings of the Sixth Meeting op the California Advisoky Commission 

 ON Marine and Coastal RESoxmcES 



Recommendations and Resolutions Adopted hy the Commission 



Pursutant to the several topics of the agenda and based on the deliberations 

 as recorded in the Proceedings, the Commission adopted the following recom- 

 mendations and resolutions : 



R-VI-l : concerning oil pollution and offshore drilling in the SANTA 



BARBARA CHANNEL 



The Commission recommends : 



(1) California's Comprehensive Ocean Area Plan (COAP) be pushed to com- 

 pletion with all possible speed, and that those parts dealing with the Santa 

 Barbara Channel, Channel coastline, Channel Islands, and the sea bed between 

 those islands and the coast be completed first and issued separately as prelim- 

 inary working documents. 



(2) The State take the initiative in negotiating joint Federal and State 

 studies on the multiple use of the Santa Barbara Channel, Channel coast and 

 Channel Islands, and the sea bed between those islands and the coast. 



(3) The State initiate plans with all interested parties, and particularly the 

 Federal Government, for a Santa Bai*bara Channel Multiple Use Conference to 

 be held when Items 1 and 2 above are completed. 



(4) The Commission endorse the State of California, Resources Agency "Re- 

 port of the Ad Hoc Committee, State Regulations and Practices, Oil and Gas 

 Operations and Pollution, June 1969," and commend its oflacials for adoption 

 of the report by the State. 



(5) The State take the following factors into consideration in dealing with 

 petroleum production off California : 



(a) the protection of offshore groundwater storage, and 



(b) the protection of underwater state parks and ensurance of the com- 

 patibility of offshore exploitation and development with such parks. 



(6) The Commission change its previous recommendation for delay in further 

 drilling in the Repetto formation and state that, having insufficient information 

 to come to an independent judgment on the question, expresses its confidence 

 in the President's appointment of the Dubridge Committee and in its members, 

 and based on their competence expresses its confidence in their recommendations. 



(7) Further oil and gas leasing of Federal offshore lands in the Channel be 

 postponed at least until the conference referred to in 3 above is held. 



(8) Further new oil and gas leases and production therefrom from State 

 owned offshore Channel lands be similarly postponed. 



(9) Pending the completion of the studies recommended in 1, 2, and 3 abovOj. 

 further testing of underwater completion systems shall be encouraged. 



Resolution of the California Advisory Commission on Marine and 

 Coastal Resources 



r-v-2 : concerning the inventory of coastal lands op the state of california 



The Commission recommends : 



That the definition of the coastal zone for the purpose of this inventory be — 

 "the coastal zone includes publicly and privately owned lands inland to a variable 

 distance from beaches and margins of bays and estuaries but normally does not 

 extend further than the highest elevation in the nearest coastal mountain range. 

 It further includes tide and submerged lands lying seaward to a variable distance 

 from the beaches but normally does not extend further seaward than the outer- 

 most limit of the State's boundaries. The variable distance is to be designated 

 after advice from consultants taking into account all geographical, geological, 

 biological, social and industrial characteristics tending to create an inter- 

 relationship between any area being considered for inclusion in the coastal 

 zone and the activities and interests of the State and the nature and extent 

 of that inter-relationship." 



