CHAMBEiS CONSULTANTS AND PLANNERS 



P.O. Box 356 ■ 10557 Beach Boulevard 



Stanton, California 90680 



714/828-3324 



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December 15, 1980 

 (3005) 



Union Oil Co. 

 P.O. Box 6176 

 Ventura, California 93006 



Attention: Ken Guziak 



Dear Ken: 



As you requested in your conversation with Mel on December 15, here is a 

 description of our marine mammal program. 



Chambers Consultants and Planners (CCP) is working as a contractor to the 

 Naval Ocean Systems Center (NOSC) to develop a method to interview workers on 

 oil and gas platforms to determine the proximity of large marine mammals to oil 

 and gas platforms. This interview program is a small part of a large program 

 in which NOSC is trying to find out if marine mammals are affected by noise from 

 offshore oil operations. 



We would like to have two people from CCP and an observer from NOSC inter- 

 view workers from two platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel. Vie would be able 

 to conduct all our interviews in the crew boats going out to the platforms. If 

 possible, we would like to put the posters and sighting cards out on the platforms 

 themselves. We would then like to come back two weeks after the initial inter- 

 view and collect any cards which have been filled out and conduct some follow-up 

 interviews. Each visit to each platform would take about one day, and we would 

 be visiting each platform a total of two times. We enclose copies of the 

 posters, the sighting cards, and the questionnaire. 



