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Exploration Drilling Activities EIS -- Scoping Meetings

The Pacific OCS Region has scheduled two public scoping meetings to provide information to and receive comments from the public concerning proposals to drill delineation wells in four undeveloped units offshore California.  Information about the proposals is available on our website.

December 6, 2000 -- Santa Barbara
5:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Fess Parker Doubletree Inn
Sierra Madre Room
633 East Cabrillo Blvd

January 22, 2001 -- Santa Maria
5:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Allan Hancock College
Marian Theater
Building D
800 South College Drive

The format for these two meetings is as follows:

  • Poster Sessions and informal discussions with MMS resource specialists

  • Presentation of Project Descriptions for the four delineation drilling projects

  • Presentation of the Proposed Action and Cumulative Analysis components of the EIS

  • Public Input -- Open Microphone

For the Open Microphone session, the following groundrules will apply:

  • A time limit may be established for comments based on the number of people requesting the opportunity to speak

  • Speakers and audience will be respectful of others

  • The facilitator will summarize key points from comments during the course of the session

An electronic recording of the session will be made.

Scoping Meetings are not the only avenues to provide input about the scope and content of the EIS.  We encourage your comments by conventional mail or email.

Office of Environmental Evaluation
(Exploration Activities EIS Team)
Minerals Management Service, Pacific Region
770 Paseo Camarillo
Camarillo,  CA 93010

or

ExplorationEIS@mms.gov  

Written comments should include the name and mailing address of the person commenting. 

Our practice is to make comments, including names and home addresses of respondents, available for public review during regular business hours.  Individual respondents may request that we withhold their home address from the record.  We will honor such requests to the extent allowable by law.  There may also be circumstances in which we would withhold from the record a respondent's identity, as allowable by law.   If you wish for us to withhold your name and/or address, you must state this prominently at the beginning of our comment.  However, we will not consider any anonymous comments.  We will make all submissions from organizations or businesses, and from individuals identifying themselves as representatives or officials of organizations or businesses available for public inspection in their entirety.

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