European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 3, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 20 the stars and stripes tuesday january 3,1989 environmental studies ordered before Calif offshore Oil drilling by the los Angeles times Washington Federal officials must study the Impact that offshore Oil exploration could have on whales Salmon and other migratory Marine species before allowing increased drilling off the California coast the Federal court of appeals Here ruled last week. The decision is a partial Victor for California several other states and the natural resources de sense Council which went to court last year seeking to bloc the government s controversial five year offshore leasing pro Gram. It will not immediately Lockany leasing plans but will provide the new Bush administration a Opportunity to reassess the controversial and aggressive drilling program developed by the Reagan administration under Interior secretaries James Watt and Don Ald Hodel. During the fall presidential Campaign Bush pledged he would order Interior to reas sess the program. Although the administration lost on the migratory species Issue the court rejected several other challenges to the drilling program including an argument that Federal officials had failed to consult adequately with califor Nia congressmen and gov. George Deukmejian before deciding what offshore tracts to lease. That mixed decision left both depart ment of the Interior officials and environmentalists claiming Victory in what was the third round of court challenges Over the Long stalled leasing program. There s a real significant Vic tory Here said natural re sources defense Council attorney James Thornton. Bush he said will now have an Opportunity to draft a Kindler gentler leasing program. A senior department of the Interior official however asking not to be identified called the Rul ing Only a minor setback and predicted that the department could Complete the new analysis in about eight months. California Deputy attorney general Mary Gray Holt said shews gratified by the decision say ing that it would for the firs time compel the department of the Interior to produce a valid cumulative Impact study of re sources important to the state of California including migrating Marine mammals Salmon  while Federal officials tried to assess the risk that whales and other migratory creatures would face in each individual Oil lease area they failed to comply wit the National environmental policy act by making Only a cursor attempt to figure out the cumulative affect of travelling through numerous drilling areas appeals court judges Ruth Bader gins Burg Kenneth m. Starr and David Sentelle concluded. The five year leasing program which was the Centrepiece of the administration s plans to reduce dependency on foreign Oil by in creasing Domestic production has been mired in controversy since it was announced in 1980. After court challenges that year and again in 1982, Congress imposed series of moratoriums Banning new sales off the coasts of califor Nia and in sensitive fisheries in the North Atlantic. Hodel announced the most recent version of the program in 1987, prompt Early anti nuke activist Dies after heart surgery wheat Ridge Colo. A or. Carl j. Johnson an Early and outspoken critic of the Rock Flats nuclear weapons Plant has died of complications from hear surgery. He was 59. Johnson was forced to resign a Jefferson county health director in May 1981, following his publication of studies showing a higher Inci Dence of cancer in areas of Jefferson and Denver counties close to the Rocky Flats Plant 16 Miles North West of Denver. Johnson sued numerous county officials Over the fir ing. He received a $150,000 settlement in january 1985. Ing the current  the migratory species Issue affects Only West coast sections of the leasing program the court s ruling would appear to re move the Legal barriers to leasing in the North Atlantic off the coast of Massachusetts and in the Gulf of  the Pacific however con Gress has continued to declare moratorium on leasing along the Northern California coast an sales off Southern California were postponed this fall after bus urged a Complete review of the program. The first new lease sales now scheduled for december 1989, when tracts off the North slope of Alaska Are due to be auctioned  the court s ruling the government May go ahead an auction off any leases covered by the program. But an analysis of the Impact on migratory species would have to be finished before Oil companies begin any actual development of the lease tracts the court ruled. In practice government lawyers said Oil Compa Nies will be Able to bid on tracts they May be interested in an then would be Able to get their Money Back if the government decides that drilling would have an unacceptable Impact on Marine creatures. The department of the Interi or s own studies show that Mil Lions of barrels of Oil and grease tainted waste water and sediment will be discharged from drilling platforms As a matter of routine environmentalists and state officials argued to the court. And even Small amounts of Oil May Beable to clog the filaments whales use in feeding Holt , no drilling platforms exist along vast areas of the10,000 mile round trip that Grey whales take each year from Baj California to Alaska and Back. The proposed drilling program could add scores of new drilling platforms and More than 1,000new Wells from Central California to Alaska potentially exposing the whales to toxic pollutants Over thousands of Miles of their Jour Ney the state argued to the court. 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