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city council Meeting 4-9-96
Santa Monica, California
RESOLUTION NUMBER 9014
(City council Series)
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA SUPPORTING THE RENEWAL OF
THE OFFSHORE DRILLING MORATORIUM AND FEDERAL
LEGISLATION TO PROVIDE LONG TERM PROTECTION
FROM OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING
WHEREAS, the u.s. House of Representatives' SUbcommittee on
Department of Interior Appropriations will consider lifting the
current
nationwide
ban
on offshore
oil
drilling
along
environmentally sensitive areas of the Outer Continental Shelf
(OCS); and
WHEREAS I federal legislation has been introduced (RR 2241 and
HR 2242) which provides long term protection from future offshore
oil drilling in sensitive California waters; and
WHEREAS, technology does not exist to fully prevent, clean up I
or contain oil spills for the types of ocean and wind conditions
that are present throughout the year in the affected offshore
waters adjacent to the Santa Monica coast; and
WHEREAS, coastal dependent tourism is a mainstay of the local
economy in the communities of the southern California coast, as
well as other coastal areas in California and elsewhere that would
be impacted by a lifting of the drilling moratorium; and
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WHEREAS, critical commercial fishery tracts would be impacted
by the oil drilling activities that would be permitted by this
action, and that severe fishing conflicts could be expected to
occur; and
WHEREAS, estuaries and river mouths which serve as critical
nursery and food source habitats for commercial fish species would
be in direct proximity to oil drilling activities permitted by a
lifting of the oes drilling moratorium, and would therefore be
subject to significant adverse impacts in the event of a spill; and
WHEREAS, the City of Santa Monica has traditionally taken a
lead role in opposition to offshore drilling proposals that could
impact the southern California coastline,
NOW I THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The city Council hereby urges the u.S. House of
Representatives to support HR 2241 and HR 2242. It also urges the
House of Representatives to include the renewal of the moratoria on
outer continental Shelf oil drilling activities in environmentally
sensitive coastal areas in the 1996 House Interior Appropriations
Bill.
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SECTION 2. The city Clerk shall certify to the adoption of
this Resolution, and thenceforth the same shall be in full force
and effect.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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Adopted and approved thiS 9th of Apnl. 1996
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Mayor
I hereby certify that the foregomg ResolutIon 9014 (CCS) was duly adopted at a meetmg
of the City CouncIl held on the 9th of Apnl, 1996 by the folloWIng vote
Ayes
CouncIlmembers
Abdo, Genser, Greenberg, Holbrook, O'Connor
Noes
CouncIlmembers
None
Abstam
CounCllmembers
None
Absent
CouncIlmembers
Ebner, Rosenstem
ATTEST
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City Clerk