Mr. BAILEY. Thank you, sir.

Our nomination is basically a reflection of the vital economic and environmental interests of the region. I think you should know from the economic point of view that we have several very great interests in our region. One is a $1 billion tourist industry, a $2 billion annual military industry, a fishing industry, and to speak directly to the entire region that we are talking about, the whole economic basis based upon a quality of life that basically says this is a good place to live.

Because of this we have tremendous R. & D. industries, et cetera. I think it was very much to the point that on the front page the headlines in the Post this morning spoke of the deterioration of specific areas of our region due to the smog problems.

I want to make it very clear that we are not fighting the oil industry in our proposal. We are including the oil industry in our proposal. But what we are saying is we need to take a realistic look at what marine sanctuary means and what it can mean to the very southern part of southern California.

I would commend for your attention the map in figure 1 of our testimony. This appears on page 8. This very graphically sets forth what we propose in our nomination area. Basically, this map is talking about an area 7,400 square miles in size; however, you will notice that it is divided into several zones. One zone, A, which goes from Dana Point south to the Mexican border comprises approximately 890 square miles.

In this zone it is the only zone that we have proposed restrictions on oil drilling and development. Zone B is the 3-mile limit under the State control which also includes 3 miles around various offshore islands. Zone C is basically the largest zone that we are talking about. It is a zone that we feel is worthy of consideration for its marine sanctuary uses and pluses.

Now I would like to speak very briefly from a layman's point of view to this area which we are talking about covered by zone A particularly. It is very much to the point to consider this as a marine sanctuary because of the peculiar circumstances which are ascribed to the marine bottoms, the canyons, the estuaries, et cetera, that are involved.

For this reason we have the Scripps Institute of Oceanography located there. We also have the National Marine Fisheries office in La Jolla located there. That office, by the way, we propose to be designated as the management agency for this area.

In answer to several questions brought up earlier by this committee, I would like to point out that one of the valuable things of a marine sanctuary, as we see it, is the consolidation of all the rules of the various government entities into a single management agency. We feel this is invaluable to prevent the overlapping, the stuff that you can't understand, and the inability of one agency to manage its own rules. We feel it is very important to consolidate this under a single agency.

What is bringing this proposal to a head, very frankly, is the imminent sale of tract No. 48 in June of next year. We feel it is very important the designation be made prior to this sale so that purchasers will know what we are talking about in this area.

The area we propose to exclude oil from is estimated by the Bureau of Land Management mineral resources estimate to contain only 36 hours worth of national oil and 15.2 hours worth of gas. We are not talking about vast oil and gas reserves that we are talking about in our zone A.

We are also pointing out that the present state of the art in the oil industry is not such that this particular area lends itself to any immediate development. We feel it is very important. Our miledeep canyons, et cetera, make it very uneconomical under the present state of the art for this development. So we do not feel that we are hurting in any way the national picture.

Our proposal stops short of the Cortez source, which is a major source. I do not feel sitting here that I would be looking out the window of my house, because you might wonder why a councilman from the city of Mesa would be worrying about the shoreland. My house is 13 miles inland. If that picture were to be part of our area, you could see San Clemente Island from my house 50 miles at sea. We are not talking about a small problem in our area. This is what has attracted people to the area and this is what keeps people in the area. We are not talking about stopping oil that is in production. We are not talking about preventing major production. We are talking about a sensible approach to the control of the marine environment offshore from the San Diego and Orange County areas of California.

With this I stop my rambling, gentlemen. I appreciate my testimony being included in the record. I am ready to answer any questions that you might have.

Mr. BREAUX. Thank you very much.

I understand that you also want to invite Dr. Ruth Corwin to the table. We welcome you.

[The statement follows:]

STATEMENT OF DR. RUTHANN CORWIN AND PATRICK H. HEFFERNAN, RESOURCES, CONSULTANTS IN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT POLICY, REPRESENTING SANTA BARBARA COUNTY, CALIF.

"Start with a carbon atom - it comes from some source -
we don't know much about that. But take that carbon
atom up in a kelp plant that is harvested for agar, or dies
and becomes detritus, an organic muck, which is eaten by
a worm, in turn eaten by a small fish, which is scooped up
by a pelican or turned into albacore for us, and that's a
resource. If that same bit of kelp fails to get recycled and
Is trapped in some sediments, overlain by impervious
rocks, compressed and uplifted and found and drilled Into
by us for fuel- that is also a resource. This nomination
deals with the interrelation between our biological and
chemical resources, in an effort to see that the exploita-
tion of one does not prevent the use and enjoyment of
the other.

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Background:

In his environmental message of May 23, 1977, President Carter directed the Secretary of Commerce to review areas offshore of the United States for possible Marine Sanctuary designation under the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act of 1972. Nominations for Marine Sanctuary designation may be submitted by

any interested person or organization.
of Santa Barbara County submitted the nomination of the Santa Barbara Channel area
to the Secretary of Commerce. One June 24, 1978, the County forwarded a more
complete Nomination paper and Management Information report to the National Ocean-
ographic and Atmospheric Administration, which is preparing the "white paper" on
the nomination and an impact statement for the Secretary of Commerce.

On April 3, 1978, the Board of Supervisors

The area nominated for Sanctuary status extends from the north end of Point Arguello in Santa Barbara County, to the eastern border of Point Mugu State Park in Ventura County, California. It-extends seaward to include the Santa Barbara Channel, the Channel Islands platform, and the Santa Rosa plateau. It covers approximately 3,000 square miles of the Channel waters, and a zone around the four Santa Barbara Channel Islands: San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, and the Anacapas. See accompanying map.

Purpose for Nomination Special Values of the Santa Barbara Channel:

The Act provides that areas may be nominated for protection of habitats, species, research sites, recreational or aesthetic values, or unique values. The Santa Barbara Channel Marine Sanctuary is nominated for protection of values in all of the above categories. In nominating this area, the Board of Supervisors of Santa Barbara County was mindful of the lessons learned in the establishment of the Redwood National Park in California, where the most pristine and beautiful stretch of trees given the protection of park status were threatened by exploitation in the surrounding watershed. The boundaries of the proposed Marine Sanctuary reflect this lesson by protecting the essential habitats, threatened areas, foraging grounds, and other components of the area's ecology. Multiple use of the resources within this area can be guided and regulated to avoid the kind of conflicts that were engendered by the Redwood National

Park.

The nomination area's values are summarized in Figure 2. Elements of the Channel ecosystems contained in the proposed Sanctuary include the submarine shelf and fan off Point Arguello and Point Conception, the feeding grounds of the island platform and the Santa Rosa plateau, the bottom-dwelling communities and fishing grounds of the Oxnard shelf and the Hueneme and Mugu submarine canyons, and the recreation areas and foraging waters of the central Channel.

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