Senate Bill 0166

    Florida Senate - 2000        (NP)                       SM 166

    By Senator Saunders





    25-87-00                                             See HM 59

  1                     Senate Memorial No.     

  2         A memorial to the Congress of the United

  3         States, urging Congress to pass House

  4         Resolution 33 relating to the leasing under the

  5         Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act of lands off

  6         the coast of Florida.

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  8         WHEREAS, during the first session of the 106th

  9  Congress, Representative Porter Goss and 11 other

10  Representatives introduced House Resolution 33, which would

11  condition the preleasing, leasing, exploration and

12  development, and production of oil and gas from the outer

13  continental shelf off Florida on the performance of certain

14  scientific and environmental assessments, studies, and

15  research, and

16         WHEREAS, this legislation would establish a Joint

17  Federal-State Continental Shelf Task Force to provide for,

18  supervise, and review such assessments, studies, and research,

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20         WHEREAS, adequate scientific and environmental analysis

21  is necessary prior to any such preleasing, leasing,

22  exploration, production, or drilling for oil or gas, in order

23  to provide the protection needed for the conservation of

24  Florida's natural resources and to minimize the uncertainty

25  regarding the effects of such activities on the state's

26  coastal environment and citizens, NOW, THEREFORE,

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28  Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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30         That the Congress of the United States is respectfully

31  requested to pass House Resolution 33 by Representative Porter

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    Florida Senate - 2000        (NP)                       SM 166
    25-87-00                                             See HM 59




  1  Goss and others, which imposes restrictions and requirements

  2  on the leasing of lands off Florida's coast under the Outer

  3  Continental Shelf Lands Act, to ensure the protection of the

  4  marine, coastal, and human environments of the State of

  5  Florida.

  6         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be

  7  sent to the President of the United States, to the President

  8  of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the United

  9  States House of Representatives, and to each member of the

10  Florida delegation to the United States Congress.

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