Senate Bill 0798

    Florida Senate - 2000        (NP)                       SR 798

    By Senator Saunders





    25-638-00

  1                    Senate Resolution No.     

  2         A resolution urging the Congress of the United

  3         States to pass House Resolution 33 relating to

  4         the leasing under the Outer Continental Shelf

  5         Lands Act of lands off the coast of Florida.

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  7         WHEREAS, during the first session of the 106th

  8  Congress, Representative Porter Goss and 11 other

  9  Representatives introduced House Resolution 33, which would

10  condition the preleasing, leasing, exploration and

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

12  continental shelf off Florida on the performance of certain

13  scientific and environmental assessments, studies, and

14  research, and

15         WHEREAS, this legislation would establish a Joint

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

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

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19         WHEREAS, adequate scientific and environmental analysis

20  is necessary prior to any such preleasing, leasing,

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

22  to provide the protection needed for the conservation of

23  Florida's natural resources and to minimize the uncertainty

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

25  coastal environment and citizens, NOW, THEREFORE,

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27  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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29         That the Congress of the United States is respectfully

30  requested to pass House Resolution 33 by Representative Porter

31  Goss and others, which imposes restrictions and requirements

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    Florida Senate - 2000        (NP)                       SR 798
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  1  on the leasing of lands off Florida's coast under the Outer

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

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

  4  Florida.

  5         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution

  6  be sent to the President of the United States, to the

  7  President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the

  8  United States House of Representatives, and to each member of

  9  the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.

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