Senate Bill sb0860

    Florida Senate - 2001        (NP)                       SR 860

    By Senator Saunders





    25-734A-01

  1                    Senate Resolution No. ____

  2         A resolution urging the Congress of the United

  3         States to pass House Resolution 273 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 107th

  8  Congress, Representative Porter Goss introduced House

  9  Resolution 273, which would condition the preleasing, leasing,

10  exploration and development, and production of oil and gas

11  from the outer continental shelf off Florida on the

12  performance of certain scientific and environmental

13  assessments, studies, and research, and

14         WHEREAS, this legislation would establish a Joint

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

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

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18         WHEREAS, adequate scientific and environmental analysis

19  is necessary prior to any such preleasing, leasing,

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

21  to provide the protection needed for the conservation of

22  Florida's natural resources and to minimize the uncertainty

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

24  coastal environment and citizens, NOW, THEREFORE,

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

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28         That the Congress of the United States is respectfully

29  requested to pass House Resolution 273 by Representative

30  Porter Goss, which imposes restrictions and requirements on

31  the leasing of lands off Florida's coast under the Outer

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    Florida Senate - 2001        (NP)                       SR 860
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  1  Continental Shelf Lands Act to ensure the protection of the

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

  3  Florida.

  4         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution,

  5  with the seal of the Senate affixed, be sent to the President

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

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

  8  Representatives, and to each member of the Florida delegation

  9  to the United States Congress.

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