Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI):  ExxonMobil's Proposal to Repair the C1 Power Cable: Lease OCS-P 0182, Santa Ynez Unit, Santa Barbara Channel, Offshore Santa Barbara County

The MMS prepared the attached Environmental Assessment for ExxonMobil's project, "Proposal to Repair the C1 Power Cable." In this analysis, MMS determined that the following environmental resources potentially could be affected by the proposed project: air quality, water quality, benthic resources, commercial fishing, cultural resources, and environmental justice. The MMS concluded that potential impacts on all resources that could be affected during the C1 cable repair project will be insignificant based on significance criteria utilized in the analyses and that the incremental increase of the proposed action to cumulative impacts is negligible for all resources.

• Advancing Marine Biotechnology: Use of OCS Oil Platforms as Sustainable Sources of Marine Natural Products  1406 kb

• Male-specific AFLP Markers Reveal Extreme Female-biased Sex-ratios in the Surfgrass Phyllospadix torreyi (Zosteraceae) 244 kb

• Biodegradation in the Subsurface as a Selective Filter for Natural Petroleum Emissions 1.75 mb

• Trophic Links and Condition of a Temperate Reef Fish: Comparisons among Offshore Oil Platforms and Natural Reef Habitats 281 kb

• Spatial and Temporal Variation in Recruitment to Rocky Shores: Relationship to Recovery Rates of Intertidal Communities 732 kb

• Reducing Duplicative Efforts in Oil Spill Contingency Planning

• Joint Agency Coordination to Ensure Safety and Protection of the Environment Through Pipeline Inspection

• Physical and Chemical Characteristics of the Platform Gina Shell Mound 7.9 mb

• Platform ecology studies funded by the Minerals Management Service's Environmental Studies Program:  An annotated bibliography.

• Pinnipeds of Southern California

• Pinnipeds and Sea Otters in Southern California

• Possible Effects of Oil and Gas Activities on the California Sea Otter

• Endangered Whales in the Southern California Area

• Possible Effects of Oil and Gas Activities on the California Gray Whales

• Biological Communities Near Natural Oil and Gas Seeps

• UCSB News Release: Study Reveals an Oily Diet for Subsurface Life

• Federal Agencies Join States to Launch Governors’ West Coast Ocean Action Plan

• MMS Supports Inaugural Clean Pacific Conference
• MMS Named Pioneer in Energy Education
• MMS Gives Key Support to Workshop on Ecological Effects of Wave Energy Development in the Pacific Northwest
• MMS Sponsors International Energy Ocean '07 Conference
• MMS to Hold Public Hearings in San Francisco
• MMS to Hold Public Hearings in Oregon
• California Allocated $7.4 million Under Coastal Impact Assistance Program: $4.8 million to State and $2.6 million to 17 Counties in FY 2007 & 2008 Allocations
• MMS Recognizes Companies for Safety Excellence on America's Outer Continental Shelf

• Natural Oil and Gas Seeps in the Coastal Areas of Southern California

• Marine Hydrocarbon Seeps at Coal Oil Point in the Santa Barbara Channel. This paper was published in the Geological Society of America's journal, Geology, November 1999, vol. 27, p. 1047-1050. Copyright (c) 1999, The Geological Society of America, Inc. (GSA). All rights reserved.  Used with permission.