Word: interior
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...over--and into--the Grand Canyon may fall under the jurisdiction of the Federal Aviation Administration and therefore not necessarily in Marks' bailiwick. This June the Park Service will release a report assessing the environmental damage of the flights and outlining possible solutions; by September Marks must recommend to Interior Secretary Donald Hodel a plan to resolve the problem. The Secretary's decision is certain to serve as a guide for other national parks, particularly Haleakala and Hawaii Volcanoes national parks in Hawaii, which are contending with increasingly heavy air traffic...
Best of all, however, is the marvelous set designed by Gino Lee, who has taken the drab setting of prison granite and turned it into a three-dimensional playhouse. Like a giant pop-up book, the Tower courtyard springs from the stage and folds out to provide interior scenes. Costumes are generally adequate and occasionally impressive, but snatches of synthetic fabric detract from the Elizabethan feel, and several chorus members seem garbed in get-ups on loan from neighboring centuries...
...such counterterror tactics conflict sharply with what one Italian airport official calls the "commercial philosophy" of Western airlines. Says an Interior Ministry official in Rome: "A commercial airport is asked to give tourists a pleasant, welcoming image. Is this consonant with stripping passengers, body checks and shaking out their clothes?" Such inconveniences on the ground may be the price that travelers pay for peace of mind...
While some of these concerns may be valid, Interior Department officials argue that as older oil fields elsewhere in the U.S. approach the end of their productive years, new supplies must be developed. The Government estimates that the U.S. will have to find 32 billion bbl. of new oil reserves by 1995 to maintain domestic production at the current level of 9 million bbl. a day, and to keep from becoming more dependent upon imports, which now account for 27% of U.S. consumption. Half of those new supplies are expected to come from offshore wells. Says Hodel: "The federal offshore...
...companies have a more immediate incentive to pursue those offshore tracts. Since lease rates rise and fall with oil prices, the Interior Department sale is expected to offer some tempting bargains. Five years ago, for instance, when oil prices were riding high, the average price paid for tracts in the Santa Maria Basin was $6,387.82 per acre. But if petroleum prices stay at their current depressed levels, the new oil leases could go for much less...