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Many people believe that the outer continental shelf, particularly offshore New Jersey, contains recoverable quantities of oil and gas. I am not unmindful of the need to develop new domestic sources of energy, because New Jersey is heavily dependent on imported oil and has suffered severe consequences as a result. But New Jersey will not sit by silently as the federal bureaucracy rushes headlong into a program that will benefit the oil companies at the expense of a state's priceless Atlantic coastal beaches and tourist industry...
Because of our proximity to the Georges Bank oil and gas leasing tracts, Massachusetts has a deep interest in the exploration and development of the Outer Continental Shelf [March...
...states and the Federal Government must fashion a coherent national energy program that addresses these problems. We must develop the Outer Continental Shelf in an orderly fashion. Exploration must be separated from leasing and development. It should begin promptly, and it should involve both state and federal governments...
...exploration period will permit states to complete their coastal zone management plans so that Outer Continental Shelf resources can be developed without serious disruption of social and environmental goals...
...with an estimated destructive capability of 100 to 1,000 tons of TNT. The student (portrayed by Actor John Holecek) describes the ease with which he mastered basic bomb making, sketching the structure of his bomb in a childlike doodle of two circles and a dot: "You explode the outer ring of TNT which squeezes the tamper which compresses the plutonium core, and boom." Could a similarly self-taught terrorist steal (or, as the experts on the program delicately put it, "divert") the needed plutonium...