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there would be no more lease sales in front of the oil sanctuary in the santa Barbara channel. But I'm trying to make that if a ship ran into a platform and caused a great pollution problem, we don't we don't say well it's a ship's problem. We

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make the oil company absolutely liable for that clean up. Whether it's their fault or not, then they would have recourse against what caused the problem to happen. Okay. The problem we have there is now that that they had to blow out the upper sands where the

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shallow oil sands are there now pressurized and as the do bridge panel pointed out, there has to be some way to relieve that pressure. Unlike the situation before the blowout. And so what we're doing with those leases such as the Union lisa blew out is authorized

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the drilling in there to extract that oil in the upper sands and the lower sands to prohibit from what happened from happening again and to stop the natural leaks that were there before. Mr Secretary, do you agree with dR do bridge that? We are not the

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federal government is not able to cope with a major spill if it should happen right now, there's technology being worked on in that direction. There is no real ah I'm trying to use the right word, expert way to handle a pollution on water. We have vacuum

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methods, we have separating methods, we have the log boom method, I think the biggest thing that we have done and one of the only things we could do within our jurisdiction, we have made the oil companies absolute liable for the cleanup of any pollution, regardless of

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whether it's their fault or not.