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First federal oil lease sale opens

NEW YORK U'- The feder-
al government's first oil lease
sale for the Atlantic Ocean op-
ened yesterdav, more than eight
hours late, after U. S. Supreme
Court Justice Thurgood Mar-
shall refused to block the sale.
The sale was delayed from
10 a.m. to after 6 p.m. while
attorneys for New York State
and environmentalists argued
against it before Marshall in
Washington.
THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS
sought a detailed study of the
effects of the drilling off the
Mid-Atlantic coast from Long
tsland, N.Y., to Virginia.

As the arguments went on,
sundreds of oil company exec-
'itives milled about a hotel ball-
room in New York, waiting for
the sale to begin.
"The biggest cost of these
delays is to the public," Exxon
Corp. spokesman J. R. Jack-
san said of the wait. "Every day
we delay, we lose a certain
fraction of production that we
can't make up - and we add a
fraction to imports."
IN THIS RULING, Justice
Marshall said only that the Sec-
ond U. S. Circuit Court of Ap-
peals had acted properly Mon-
day in deciding to lift a lower

court's ban on the sale. He said
he would issue a written opin-
ion later.
Last week, U. S. District
Judge Jack Weinstein barred
the sale, saying environmental
interests should have been con-
sulted more fully. The appeals
court then overturned his deci-
sion.
The Supreme Court is in re-
cess, but Marshall has jurisdic-
tion over the Second Circuit
Court District.
INTERIOR Department offic-
ials said the case was the first
on offshore oil lease sales to
reach the high court. Previous

efforts to block lease sales off
Louisiana, California and in
the Gulf of Alaska all failed.
Earlier in the day, the oil
companies had submitted sealed
bids thought to run into hun-
dreds of millions of dollars for
the right to search for oil in an
876,750-acre area 45 to 90 miles
off Long Island, New Jersey,
Delaware, Maryland and Vir-
ginia.
The Interior Department esti-
mates the area holds a poten-
tial 400 million to 1.4 billion bar-
rels of oil, but no one will know
for sure until drilling starts.
SINCE 1954, federal offshore

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lease sales have resulted in
more than 13,000 wells that have
pumped oil and gas worth more
than $23.2 billion.
The highest single bid for any
lease sale was one for $211.99
million offered three years ago
for a tract in the Gulf of Mexi-
co. The record total for bids
came in 1974, when a sale of
tracts off Louisiana brought
$209 billion.
The high bidders on each tract
in a sale win the right to search
for and produce oil and gas.
Leases not developed in five
years are forfeited.
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