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Item Analysis of the Feasibility of Separating Exploration from Production of Oil and Gas on the Outer Continental Shelf(United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment, 1975-05) United States Congress Office of Technology AssessmentPresent lease practice links exploration with development and production by successful bidder. A specific question arising out of both National and State concerns about OCS management, and being addressed by the Congress, is whether the national interest would be better served by separating OCS exploration from development and production, and if so, by what means this would be best accomplished. At the request of teh Committee on Commerce and the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the U.S. Senate, the Office of Technology Assessment has analyzed the feasibility of separating exploration from production of oil and gas on the OCS and analyzed the consequences likely to occur. This report contains the results of that analysis.Item Issues and Options in Flood Hazards Management - PRELIMINARY DRAFT(United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment, 1978-06) United States Congress Office of Technology AssessmentCongressman Thomas L. Ashley, Chairman of the House Committee on Banking and Urban Affairs and Senator William Proxmire, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs and of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, have requested that OTA undertake a study in the area of natural hazards. Considering the complexity and scope of such an undertaking, a preliminary analysis has been begun to define what issues are or should be of concern to Congress and where further study could be useful to the Congress. In pursuit of that preliminary analysis, three workshops were held. One, the subject of this paper, dealt with issues and options in flood hazards management and flood insurance. A second workshop dealt with criteria for evaluating the President's anticipated reorganization of federal emergency preparedness and response. A third workshop was concerned with criteria for evaluating the implementation plan required in the Earthquake Hazards Reduction Act of 1977 (P.L. 95-124). Each workshop has carried the preliminary analysis a long way toward a detailed understanding of underlying issues and trends relating to natural hazards. A second purpose in these topical workshops was to produce reports which would be of direct and immediate value to the committees of the Congress.