Richard Nixon actually said...

I have directed the Secretary of the Interior to continue to accelerate the leasing of Outer Continental Shelf lands for oil and gas production to a level triple the present annual acreage rate by 1979, as long as such development can proceed with adequate protection of the environment and under conditions consistent with my Oceans Policy statement of May 1970.

Context

Message to the Congress Transmitting Annual Report on the Federal Ocean Program.

09/27/1973

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