"Proposed OCS Sale No. 68 includes a maximum offering of 218 tracts, with a total area of about 450,415 hectares (1,112,975 acres). The tracts are offshore Southern California, between 3 and 84 geographic miles offshore and in water depths from about 46 to 1500 m (150 to 4,900 feet). Tracts comprise three subareas: the Santa Barbara Channel; Inner Banks (containing the Anacapa Island area, Santa Monica Basin and the San Pedro area); Outer Banks (containing the area south of Santa Rosa Island, San Nicolas Basin, Dall Bank, southeast Tanner Bank and Santa Tomas Knoll)"--Page i, v. 1.