This research specifically addresses a Minerals Management Service (MMS) "Special Task Area" and also responds to urgent informational needs of the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Coast Guard, NOAA's National Marine Fisheries Service (NOAA NMFS), and northern Gulf of Mexico state natural resource agencies. We conducted an extensive literature search and compiled an indexed, annotated bibliography on the toxicity of intake chlorinated waters and their disinfection byproducts associated with proposed offshore, open-loop (flow-through), Liquefied Natural Gasification (LNG) terminals and the potential environmental consequences that will result when these substances are discharged into the marine environment.