  We present the preliminary results of a survey for OH megamasers underway at
the Arecibo Observatory. The goals of the survey are to calibrate the
luminosity function of OH megamasers to the low-redshift galaxy merger rate
(0.1 < z < 0.2), and to use the enhanced sample of OH megamasers provided by
the survey to study OH megamaser environments, engines, lifetimes, and
structure. The survey should double the known OH megamaser sample to roughly
100 objects. Survey results will be presented in installments to facilitate
community access to the data. Here we report the discovery of 11 OH megamasers
and one OH absorber, and include upper limits on the isotropic 1667 MHz OH line
luminosity of 53 other luminous infrared galaxies at z > 0.1. The new
megamasers show a wide range of spectral properties, but are consistent with
the extant set of 55 previously reported objects, only 8 of which have z > 0.1.
