Federal land access issues threaten activity
The federal government, largest landowner in the U.S., in the past decade has been increasingly unwilling to lease its lands for oil and gas exploration. Congress has restricted the acreage available for onshore exploration by identifying thousands of acres in the West for possible designation as wilderness. On the outer continental shelf, for the past 9 years legislators have denied the Interior Department funds to plan lease sales in certain areas. The Minerals Management Service, responding to political pressures, has removed 655 million acres from lease sale consideration and delayed many of the sales in the current 5 years leasing program. Meanwhile, some congressmen are pushing bills that would give coastal states some control over OCS leasing and that would ban drilling in areas off all but five of the coastal states.
- OSTI ID:
- 6754179
- Journal Information:
- Oil and Gas Journal; (USA), Journal Name: Oil and Gas Journal; (USA) Vol. 88:23; ISSN OIGJA; ISSN 0030-1388
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Similar Records
H. R. 759: This Act may be cited as the Arctic Coastal Plain Domestic Energy Leasing Act of 1991, introduced in the House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, January 30, 1991
S. 2439: a bill to amend the Act of February 25, 1920, to provide for competitive leasing of oil and gas for onshore Federal lands, and for other purposes. Introduced in the Senate of the United States, Ninety-Ninth Congress, Second Session, May 13 1986
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