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Second Subpoena Issued to Interior Dept for Investigation into New Obama Coal Regulations that Could Cost Thousands of Jobs

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Tags: Energy and Mineral Resources, Energy, Full Committee, Oversight, Minerals, Oversight: Stream Buffer Zone Rule

House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today issued a second subpoena to the Department of the Interior (DOI) for additional information relating to the investigation into the Obama Administration’s rewrite of the Stream Buffer Zone Rule (Rule) that began over a year ago. The second subpoena follows after DOI has failed to comply with the April 5th subpoena for…

Chairman Hastings Memorandum Providing Notice to Committee Members that a Subpoena was Issued to the Department of the Interior

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Tags: Full Committee, Oversight, Oversight: Stream Buffer Zone Rule

TO:                   Members, Committee on Natural Resources FROM:             Doc Hastings, Chairman RE:                   Subpoena issued I hereby give notice that I have issued a subpoena duces tecum (for documents) to the…

Chairman Hastings Letter to Secretary Salazar on Failure to Provide Stream Buffer Zone Rule Rewrite Documents

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Tags: Full Committee, Oversight, Oversight: Stream Buffer Zone Rule

Dear Mr. Secretary: On April 5, 2012, a subpoena was issued and served on you, as Secretary of the Interior, for a complete and unredacted copy of specific documents, communications, and information related to the rewrite of the 2008 Stream Buffer Zone Rule by the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, (“Subpoena”). The Department’s April 12 and April 27, 2012 responses…

Chairman Hastings: Documents Raise Serious Questions about Thoroughness and Independence of Inspector General's Investigation into Drilling Moratorium Report

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Tags: Energy and Mineral Resources, Energy, Oversight: Obama's Offshore Moratorium, Deepwater Horizon Spill, Full Committee, Oversight, Offshore Drilling, Oversight: Interior Inspector General

House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today sent a letter to Department of the Interior’s Acting Inspector General Mary Kendall expressing deep concern with the thoroughness of the Office of Inspector General’s (IG) investigation into whether an Obama Administration report that recommended a six-month drilling moratorium was intentionally edited to incorrectly…

Chairman Hastings Letter to Acting Inspector General Mary Kendall Regarding Drilling Moratorium Documents and Committee's Investigation

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Tags: Energy and Mineral Resources, Energy, Oversight: Obama's Offshore Moratorium, Full Committee, Oversight, Oversight: Interior Inspector General

Dear Ms. Kendall: Thank you for meeting with me recently to discuss your response to the April 12, 2012 subpoena for documents related to the Office of Inspector General's ("IG") investigation into the May 27, 2010 Department of the Interior ("Department") report entitled, "Increased Safety Measures for Energy Development on the Outer Continental Shelf' ("Drilling Moratorium…