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Dear Mr. Chairman, This letter responds to your letters dated January 25 and January 31, 2012, requesting additional information regarding the manner in which the scope of peer review was described in the Executive Summary of the Department of the Interior's (Department's) 2010 report entitled "Increased Safety Measures for Energy Development on the Outer Continental Shelf" (ISM Report).… Read more »

Dear Mr. Chairman, With this letter we are continuing our response to the Committee's general oversight inquiry into the Department of the Interior's ("Department' s") ongoing Stream Protection Rulemaking and to the specific requests made in the Committee's January 25, 2012, letter. This letter provides the Committee documents, information and offers of accommodation responsive to those… Read more »

Dear Secretary Salazar: It is our understanding that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is currently drafting regulations governing the production of oil and natural gas on Federal lands, including lands managed for the benefit of Indian tribes and their members. We further understand that as part of this regulatory process, the BLM is currently undergoing formal tribal consultations on… Read more »

Spearheaded by Natural Resources Committee Members Bill Flores (TX-17) and Rob Wittman (VA-01), 182 Members today sent a bipartisan letter to Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar requesting new, expanded access to offshore energy production in order to create new American jobs, reduce our reliance on foreign energy and generate new revenue. Last November, the Obama… Read more »

The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power held an oversight hearing today on “Water for Our Future and Job Creation: Examining Regulatory and Bureaucratic Barriers to New Surface Storage Infrastructure.” The hearing highlighted the regulatory burdens that hinder vital water storage improvement projects that help create jobs, increase agriculture production, generate… Read more »

Dear Mr. Secretary: With the release of the Proposed Outer Continental Shelf Plan for 2012-2017, we write to express strong bipartisan support in the House for the consideration of new and expanded access to the OCS for the production of oil and natural gas. Opening up new areas of the OCS will bring new jobs, new energy, and new revenues to the Treasury all at a time where each of… Read more »

The Obama Administration’s Interior Department is one step closer to imposing new federal regulations on hydraulic fracturing on federal lands—a long standing drilling technique that is necessary to extract oil and natural gas from shale reservoirs. A draft copy of the new regulations, reported last Thursday by Politico, show that the Obama Administration is preparing to add significant… Read more »