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Chairman Hastings and Ranking Member Murkowski Letter to Acting Administrator Gruenspecht Calling on the Energy Information Agency to Clarify and Re-Release Federal Energy Production Data

Dear Acting Administrator Gruenspecht:

On Thursday, January 26, the Energy Information Administration (EIA) recalled its latest available data for oil and gas production on federal lands (Table 1.14 of the Annual Energy Review 2010). According to the agency's announcement, this was necessary because the data "were incorrectly extracted from another agency's data." We write to you today, more than one month later, to express concern with the length of time it has already taken EIA to fix this apparent error and to request that you make the revision of this data your agency's highest priority

Read the entire letter HERE.