A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "U.S. consumption of oil and natural gas increasingly outpaces domestic production, a gap that is expected to grow rapidly over the next 20 years. There has been increasing concern about U.S. reliance on foreign energy sources. One option being considered is to increase domestic production of resources on land under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and Minerals Management Service (MMS) and the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service. GAO determined (1) the stages when …
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A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "U.S. consumption of oil and natural gas increasingly outpaces domestic production, a gap that is expected to grow rapidly over the next 20 years. There has been increasing concern about U.S. reliance on foreign energy sources. One option being considered is to increase domestic production of resources on land under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and Minerals Management Service (MMS) and the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service. GAO determined (1) the stages when agency decisions about oil and gas development can be challenged by the public, (2) the extent to which BLM gathers and uses public challenge data to manage its oil and gas program, and (3) for fiscal years 1999-2003, the number of MMS offshore development decisions that were challenged."
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United States. Government Accountability Office.Oil and Gas Development: Challenges to Agency Decisions and Opportunities for BLM to Standardize Data Collection,
report,
November 30, 2004;
Washington D.C..
(https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc301489/:
accessed July 18, 2026),
University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu;
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