Product Description: Few scientific data have been collected on pre-dam conditions of the Colorado River corridor through Grand Canyon National Park. Using historical diaries, interviews with pre-dam river runners (referred to as the “Old Timers”), and historical scientific data and observations, we compiled anecdotal information on environmental change in Grand Canyon...read more

Product Description: Under the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA), as amended, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI/USDOI) is required to manage the leasing, exploration, development, and production of oil and gas resources on the Federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)...read more

Product Description: The U.S. Department of the Interior, Mineral Management Service has prepared an environmental assessment for proposed Lease Sale 207 in the Western Planning area of the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf to determine whether MMS can make a Finding of No New Significant Impact or should prepare a supplemental environmental impact statement...read more

Product Description: This environmental assessment (EA) addresses one proposed Federal action: oil and gas Lease Sale 206 in the proposed lease sale area of the Central Planning Area (CPA) of the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) as scheduled in the Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program 2007-2012 (5-Year Program) (USDOI, MMS, 2007b)...read more

Product Description: An accident that resulted in one fatality and a brief loss of well control occurred on Forest Oil Corporation’s (FOC) Platform B, High Island Block A-466, Well B-11, Lease OCS-G 03242 in the Gulf of Mexico, offshore the State of Texas, on February 20, 2006, at approximately 0820 hours...read more

Product Description: Lease OCS-G 5694 covers approximately 5,000 acres and is located in Main Pass Block 98 (MP- 98 or the Lease), Gulf of Mexico, off the Louisiana Coast (for lease location, see figure 1). The Lease was originally purchased and operated by Corpus Christi Exploration on behalf of several partners...read more

Product Description: This is the seventh publication that the minerals Management Service has released chronicling the levels of deepwater exploration, development, and production activities in the Gulf of Mexico.

Product Description: The Telework Handbook supplements the requirements prescribed by 370 DM 226 and establishes Department-wide policies and procedures for the proper implementation of all Federal laws, Executive Orders, regulations and policies related to telework...read more

Product Description: This resource guide is designed to aid students and teachers in researching Alaska’s World War II history. Alaska’s role as battlefield, lend-lease transfer station, and North Pacific stronghold was often overlooked by historians in the post-war decades, but in recent years awareness has been growing of Alaska’s wartime past...read more

Product Description: This document summarizes a Microsoft Excel based economic projection model developed as part of a series of investigations analyzing the social and economic impact of the Coastal Alabama offshore gas industry of Gulf Coast states...read more

Product Description: During routine drilling operations on the MODU Marine 700, the riser cart/carriage assembly moved forward, pinning a drilling floorhand between the riser cart/carriage assembly and the iron roughneck on the drillfloor. The floorhand received fatal injuries as a result of this accident...read more

Product Description: Lease OCS-G 21810 covers approximately 5,760 acres and is located in Green Canyon Block 652 (GC 652), Gulf of Mexico, off the Louisiana Coast. For lease location, see Attachment 1. The lease was issued effective June 1, 2000. Anadarko Petroleum Corporation is a 100-percent interest leaseholder and the Designated Operator...read more

Since the first major deepwater leasing boom in 1995-1996, we have entered into a sustained, robust expansion of activity. As of March 2005, there were 111 deepwater hydrocarbon production projects on line. Production from deepwater grew to an estimated 922 thousand barrels of oil per day and 3.9 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day by the end of 2004. This was a meteoric rise of 510 percent and 680 percent for oil and gas, respectively, since 1995. The increase would have been even greater if not for shut-in production caused by Hurricane Ivan.

Product Description: The memorandum transmits the KPMG LL's auditors' report of the Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians financial statements for fiscal years 2011 and 2010. The OST financial reports contain financial statements and notes for Tribal and Other Trust Funds and Individual Indian Monies Trust Funds...read more

Product Description: The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) conducts allleasing and resource management functions on the Outer Continental Shelf. The MMS sponsorsscientific research to effectively manage and protect the environment...read more