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According to the U.S. Department of Energy, Indian land represents a very small percent of the United States' land base, but contains an estimated 10 percent of the Nation's energy resources. In a...

The Osage Nation is a federally recognized tribe. Its headquarters and most of its members are located on the Osage Reservation in Pawhuska, OK. The Osage Tribe Allotment Act of 1906 (Act)1 reserved...

The Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Oil and Gas Inspection and Enforcement Program (I&E Program) is responsible for ensuring the compliance of oil and gas companies operating on Federal and Indian...

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in the U.S. Department of the Interior (Department) oversees coal mining activities on Federal (public) and Indian lands. The Department collects more than $1...

We evaluated the Office of Enforcement (OE), Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR), to determine whether OE obtained timely company compliance with Federal laws and regulations, and properly...

The U.S. Geological Survey estimated in 2013, "more than 100 million people in the United States, about 35 percent of the population-received their drinking water from public groundwater systems."...

The Department of the Interior Adaptive Management Working Group sponsored the development of this applications guide to provide, through examples, a better understanding of how adaptive management...

OIG's mission is to provide independent oversight and promote excellence, integrity, and accountability within the programs, operations, and management of the U.S. Department of the Interior.Author:...

OIG accomplishes its mission by conducting audits, inspections, evaluations, and investigations relating to DOI programs and operations. Our activities are tied to major departmental responsibilities...

On May 2, 2012, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) initiated an investigation based on allegations against unnamed employees from the National Park Service (NPS) and NPS contractor Vanasse Hangen...

United States defense-related technologies and information are under attack: each day, every hour, and from multiple sources. The attack is pervasive, relentless, and unfortunately, at times...

On November 30, 2007, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden requested that the U.S. Department of the Interior's (DOI) Office of Inspector General (OIG) investigate 18 endangered species decisions undertaken by the...

The National Bridge Safety Inspection Standards (Standards) establish criteria against which the thoroughness of bridge safety inspections is measured. As the bridge inspection industry standards,...

Our audit of Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP) grants for the State of Mississippi, initiated at the request of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), found multiple deficiencies by the...

The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) has an obligation to work with its partners to address climate change and other landscape scale impacts on America's natural and cultural resources...

In accordance with the Reports Consolidation Act of 2000, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) is submitting what it has determined to be the most significant management and performance challenges...

Valley confinement is an important landscape characteristic linked to aquatic habitat, riparian diversity, and geomorphic processes. This report describes a GIS program called the Valley Confinement...

This field guide identifies seven primary components that largely determine resilience to disturbance, as well as resistance to invasive grasses and plant succession following treatment of areas of...

Practitioners are oftentimes required to predict flow resistance coefficients, such as Manning's n, in high-gradient channels (slopes > 2 %). Measurements of actual velocity and flow resistance...

As we enter a period of increased hydrocarbon extraction and lease sales in the Gulf, the minerals Management Service has established the need to reexamine and update what is known about the unique...

The National Environmental Policy Act states that "a monitoring and enforcement program shall be adopted and summarized where applicable for any mitigation." The Minerals Management Service, to...

The Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, passed by Congress in 1953 and amended extensively in 1978, provides overall guidelines for Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) leasing, exploration and development,...

The Minerals Management Service (MMS) developed a comprehensive strategy for postlease National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) compliance in deepwater areas (water depths of greater than 400 m) of...

Ultra-deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) is a relatively new activity. The challenging conditions of deep water require new technologies and new drilling products (USDOI, MMS, 2002a). As...

About 0745, on May 26, 2002, the towboat Robert Y. Love, pushing two empty asphalt tank barges, was traveling northbound on the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System, near Webbers Falls,...

Clean water is essential for ecosystem processes and for the maintenance of human populations. However, fresh water accounts for less than three percent of the world's total water volume. Numerous...

This report traces the flow of Montana's 2009 timber harvest through the primary wood-using industries; provides a description of the structure, capacity, and condition of Montana's primary forest...

This report traces the flow of Wyoming's 2010 timber harvest through the primary wood-using industries; provides a description of the structure, capacity, and condition of Wyoming's primary forest...

This report provides a daily oil and gas production rate forecast for the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) for the years 2004 through 2013. The forecast shows average daily oil and...

The environmental assessment addresses one proposed Federal action: oil and gas Lease Sale 196 in the proposed lease sale area of the Western Planning Area of the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental...