[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 921 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 921

To establish a Minerals Management Service within the Department of the 
                   Interior; and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                June 14 (legislative day, June 5), 1995

Mr. Murkowski (for himself, Mr. Brown, and Mr. Johnston) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                      Energy and Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To establish a Minerals Management Service within the Department of the 
                   Interior; and for other purposes.
    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 101. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Minerals Management Service Organic 
Act''.

SEC. 102. ESTABLISHMENT OF MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE.

    There is established in the Department of the Interior a service to 
be called the Minerals Management Service, which shall be under the 
charge of a Director who shall report to the Assistant Secretary for 
Land and Minerals Management. The Director shall be appointed by the 
President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall 
be compensated at the rate provided for level V of the executive 
schedule under section 5315 of title 5 of the United States Code. The 
Director shall be appointed on the basis of professional competence and 
capacity to administer the provisions of this title. There shall also 
be in said service such subordinate officers, clerks, and employees as 
may be appropriated for by Congress. The service thus established shall 
promote and regulate the use of lands on the Outer Continental Shelf 
for purposes of energy and mineral resources exploration, production 
and development, and shall administer a program responsible for the 
timely and accurate collection, distribution, accounting for and 
auditing of revenues owed by holders of mineral leases on Federal and 
offshore and Indian lands. The service shall administer its functions 
by such means as are reasonably necessary to carry out the purposes of 
this Act, the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (43 U.S.C. 1301 et 
seq.), the Mineral Leasing Act (30 U.S.C. 181-287), and the Federal Oil 
and Gas Royalty Management Act (30 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), and all other 
applicable Federal laws.
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