Stay Connected  MMS, BLM must clarify lease policies, acting IG
says  Federal oil and gas leasing programs could do more to
encourage leaseholders to move more aggressively toward
production, the US Department of the Interior’s acting inspector
general told a congressional subcommittee on Mar. 17.Mary L.
Kendall told the House Natural Resources Committee’s Energy and
Minerals subcommittee that DOI’s IG office recently completed an
evaluation of nonproducing federal oil and gas leases for US
Rep. Norman D. Dicks (D-Wash.), who chairs the House
Appropriations Committee’s Interior and Environment
subcommittee.“In addition to some very challenging data
integrity and lease oversight issues, we found that the [US]
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