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- The Minerals Management Service (MMS) of the U.S. Department of the Interior,
is the federal agency that manages the nation's natural gas, oil and other
mineral resources on the outer continental shelf (OCS).
The agency also collects, accounts for and disburses more than $5 billion per
year in revenues from federal offshore mineral leases and from onshore mineral
leases on federal and Indian lands. The program is national in scope and
headquartered in Washington, D.C. It includes two major programs, Offshore
Minerals Management and Minerals Revenue Management.
The Offshore program, which manages the mineral resources on the OCS, comprises
three regions: Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, and the Pacific. The Minerals Revenue
program is headquartered in Washington, D.C., but operationally based in
Denver, Colorado.
Website: http://www.gomr.mms.gov/index.html
[Summary provided by the U.S. Department of the Interior.]
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