Department of the Interior

Departmental Manual

 

Effective Date:  8/8/05

Series:  Organization

Part 118:  Minerals Management Service

Chapter 7:  Minerals Revenue Management

 

Originating Office:  Minerals Management Service

118 DM 7

 

7.1     Associate Director for Minerals Revenue Management (MRM).  The Associate Director (AD) provides management, policy, and direction for all MRM processes to ensure the efficient, timely, and accurate collection and disbursement of mineral leasing revenue due to Indian Tribes and allottees, States, and the U.S. Treasury.  To accomplish this mission, MRM is designed around three business lines:  Financial Management, Compliance and Asset Management, and Royalty in Kind.  The business line organizations receive assistance from program support staff reporting to the AD and the Deputy Associate Director (DAD).  (See attached organization chart.)

 

7.2     Financial Management (FM).  The FM organization is responsible for the financial process which includes:  receiving revenues and related information; performing edits and other automated quality reviews; ensuring that the revenues received with correct information are made available promptly to the proper recipients within the shortest possible time; and ensuring that information describing the revenues is provided timely to recipients.  The FM manages a reference data function, a reporting function, and an efficient state-of-the-art financial system to accomplish its mission.

 

7.3     Compliance and Asset Management (CAM).  The CAM organization is responsible for the compliance asset management business process for all producing offshore and onshore properties including Indian and Federal oil, gas, solid mineral, and geothermal leases.  These functions include:  assuring proper royalties have been paid; assuring consistent compliance with lease terms, regulations, and laws; and making recommendations on royalty asset decisions.  The CAM works in partnership with Tribal and State governments to identify effective and efficient methods and policies for getting royalties and related revenues billed and resolved in a shortened compliance time cycle.  The CAM applies fiduciary trust principles on Indian leases and public trust on Federal offshore and onshore leases.

 

7.4     Royalty in Kind (RIK).  The RIK organization is responsible for administering the MRM’s RIK program, including economic analysis, marketing, sales, contracting, credit management, accounting, and reporting on all aspects of this major mineral revenue management program.  Primary program components include the small refiner program, Strategic Petroleum Reserve fill initiative, commercial natural gas and crude oil sales activities, and cooperative energy commodity sales programs with several States.  The RIK organization is the operational point of accountability and responsibility for RIK matters within MRM.

 

7.5     Program Support Staff.  The Program Support Staff provides advisory and coordination assistance to the AD, the DAD, and other MRM managers.  The staff develops strategic plans and budgets, coordinates all enforcement processes, ensures continuous improvement in MRM processes, provides a full range of IT services, serves as the primary source of minerals revenue information, and manages major projects and initiatives.

 

7.6     Location.  The MRM is headquartered in Washington, DC, and has offices in Lakewood, Colorado; Tulsa and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; and Houston and Dallas, Texas.

 

8/8/05 #3680

Replaces 9/18/00 #3315