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Bureau of Land Management - Energy and Minerals Management

This program is responsible for providing access to and managing the environmentally responsible exploration and development of certain minerals (such as coal, oil, gas, sand, and gravel) on bureau-managed public lands and for certain other areas where the subsurface minerals are Federally-owned.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The program had lacked good long-term performance goals in some areas but has begun to fill its performance measure gaps. New performance measures have been developed for some program components, including an efficiency measure for oil and gas permitting.
  • The bureau does not adequately charge users for the costs of permitting energy and minerals activities. As a result, the burden of permitting these activities is disproportionately transferred to the general taxpaying public. It also results in less flexibility to meet changing industry demand because agency resources rely on the lengthy budget and appropriations process.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Implementing new user fees for some activities and working with Congress to reinstitute the bureau's authority to recover its costs for oil and gas permitting activities.
  • Continuing to implement new performance measures.
  • Working to identify additional performance measures for other components of the program, including coal and mineral materials activities.

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