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Minerals Management Service - Outer Continental Shelf Minerals Regulation and Compliance

The program regulates mineral operations on the nation's Outer Continental Shelf. The program ensures that operations are conducted in a safe and clean manner and without unreasonable impact to the ocean.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Effective

This is the highest rating a program can achieve. Programs rated Effective set ambitious goals, achieve results, are well-managed and improve efficiency.
  • The program is well managed and effectively balances the need for access to mineral resources with environmental protection goals. The Bureau uses both regulatory and non-regulatory means to minimize risk to the public and the environment and to avoid uncompensated resource loss.
  • The program has annual and long term performance measures that reflect the goals of the program, and the measures indicate that the program generally achieves its goals. The measures address safety to platform crews, revenue collection and environmental effects of operations on water and marine life.
  • The program does not have regular independent evaluations of its performance to inform program improvements. Such reviews could provide correlation or additional information on how the program might perform even better.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

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

  • Exploring regulatory options to improve safety and environmental management systems.
  • Focusing regulatory efforts on operators that have a history of problems and violations.
  • Expanding program evaluation through regular independent reviews.

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