The NewsRoom
Release: #3903
Date: October 7, 2008
MMS Regional Office to
Stay in New Orleans
Sustaining Commitment to Offshore Energy Development
NEW ORLEANS – The Minerals Management
Service (MMS) announced today it is extending its commitment to the
Gulf Coast region. The General Services Administration has signed a
15-year lease to keep the MMS Gulf of Mexico Regional Office in the
New Orleans area.
“This office is
responsible for the day-to-day oversight of energy development in
the Federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico. This lease extension
demonstrates our commitment to our employees in the New Orleans area
and once again underscores the importance of the Gulf of Mexico to
the energy security and reliability to our Nation,” said the
agency’s director Randall Luthi.
The building houses more than 600 MMS employees
and contractors. It sustained extensive damage during Hurricane
Katrina, reopened in October of 2005, and resumed full operations in
early 2006. It sustained only minor damage during Hurricane Gustav.
The new lease will include additional updates to the building.
The lease terms
include improved access to the public information and adjudication
offices with a new public elevator; a state of the art visualization
room with 3-D capabilities for MMS geoscientists and engineers to
interpret data; complete renovations of five of the six floors; and
the restructuring of the first floor lobby to provide greater
security.
The MMS Gulf of Mexico Regional Office has been
located in the New Orleans metropolitan area since the agency was
created in 1982, and has been housed at the Elmwood Towers building
since 1986.
Contact:
Caryl Fagot
504-736-2590
Eileen Angelico
504-736-2595
MMS: Securing Ocean Energy & Economic Value for America
U.S. Department of the Interior
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10/07/2008,
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