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Minerals Management Service - Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Studies

The program provides environmental information for the Department of the Interior decision-makers, States, local governments, and interested members of the public. The purpose of these studies is to ensure that proposed offshore oil, gas, and other mineral leasing is conducted in an environmentally safe manner.

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PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • The program is very effective in providing timely and sound environmental research to decision makers. The strength of the research is derived from the peer review process that Interior has put into place that includes the identification of research topics and the review of the research.
  • The program coordinates well with external parties to avoid duplication and maximize opportunities for collaboration. In addition, the program works with a variety of other research programs -- Federal, state, industry, and universities and colleges -- to accomplish its goals.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

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

  • Quantifying additional outcome measures, while being sensitive to the difficulties that research programs face in attempting to predict progress.
  • Working with the Administration to get approval of its new Performance Assessment Tool that has been developed to monitor the extent to which research projects fulfill information needs.

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