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EMD-82-17 1 (1981-11-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabcqs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: BY THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL Report To The Congress OF THE UNITED STATES Annual Report On Outer Continental Shelf Shut-In Or Flaring Wells Is No Longer Needed The Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act A- mendments of 1978 require (1) the Secretary of the Interior to submit annually a report on shut-in (not producing) or flaring (burning off) natural gas OCS wells, and (2) the Comp troller General to annually examine and re port on the methodology used by the Secre tary in allowing such activity Interior's report, however, does not satisfy the congressional intent behind this require ment, and continuance of the reporting is less necessary in light of recent oil and gas price decontrol measures Relief from the annual reporting requirement would release resources of both the Department of the Interior and the General Accounting Of fice to serve higher priority needs Monitoring shut in and flaring wells would continue as part of Interior's routine oversight of OCS activities 116915 1CCOU1 _, NEMD 82 17 NOVEMBER 19, 1981