MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE

The purpose of the 'Minerals Management Service' (MMS), as part of the U.S. Department of the Interior, is to manage the mineral resources on the nation's Outer Continental Shelf in an environmentally sound and safe manner, and to collect, verify, and distribute, in a timely fashion, mineral revenues generated from Federal (onshore and offshore) land and Indian lands. MMS manages two very important programs, the Offshore Minerals Management Program and the Royalty Management Program.
As of August, 2005 the MMS also exerts federal regulatory control over wind farms, taking over from the Army Corps of Engineers. [1]

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★ Minerals Management Service

★ Project On Government Oversight

★ New York Times, "Blowing the Whistle on Big Oil," December 3, 2006.

★ CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, "Keeping Them Honest: Oil Royalties," January 18, 2007

★ ''U.S. News and World Report'', "A billion here, a billion there," December 10, 2006.

★ ''Washington Post'', "Harvesting Energy From Public Land May Owe U.S.," May 7, 2006.

★ PBS NOW, "Crude Awakening," June 16, 2006