Land Use Planning and Oil and Gas Leasing on Onshore Federal Lands

Committee on Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 1 Introduction; 4 2 Setting; 5 3 Origins of Leasing and Planning; 6 4 Difficulties in Relating Leasing and Planning; 7 5 Land Use Planning for Oil and Gas; 8 6 Oil and Gas Leasing and Management Procedures; 9 7 Areas of the Greatest Conflict in Values; 10 8 Discussion and Recommendations; 11 Minority Statement; 12 Appendixes; 13 Appendix A: Statement of Tasks Agreed on by the Bureau of Land Management, the Forest Service, and the National Academy of Sciences; 14 Appendix B: Letter from Chairmen Clarifying Task; 15 Appendix C: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Offer to Lease and Lease for Oil and Gas; 16 Appendix D: Detailed Description of Notice of Staking, Application for Permit to Drill, and Approved Drilling Plan Procedures, as Delineated in Figure 6.4