U.S. Department of the Interior Minerals Management Service Office of Public Affairs

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MMS Director Burton to hold Press Conference at OTC 2004

Who:                           Minerals Management Service, Director Johnnie Burton

What:                          Press Conference at the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) to announce the new deepwater report Deepwater Gulf of Mexico 2004:  America’s Expanding Frontier and to announce the implementation of the eWell Permitting and Reporting System.

When:                         Wednesday, May 5, 2004, at 11:00 a.m.

Where:                        Offshore Technology Conference Press Room
                                    Reliant Center, Houston, Texas

The Minerals Management Service is the federal agency in the U.S. Department of the Interior that manages the nation’s oil, natural gas, and other mineral resources on the Outer Continental Shelf in Federal offshore waters.  The agency also collects, accounts for, and disburses mineral revenues from Federal and American Indian lands.  MMS disbursed more than $8 billion in FY 2003 and more than $135 billion since the agency was created in 1982.  Nearly $1 billion from those revenues go into the Land and Water Conservation Fund annually for the acquisition and development of state and Federal park and recreation lands.

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