This is unacceptable. BOEM needs to be held accountable for this.
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Westerman demands accountability from BOEM for its delays in oil and gas lease sales.
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These are hearings that we try to do across the country, in many different places, to address the concerns of the Natural Resources Committee.
this is actually extremely more innovative than just saying, oh, we are going to pull $1.3 billion out of the air from our kids and our grandkids and shove it down to the states with no responsibility.
I think under RAWA you would have about $13 million a year, but you probably have the potential to generate $30 or $40 million a year to do wildlife management where you don't have something like a timber resource to pay it back.
This monumental mis-step that is nearly 2 years late marks an unprecedented shift in offshore policies.





