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THE IAGC IAGC WEIGHS IN AS NEW FIVE-

ADVOCATES FOR
EXTENSION OF YEAR PLAN GETS UNDERWAY
PERMITS; BOEM
AGREES TO he U.S. Department of the The IAGC and its allied trades'
ONE-YEAR G&G Interior (DOI) on 29 June 2017 comments on the Five-Year-Plan
PERMITS Tannounced work on a new urged the Administration to fully
five-year offshore oil and gas leasing evaluate and consider all OCS areas
plan with a Request for Information in light of continued safety and
n August, the IAGC (RFI) for public input. The RFI environmental performance
achieved another considers leasing in the Atlantic OCS improvements and the expected
Isignificant victory and and notes the "tremendous advances global economic and population
step to ensure our members' in instrumentation and technology growth, energy efficiency
license to operate offshore for the acquisition and analysis of improvements and alternative
the U.S. As a result of the G&G data" since the Atlantic was last energy sources which will not be
IAGC's successful surveyed which demonstrate "the sufficient to meet anticipated U.S.
engagement with the need to better understand the scope and global energy demand.
Administration and of existing resources."
regulatory agencies, BOEM
has agreed to extend all
existing and future
geophysical permits to one-
year terms. Previously,
BOEM permitted DOI SECRETARIAL ORDER
geophysical survey activity
for 2-month terms requiring SEEKS TO OPEN ALASKA
the applicant to request
frequent and successive FOR LEASING
2-month extensions for a
maximum permit period of
one year. The IAGC's
success removes this aying, "The President has now U.S. Department of the Interior
administrative burden for the declared that the war on North Secretary Ryan Zinke took a major
applicant and the agency. SAmerican energy is now over," step on 31 May toward opening the
North Slope of Alaska to energy
development. Secretary Zinke
ordered new geophysical studies on
the oil and gas potential of federal
land on the North Slope, including
the coastal plain of Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).

This is one of many steps resulting
from the IAGC's direct efforts to
ensure the geophysical industry
remains at the forefront of energy
exploration and development policies
and to communicate the message that
energy starts here.

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