[Federal Register: October 4, 2005 (Volume 70, Number 191)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Minerals Management Service
Notice and Agenda for Meeting of the Royalty Policy Committee
AGENCY: Minerals Management Service (MMS), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
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SUMMARY: Agenda items for the third meeting of the Royalty Policy
Committee (RPC) will include remarks from the Deputy Director, MMS, and
the Associate Director, Minerals Revenue Management (MRM), as well as
updates from the following subcommittees: Coal, Federal Oil and Gas
Valuation, Oil and Gas Royalty Reporting, and Indian Oil Valuation. The
RPC will also hear special reports on the Energy Policy Act of 2005,
the Royalty in Kind Program, and the MRM Strategic Business Planning
Initiative.
The RPC membership includes representatives from states, Indian
tribes, individual Indian mineral owner organizations, minerals
industry associations, the general public, and other Federal
departments.
DATES: Tuesday, November 8, 2005, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., mountain
time.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Sheraton Denver West Hotel,
360 Union Blvd., Lakewood, Colorado, 80228, telephone number 1-800-525-
3966.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gina Dan, Minerals Revenue Management,
Minerals Management Service, P.O. Box 25165, MS 300B2, Denver,
Colorado, 80225-0165, telephone number (303) 231-3392, fax number (303)
231-3780, e-mail gina.dan@mms.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The RPC provides advice to the Secretary and
top Department officials on minerals policy, operational issues, and
the performance of discretionary functions under the laws governing the
Department's management of Federal and Indian mineral leases and
revenues. The RPC reviews and comments on revenue management and other
mineral-related policies and provides a forum to convey views
representative of mineral lessees, operators, revenue payors, revenue
recipients, governmental agencies, and the interested public. Dates and
locations of future meetings will be published in the Federal Register
and posted on our Internet site at http://www.mms.gov/mmab/RoyaltyPolicyCommittee/rpc_homepage.htm.
Meetings will be open to the
public without advanced registration on a space available basis. To the
extent time permits, the public may make statements during the
meetings, and file written statements with the RPC for its
consideration. Copies of these written statements should be submitted
to Ms. Dan. Transcripts of this meeting will be available 2 weeks after
the meeting for public inspection and copying at our offices located in
Building 85, Denver Federal Center, West 6th Ave. and Kipling Blvd.,
Denver, Colorado 80225.
These meetings are conducted under the authority of the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 5 U.S.C., Appendix 1) and the
Office of Management and Budget (Circular No. A-63, revised).
Dated: September 28, 2005.
Lucy Querques Denett,
Associate Director, Minerals Revenue Management.
[FR Doc. 05-19799 Filed 10-3-05; 8:45 am]
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