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                                     FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                     Expected at 9:30 a.m.
                                     Tuesday, December 15, 1981


             United States General Accounting Office
                     Washington, D.C.   20548

                           Statement of
                           J. Dexter Peach
             Director, Energy and Minerals Division

                            Before the
       Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and the
                Subcommittee on Mines and.Mining
        House  Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs

                               on
    Department of  the Interior Organizational Effectiveness
    for Management of Federal Energy and Mineral  Resources

Mr. Chairman  and Members of the Subcommittees:

     We appreciate this opportunity to present our views on the

Department of the Interior's organizational effectiveness  in

managing energy and mineral resources.  We have done a con-

siderable amount of work in this general area.  We have not,

however, fully completed the type of analysis required to

address the questions you recently raised.  Thus our views

expressed today are tentative, subject to results of  further

evaluation.

     @GO has reported on several occasions that hundreds of

millions of dollars in royalties due from Federal Government

and Indian leases are not being collected annually.  Since

1959, GXO has been reporting on the need for major improvements

in the U.S. Geological Survey's oil and gas royalty accounting

system.  As you are aware, the Secretary of the Interior established

the Commission on Fiscal Accountability of the Nation's Energy

Resources to report on necessary improvements in this system

by the end of January 1982.


                             I /  ~ 7117083

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