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                                        FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                        Expected at 10:00 a.m.
                                        Thursday, April 22, 1982


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

                          Statement of
                     Douglas L. McCullough
         Deputy Director,  Energy and Minerals Division

                          Before the
                Subcommittee on  the Panama Canal
                and  the Outer Continental Shelf
                  House  Committee on Merchant
                      Marine  and Fisheries

                            SUMMARY

     Interior has done  a more thorough job documenting its
analyses and planning  in support of its March 1982 Tentative
Proposed Final OCS Leasing Program than what was done  in support
of the July 1981 program.   Interior's March program is responsive
to the concerns and recommendations  in GAO's Pitfalls report.
Interior has also developed what appears  to be a most comprehensive
analysis of the developmental, environmental,  and economic impacts
and tradeoffs of the program as required by  Section 18 of the OCS
Lands Act Amendments of 1978.

     One area still of concern is the post-sale bid evaluation  and
acceptance process--the major question being how many tracts will
require evaluation.  Interior's ability to evaluate and  award
tracts receiving few bids in a timely manner is crucial to the
success of the accelerated program.

     Mid-Atlantic Sale 59 competition was comparable to or better
than the previous mid-Atlantic sale, although not nearly as good
as the initial sale in the mid-Atlantic leasing area.  GAO has
not determined why such an unusually high number of tract bids
were rejected.











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