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                                          FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                          Expected at 10:00 a.m.
                                          Tuesday, March 31, 1981


           United States General Accounting Office
                   Washington, DC  20548

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

                         Before the
              Subcommi'tee on the Panama Canal
                andtheuter Continental Shelf
                House Committee on Merchant
                    Marine and Fisheries                 114752

Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:

     GAO welcomes the opportunity to appear before the Subcommit-

tee to discuss the findings of our recently completed reviews of

the OCS program. Our reviews, which were requested by Congressman

Edwin B. Forsythe of the Subcommittee, focused on the evolution

of the offshore program through the 1970s and the identification

of problnils that have restricted the leasing and development of

OCS lands. The results of our work were made available to the

Congress in two recently released reports--which I would like,

at this time, to submit for the record as part of my testimony. 1/

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES

ON THE OCS PROGRAM

     Interior's offshore leasing program began in 1953 with the

passage of the OCS Lands Act. Between 1953 and 1969, the offshore

program was a fairly non-controversial program restricted to the




1/Issues In Leasing Offshore Lands For Oil and Gas Development
  EMD-81-59, March 26, 1981, and Impact of Regulations--After
  Federal Leasing--On Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas
  Development EMD-81-48, February 27, 1981.




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