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The
NewsRoom
Media Advisory
Release #: 3028
Date: February 9, 2004
Department of the Interior's
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Land and Minerals Management Patricia Morrison
and
MMS Director
Johnnie Burton to
Keynote Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation
Meeting
Who: Department of the
Interior Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals
Management, Patricia Morrison and Johnnie Burton, Director of the U.S.
Department of the Interior’s Minerals Management Service.
What:
Keynote addresses at the three-day
Special Institute on Federal and Indian Royalty Valuation and
Management, sponsored in partnership by the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law
Foundation and the Minerals Management Service.
When:
Johnnie Burton, 9 a.m. Wednesday,
Feb. 11 -- Patricia Morrison, 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11
Where:
JW Marriott Hotel, 5150
Westheimer, Houston, Texas
Department of the Interior Principal Deputy
Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management Patricia Morrison
and MMS Director Johnnie Burton will be in Houston, Texas, Wednesday,
Feb. 11, to address the three-day Special Institute on Federal and
Indian Royalty Valuation and Management. This is the fourth such
Special Institute sponsored in partnership by the Rocky Mountain
Mineral Law Foundation and the Minerals Management Service.
MMS is the federal agency in the U.S.
Department of the Interior that manages the nation's oil, natural gas,
and other mineral resources on the outer continental shelf in federal
offshore waters. The agency also collects, accounts for, and
disburses mineral revenues from Federal and American Indian lands.
Between 1982 and 2003, MMS distributed over $135 billion in revenues
from onshore and offshore lands, an average of over $6 billion per
year, to the Nation, States and American Indians. Nearly $1 billion
from those revenues go into the Land and Water Conservation Fund
annually for the acquisition and development of State and Federal park
and recreation lands.
The Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, a
non-profit Colorado corporation, is an educational institution
dedicated to the study of the legal system and issues affecting
mineral and water resources. The goals of the Foundation are to
foster and encourage a scholarly and yet practical study of the law
relating to oil and gas, mining, water, public land management, land
use, conservation, environmental protection, and other related areas.
Relevant Web Sites
MMS Main Website
Gulf of Mexico Website
Media Contacts
Patrick Etchart
(303) 231-3162
Nicolette Humphries
(202) 208-3985
MMS: Securing Ocean Energy & Economic Value for America
U.S. Department of the Interior |