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The
NewsRoom
Media Advisory
Release #: 3091
Date: May 10, 2004
MMS
to Hold Cook Inlet Lease Sale 191
What:
Cook Inlet Lease
Sale 191
When:
10 a.m., Wednesday, May 19, 2004,
following the State of Alaska Cook Inlet Areawide Sale
Where: Wilda Marston
Theatre
Loussac
Library
3600 Denali Street
Anchorage, AK
MMS will open bids for leases in federal OCS Sale
191 beginning at approximately 10 a.m. following the State of Alaska’s
Cook Inlet and Foothills bid openings.
MMS Regional Director
John Goll will announce the results of the sale immediately after the
bid reading. He will be available for interviews immediately after
the sale.
For more information
about the sale, call the Office of Public Affairs at 907-271-6070 or
visit the MMS Alaska website at
www.mms.gov/alaska.
MMS manages the nation's oil, natural gas, and
other mineral resources on the Outer Continental Shelf in federal
offshore waters. MMS also collects, accounts for, and disburses
mineral revenues from federal and American Indian lands. Between 1982
and 2003, MMS distributed more than $135 billion in revenues from
onshore and offshore lands, an average of more than $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 development of State and federal park and recreation
lands.
Additionally, the State
of Alaska receives 27% of all revenues generated as a result of
federal leases that lie within 3-to-6 miles offshore the Alaska coast,
and 50% of this money goes into the Alaska Permanent Fund Account.
Relevant Web Sites
MMS Main Website
Media Contacts
Robin Lee Cacy
907-271-6070
1-800-764-2627
akwebmaster@mms.gov
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