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Notice2023-00842

Modifications to the Bid Adequacy Procedures for Offshore Oil and Gas Lease Sales

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Published
January 19, 2023

Issuing agencies

Interior DepartmentOcean Energy Management Bureau

Abstract

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announces and invites comments on its intention to change its bid adequacy procedures (BAPs), which ensure the United States receives fair market value (FMV) from Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) oil and gas lease sales. BOEM proposes to discontinue the use of both tract classification and delayed valuation methodology. Instead, BOEM proposes to use a statistical lower bound confidence interval (LBCI), at the 90 percent confidence level, as a measure of bid adequacy. BOEM is also proposing other, minor adjustments to its BAPs to clarify and streamline its processes.

Indexed from Federal Register on January 19, 2023.

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