BOEM is recent and before BOEM it was called Minerals Management Service(MMS) and that single agency did both the leasing and the collecting of the royalties. When Bush was prez some of the MMS employees got caught messing around with employees of the oil companies. So they split MMS into two with one doing the leasing(OEMM) and one collecting the money(MRM).
All this dates back to the 50s with the birth of offshore drilling and the Submerged Land Act of 1954 when congress gave the Sec of Interior the authority to manage the continental shelf.
If you have never heard of this you are dumber than a dog turd.
If you have never heard of this you are dumber than a dog turd.
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Your factual comments contributed to the thread but your off handed emotional comment was totally unnecessary. What do you expect to accomplish by making crude and insulting comments like this?