TITLE 43 > CHAPTER 29 > SUBCHAPTER III SUBCHAPTER III—OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF LANDS

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Field	Value
Sector	Oil and Gas
Country	United States
Year	2008
RGI Edition Year	2017
Topic	Contract transparency and monitoring, Licensing and negotiation, Mandatory payment disclosure, Measurement of environmental and social impacts, Open data, Revenue management, Revenue sharing, State-owned enterprises, Subnational governance, Tax policy and revenue collection
Document Type	Statute
RGI Sub-component	Licensing
RGI Questions	1.1.4c: From 2015 onwards, and prior to each licensing process, did the licensing authority actually disclose the rules governing the licensing process, such as auction or negotiation rules?, 1.2.5b: Do rules specify the royalty rate(s) applying to extractive companies?, 1.2.6a: Is the government required to make all payments to the national treasury or deposit them into a national resource account, aside from amounts legally retained by SOEs?, 1.3.3b: Is there a requirement for environmental mitigation management plans to be publicly disclosed?, 2.2.1a: Do rules specify which subnational agencies receive the extractive resource revenues transferred from the central government?
Did this document contribute to RGI scoring?	Used for scoring
Are the RGI questions here tagged with law and/or practice	Law and Practice (Both)
Publisher	Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
Author	U.S. Congress
Source or API link	http://www.boem.gov/Outer-Continental-Shelf-Lands-Act/
Maintainer	Natural Resource Governance Institute
Maintainer Email	Natural Resource Governance Institute