USEITI 2015 Executive Summary

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Field	Value
Sector	Oil and Gas
Country	United States
Year	2015
RGI Edition Year	2017
Topic	Global initiatives, Legislation and regulation, Licensing and negotiation, Mandatory payment disclosure, Measurement of environmental and social impacts, Open data, State-owned enterprises
Document Type	Report
RGI Sub-component	Local impact
RGI Questions	1.1a: How does the country legally define the ownership of subsoil extractive resources?, 1.2.8a: Is the country EITI-compliant?, 1.1.3d: Is the licensing authority independent from the SOE?, 1.2.3a: Is the government required to publicly disclose data on payments from extractive companies to the government?, 1.3.1b: Is there a requirement for the EIA and/or SIA to be publicly disclosed?, 1.4.3c: Is the SOE required to submit annual reports to the legislature on its commercial, non-commercial (i.e. regulatory) and non-operational activities (i.e. activities not related to resource extraction)?
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	U.S. Government
Author	The United States Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative
Source or API link	https://useiti.doi.gov/downloads/USEITI_executive-summary_2015-12-22.pdf
Maintainer	Natural Resource Governance Institute
Maintainer Email	Natural Resource Governance Institute