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Bonding Requirements When Filing an Appeal of a Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement Civil Penalty; Corrections
On November 14, 2024, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) published final rules that amended appeal rights. Some of the language from the appeal rights sec...
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
On November 14, 2024, BSEE published final rules in the
Federal Register
(89 FR 89922) that modified paragraph (b) of § 250.1409. Paragraphs (b)(1) and (2), which were included in the proposed rule (88 FR 86285), were inadvertently and unintentionally left out of the final rule. This document corrects the final regulations to restore those two paragraphs.
- Administrative practice and procedure
- Continental shelf
- Environmental impact statements
- Environmental protection
- Government contracts
- Investigations
- Mineral resources
- Oil and gas exploration
- Penalties
- Pipelines
- Public lands—mineral resources
- Public lands—rights-of-way
- Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
- Sulfur
Accordingly, 30 CFR part 250 is corrected by making the following correcting amendments:
PART 250—OIL AND GAS AND SULPHUR OPERATIONS IN THE OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF
1. The authority citation for part 250 continues to read as follows:
30 U.S.C. 1751, 31 U.S.C. 9701, 33 U.S.C. 1321(j)(1)(C), 43 U.S.C. 1334.
2. In § 250.1409, add paragraphs (b)(1) and (2) to read as follows:
What are my appeal rights?
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(b) * * *
(1) Submit a surety bond in the amount of the penalty to the appropriate Leasing Office in the Region where the penalty was assessed, following instructions that the Reviewing Officer will include in the final decision; or
(2) Notify the appropriate Leasing Office, in the Region where the penalty was assessed, that you want your lease-specific/area-wide bond on file to be used as the bond for the penalty amount.
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Adam G. Suess,
Acting Assistant Secretary, Land and Minerals Management.