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Data and facts serving as basis for the analysis and recommendations were culled from literature or acquired from inquiries addressed to experts. Of particular significance was a supplementary cost-effectiveness analysis of three alternatives with respect to national self-sufficiency and security. Here the opening up of the outer continental shelf was contrasted with supply via the trans-Alaska pipeline system and imports. The team conducting the investigation arrived at the conclusion that intensified exploitation of the United States outer continental shelf is preferable to the... 

Safety trends—United States Outer Continental Shelf. 

Prior to the Deepwater Horizon/Macondo disaster, the safety of oil and gas facilities on the United States Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) was regulated by the Minerals Management Service (MMS). Following that event, the agency was reorganized and renamed as BOEMRE. This new agency was then quickly divided into two new stand-alone agencies BOEM and BSEE. 

Hoffman, E. E. (1988). Plankton dynamics on the outer southeastern United States continental shelf 3. 

Hofmann, E. E., and Ambler, J. W. (1988). Plankton dynamics on the outer southeastern United States continental shelf 2. A time-dependent biological model. J. Mar. Res. 46, 883—917. 

Scholle, P.A., 1979. Geological studies of the COST GE-I Well, United States South Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf area. U.S. Geol. Surv., Circ. 800, 114 pp. 

Trosclair s frustration was echoed by various notable entities in the United States. In its September 2010 Report, the newly established Outer Continental Shelf Safely Oversight Board (the Board) highlighted both the insufficient numbers of staff in the Gulf of Mexico and the difficulties in recruitment and retention of inspectors. The reasons for these shortcomings, the Board concluded, were not only that the... 

GAO (1973) Improved Inspection and Regulation Could Reduce The Possibility of Oil Spills On the Outer Continental Shelf. Report to the Conservation and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Government Operations, House of Representatives by the Comptroller General of the United States, B-146333, 29 June 1973 (hereinafter, GAO 1973 Report). Note that at the time the acronym GAO stood for General Accounting Office and not Government Accountability Office, despite being the same entity. 

Section 4(a) states that the provisions of the OSH Act shall apply with respect to employment performed in a workplace in a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, Wake Island, Outer Continental Shelf Lands defined in the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, Johnston Island, and the Canal Zone. The Secretary of the Interior shall, by regulation, provide for judicial enforcement of this Act by the courts established for areas in which there are no United States district courts having jurisdiction. ... 

Contractors The SEMS rule is the SMS prescribed by BSEE for use on the Outer Continental Shelf of the United States. It is closely based on the well-established API Recommended Practice 75. However, additional material has been added by BSEE. This chapter discusses the rule in detail. 

Requirements for the means of escape, personnel landings, guard rads, and lifesaving apphances are normally specified by the authority having jurisdiction. For example, in the United States, the U.S. Coast Guard Rules and Regulations are contained in 33 CFR subchapter N—Outer Continental Shelf Activities, Parts 140 through 147—set requirements in the offshore waters of the United States. Likewise, in the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) of the United States, requirements are specified in the 30 CFR Parts 250 and 256—Oil and Gas and Sulphur Operations on the Outer Continental Shelf. 

The offshore oil and gas industry in the United States, at least up until the time of the Deepwater Horizon incident, was quite resistant to the need for increased regulations—specifically the need for SEMS. The Commission s report suggests that a change is needed. After all, the oil industry does not own the outer continental shelf. The federal government has the authority and responsibility to require industry to take whatever actions are needed to achieve safe operations. 

This chapter describes the Safety and Environmental Management Systems (SEMS) rule that applies to the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) of the United States. (The manner in which regulations are created and enforced for the United States offshore oil and gas industries is described in Chapter 4. The practical implementation of a SEMS program—including timing, cost, and schedule development—is discussed in... 

Equipment manufactured to this specification is primarily intended for service in outer continental shelf (OCS) waters contiguous to the United States. The equipment is identified with the API 14D monogram. 

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