About Us

The OCS Alternative Energy Programmatic EIS will be prepared by the Minerals Management Service with assistance from Argonne National Laboratory.

About the Minerals Management Service (MMS)

The Minerals Management Service (MMS), a bureau in the U.S. Department of the Interior, is the Federal agency that manages the nation's natural gas, oil and other mineral resources on the outer continental shelf (OCS). The agency also collects, accounts for and disburses more than $8 billion per year in revenues from Federal offshore mineral leases and from onshore mineral leases on Federal and Indian lands. The program is national in scope and headquartered in Washington, D.C. It includes two major programs, Offshore Minerals Management and Minerals Revenue Management. The Offshore program, which manages the mineral resources on the OCS, comprises three regions: Alaska, Gulf of Mexico, and the Pacific. The Minerals Revenue Management program is headquartered in Washington, D.C., but operationally based in Denver, Colorado.

About Argonne

Argonne National Laboratory is one of the U.S. Department of Energy's largest research centers. It is also the nation's first national laboratory, chartered in 1946. The Environmental Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory conducts applied research, assessment, and technology development in such areas as risk and waste management, natural resources, integrated assessments, restoration, pollution prevention environmental policy analysis and planning, and environmental management.

For More Information

For general questions about the OCS Alternative Energy Programmatic EIS Web site or the OCS Alternative Energy Programmatic EIS, contact us at: ocsenergywebmaster@anl.gov

For further information on the OCS Alternative Energy Programmatic EIS, you may also contact:

Mary Boatman
Branch of Environmental Assessment
Minerals Management Service
Phone: 703-787-1662
Fax: 703-787-1026
mary.boatman@mms.gov

For further information on the the Alternate Energy-Related Use Program and Rule, please contact:

Maureen Bornholdt
Chief, MMS Marine Minerals Branch
Minerals Management Service
Phone: 703-787-1300
Maureen.bornholdt@mms.gov