This report explains the legal framework for energy leasing and permitting for onshore lands subject to the control of the fed. gov¿t. Contents: (1) Intro.; (2) Oil, Natural Gas, and Coal Exploration and Production on Fed. Lands: History and Background; Fed. Lands Subject to Coal, Oil Natural Gas Leasing; Development of Resource Mgmt. Plans; The Leasing Process: Oil and Gas; Lease Terms and Conditions: Oil and Natural Gas; Applications for Permits to Drill: Oil and Gas; The Leasing Process: Coal; Lease Terms and Conditions: Coal; (3) Renewable Energy Projects on Fed. Lands: Background; Geothermal Project Leasing; Authorizations for Wind and Solar Energy Projects. This is a print on demand report.

Covers all the published and all the important unpublished decisions and opinions of the Department of the Interior ...

Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."