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Verification of Fixed Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms An Analysis of Need, Scope, and Alternative Verification Systems (1977) / Chapter Skim
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LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS
Pages 44-45

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... Part 250 of the Code of Federal Regulations refers in turn to the legislative mandate in the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) , 43 USC 1334, as its statutory authority.
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... Public interest groups might challenge the authority as well as the substance, if they thought the USGS authority was inadequate, and if they believed pressure on Congress might result in a tougher perspective. Until this issue has been clarified, exercise of the USGS current safety oriented activities in response to its "conservation" mandate provides a basis for designing (and probably implementing)
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