WASHINGTON, July 26 (UPI) -- A draft bill circulated by the chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee would create three new agencies tasked with overseeing offshore drilling.
U.S. Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources, in a proposal aims to abolish the Minerals Management Service and create three agencies in its place. His measure would also establish a new undersecretary of energy, lands and minerals.