1. Western Environmental & Public Lands Update
Kathleen Sgamma

2. Outline Key policies Areas for improvement Policy permanence
Royalty Policy Committee – Onshore Working Group
Impact of the new political climate
What happens in Colorado stays in Colorado?

3. Western Energy Alliance
Founded in 1974 as IPAMS
300 member companies
Represents independents on federal issues
Promotes environmentally responsible development

4. Differentiation Western regional perspective to Washington
Federal environmental and regulatory issues
Tip of the spear on public lands
Outsized media presence
Little Oil aggressive advocacy

5. New waste prevention rule
Fracking rule
Leasing policy
NEPA policy
Federal nexus
Categorical exclusions policy
Sage grouse plan rewrites

6. Mitigation policy
Onshore order rewrite
ESA rules
Reducing APD processing times
Shutdown activities
First quarter lease sales

7. New bonding policy
Colorado sage grouse plan
Backlog of ONRR audits
Valuation rewrite
Onshore order enforcement
Lack of direction on litigation

8. Advocacy Strategy Real Change in the Field Policy Permanence Leasing
Environmental analysis
Project approvals
Policy Permanence
Congress
Rulemaking
Litigation

9. Success metric is reduced timelines for approvals

10. Legal Strategy BLM Fracking Rule BLM Methane Rule Sage Grouse Plans
Lease Sale Intervention
leases challenged in CO, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY
Enviro’s trying to stop future leasing as well

11. Royalty Policy Committee Onshore Recommendations
Overarching “philosophy”
Increase competitiveness of federal mineral estate
Versus increasing royalty rates
Reduce project approval timelines
APDs, ROWs, sundries, unit agreements, nominations
Issue policy on the use of categorical exclusions
Reduce the federal nexus for wells without a majority federal interest

12. Royalty Policy Committee Onshore Recommendations (con’t)
Improve land use planning and project NEPA approvals
Scope project NEPA to actual project impacts and limited to best available info
Revise and simplify onshore orders 3, 4 and 5
Working on a Notification for Permit to Drill recommendation

13. Last Two Years

14. Blue Tsunami in CO & NM Governors Down ballot state-wide officials
Legislatures

15. Prop 112 Soundly Defeated

16. Urban Areas/Mountain Towns

17. Suburbs Overcame Liberal Areas

18. Kathleen Sgamma ksgamma@westernenergyalliance.org (303) 501-1059
Thank you!
Kathleen Sgamma
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