The Interior Department’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement today announced the release of a final rule effective Thursday, May 18 that specifies decommissioning requirements for rights-of-use and easement grant holders and formalizes BSEE’s policies regarding performance by predecessors ordered to decommission Outer Continental Shelf facilities.
BSEE Director Kevin Sligh said that the rule will “provide the certainty requested by industry about how BSEE pursues decommissioning compliance from affected lessees and grant holders, helping operators to plan for future decommissioning actions and improving industry’s compliance with decommissioning obligations.”
