FOR RELEASE:  December 22, 1994      CONTACT:  Michael L. Baugher 
                                                   (303) 231-3162
                                                          or
                                                       Lee Scurry
                                                   (202) 208-3983

               1993 MINERAL REVENUES REPORT AVAILABLE NOW
                    FROM MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE

    The U.S. Department of the Interior's Minerals Management
Service (MMS) announces the availability of the annual
publication, Mineral Revenues 1993 Report On Receipts From
Federal And Indian Leases.

    The 140-page booklet reports on the 1993 activities of the
MMS Royalty Management Program, including collection of $4
billion in bonuses, rents and royalties from Indian and federal
offshore and onshore mineral leases.

    The annual report also offers tables and statistics relating
to the generation, distribution and history of revenues obtained
under this program. 

    The Minerals Management Service distributed $543.7 million to
mineral-producing states in 1993. The money was the states' share
of mineral revenues from federal lands located within their
borders and from special federal offshore oil and gas tracts
adjacent to the boundary between state and federal waters.

    In addition, the Historic Preservation Fund received $150
million and the Land and Water Conservation Fund received $900
million in revenues from the federal Outer Continental Shelf
(OCS) program.  The balance of OCS receipts -- some $1.9 billion
-- was directed to the General Fund of the U.S. Treasury.

    Copies of the 1993 report are now available, free of charge,
by writing or calling:
    
                  Public Affairs Office
                  Royalty Management Program           
                  Minerals Management Service          
                  P.O. Box 25165     MS-3000
                  Denver, CO    80225
                  (303) 231-3162

    MMS is the federal agency that manages and regulates the
nation's natural gas, oil and other mineral resources on the
Outer Continental Shelf, and collects and disburses revenues from
offshore federal mineral leases and from onshore mineral leases
on federal and Indian lands.

                           --MMS-RMP--