U.S. Department of the Interior
Minerals Management Service
Office of Communications

NEWS RELEASE

1996 MINERAL REVENUES REPORT AVAILABLE
FROM MINERALS MANAGEMENT SERVICE

The U.S. Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service has published the Mineral Revenues 1996 Report On Receipts From Federal And Indian Leases. It is now available in both electronic and print versions.

The 148-page publication reports on the 1996 activities of the MMS Royalty Management Program, including collection of $5.5 billion in bonuses, rents and royalties from Indian and federal offshore and onshore minerals leases. The annual report also offers tables and statistics related to the generation, distribution and history of revenues obtained under this program. Among the information offered are sales amounts, values and royalties for a variety of minerals in individual states.

The 1996 publication, as well as earlier editions, is now available through MMS's Internet site http://www.mrm.mms.gov/library/statroom/statsrm.htm. Hard copies of the 1996 report are also available, free of charge, by writing or calling:

Claire Schaeffer
Royalty Management Program
Minerals Management Service
P.O. Box 25165 MS-3062
Denver, CO 80225-0165
(303) 231-3067

MMS is the federal agency that manages the Nation's oil, natural gas, and other mineral resources on the Outer Continental Shelf. MMS also collects, accounts for, and disburses about $4 billion yearly in revenues from offshore federal mineral leases and from onshore mineral leases on federal and Indian lands.

-MMS-

MMS Internet website address: http://www.mms.gov
MMS's 24 hour Fax-on-Demand Service: (202) 219-1703