Department of the interior.

• Position: Inside Alaska Business - Brief article

After considering more than 3.3 million public comments and holding thirty-six public meetings, US Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management Director Abigail Hopper released the final plan to guide future energy development for the Nation's Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) for 2017-2022.

The Proposed Final Program offers eleven potential lease sales In four planning areas--ten sales In the portions of...