U.S.F.W.S Finalizes Improvements to 50-Year-old Gas, Oil Regulations

By AmmoLand Editor JE

USA -(Ammoland.com)- As part of its ongoing commitment to preserving America’s rich wildlife legacy and the ability of all Americans to enjoy their unique and spectacular public lands, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is finalizing a rule to govern the management of non-federal oil and gas development on lands of the National Wildlife Refuge System.

The final revisions to the 50-year-old regulations allow for the continued responsible extraction of oil and gas, but require closer adherence to industry best management practices, and will prevent the potentially hazardous abandonment of infrastructure and on-refuge disposal of debris.

The Service is responsible for managing more than 850 million acres in the Refuge System, including five marine national monuments, 565 national wildlife refuges and 38 wetland management districts.

Refuges are critical to the local communities that surround them, serving as centers for recreation, economic growth, and landscape health and resiliency.

In doing so, they support regional economies to the tune of $2.4 billion dollars per year and more than 35,000 jobs.

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