The role of scientific advisory committee outer continental shelf program of minerals management service

The Scientific Advisory Committee gives advice to Minerals Management Service on the Studies Program of the Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing Program. The SAC has aided the development of the OCS Studies Program a t MMS, helping to shift its focus away from general surveys and toward process oriented studies, to more universal publication of results, to focus of more of the research on long-term effects, and to concentration of effort in regions of the OCS where there are most likely to be effects.