The Minerals Management Service's (MMS) draft five-year plan for U.S. Outer Continental Shelf leasing includes a study of oil and gas development offshore Virginia and in the North Aleutian Basin offshore Alaska. Several additional revisions of the plan, which covers 2007-12, are expected after public comment and internal reconsiderations. The plan does not open new acreage in the Gulf of Mexico. "The idea of leasing federal waters off the coast of Virginia comes in response to discussion in the state's legislature about the potential of energy development off its coast," says MMS director Johnnie Burton. "However no offshore development will occur off of Virginia unless the state's congressional delegation works to lift the (existing) moratorium." As for an expansion of drilling leases offshore Alaska, the MMS reports that the state of Alaska has requested it.
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