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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Letters to Lessees

Letters to Lessees

BSEE Guidance documents include Notices to Lessees and Operators (NTLs), Renewable Energy guidance, and Letters to Lessees and Operators (LTLs).

Notices to Lessees and Operators (NTLs) are formal guidance documents issued to the offshore oil and gas industry to provide lessees, operators, pipeline rights-of-way holders, and rights-of-use and easement holders on the OCS a better understanding of the scope and meaning of a regulation by explaining BSEE interpretation of a requirement. NTLs may clarify, interpret, or provide more detail regarding the implementation of BSEE’s regulations or lease stipulations.

BSEE uses Letters to Lessees and Operators (LTLs) to provide general expectations for all operations on the OCS and to transmit administrative information, such as changes in BSEE personnel or office address or information on making payments to BSEE.

Renewable energy guidance, once issued will include Notices to Lessees and Operators (NTLs), and other documents that provide clarification, description, or interpretation of a regulation or OCS standard; clarify the implementation of a special lease stipulation or regional requirement; or explain BSEE's interpretation of a regulatory requirement.

Title Summary Effective Date Posted Date
LTL BSEE Decom Letter to Stakeholders

LTL BSEE Decom Letter to Stakeholders
LTL BSEE Sustainability Single Use Plastics

LTL BSEE Sustainability Single Use Plastics
LTL BSEE Protection Goal - Cybersecurity on the OCS

LTL BSEE Protection Goal - Cybersecurity on the OCS
Letter to Lessees - Provide Clarification, Description, and Interpretation with Regard to Pipeline Requirements

The purpose of this letter is to provide clarification, description, and interpretation of the requirements contained in 30 CFR 250.150 through 30 CFR 250.164 (Federal Register, April 1, 1988, 53 FR 10756-10761) which pertain to the approval, installation, operation, maintenance, and abandonment of lease term and right-of-way (ROW) pipelines and to the granting, modification, and relinquishment of pipeline ROW's in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). Accordingly, those regulations and this letter supersede all previous pipeline regulations and Minerals Management Service (MMS) Report No. 84-0015, Pipeline Guidelines and Procedures. The MMS GOM OCS Region has developed the following guidance listed by regulatory reference: