Risk Management and Financial Assurance for OCS Lease and Grant Obligations; Extension of Public Comment Period

What it does

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) is extending the public comment period on our notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) titled "Risk Management and Financial Assurance for OCS Lease and Grant Obligations" by seven days. Comments previously submitted need not be resubmitted and will be fully considered.

The Ocean Energy Management Bureau's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What it would change

3 parts of Title 30 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

30 CFR 550, 30 CFR 556, 30 CFR 590

Before this

1 earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 1010-AE26 since Jan. 1, 2025.

• March 9, 2026 Notice of proposed rulemaking and request for comment. Risk Management and Financial Assurance for OCS Lease and Grant Obligations

What happens next and when

The comment period for the proposed rule "Risk Management and Financial Assurance for OCS Lease and Grant Obligations," which was published on March 9, 2026, at 91 FR 11212, is extended by 7 days. Online comments submitted at https://www.regulations.gov must be uploaded by 11:59 p.m. eastern daylight time on May 15, 2026. Hardcopy comments submitted by a parcel delivery service must be received by BOEM or postmarked on or before May 15, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket BOEM-2025-0042 on Regulations.gov
• Title 30 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register