Excerpt from Transfer of Blm's Oil and Gas Lease Duties to States: Oversight Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources of the Committee on Resources, House of Representatives Mr. Abercrombie. Ok. Now, then with respect to any of the lands, the Secretary promulgates the regulations that defines the functions. The Secretary shall rule and promulgate standards and regulations pertaining to the authority and responsibility that the State has to assume under any such agreement as to what is a rea sonable burden. If the Secretary finds that any State to which any authority or responsibility has been delegated is in violation of the Section or the Rule or the Regulation, the Secretary can revoke the delegation. Do you agree, Mr. Carter? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.