The U.S. Department of the Interior will offer 73 million acres in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) in a proposed region-wide lease sales, Interior Secretary Ryan Zink said in a March 6 statement.The lease sales are under a new five-year program that will include all available areas in federal waters offshore Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.The first sale, Lease Sale 249, is scheduled for August and will include about 13,725 unleased blocks, located from three to 230 miles offshore, in the Gulf’s Western, Central and Eastern planning areas in water depths ranging from 3 m to 3,400 m (9 ft to more than 11,115 ft).
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