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Interior: Offshore energy permitting, quake monitoring would continue during shutdown

by Ben Geman - 04/07/11 6:06 PM ET

But overall, a broad range of services and programs would shutter, the memo states, including National Parks and wildlife refuges, Bureau of Indian Affairs economic development programs, federal oversight and regulation of surface coal mining and others.

This includes, according to the memo, “Onshore oil and gas leasing activities and most permitting, inspection, and enforcement work,” and “Permits and approvals for onshore renewable energy rights-of-way issuances, Endangered Species Act clearances, Historic Preservation Act clearances.”

It notes that 52,500 of Interior’s 68,900 employees would be initially furloughed, and the total could later reach 55,000.

Read the whole memo here.

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