[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 30, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 30CFR203.81]

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                       TITLE 30--MINERAL RESOURCES
 
                       DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
 
PART 203--RELIEF OR REDUCTION IN ROYALTY RATES--Table of Contents
 
               Subpart B--OCS Oil, Gas, and Sulfur General
 
Sec. 203.81  What supplemental reports do royalty-relief applications require?

    (a) You must send us the supplemental reports, indicated in the 
following table by an X, that apply to your field. Sections 203.83 
through 203.91 describe these reports in detail.

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                                                                                       Deep water
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                     Required reports                          life       Expansion     Pre-act     Development
                                                              lease        project       lease        project
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(1) Administrative information Report.....................         X               X          X               X
(2) Net revenue & relief justification report.............         X
(3) Economic viability & relief justification report (RSVP                         X          X               X
 model imputs justified by other required reports)........
(4) G&G report............................................                         X          X               X
(5) Engineering report....................................                         X          X               X
(6) Production report.....................................                         X          X               X
(7) Deep water cost report................................                         X          X               X
(8) Fabricator's confirmation report......................                         X          X               X
(9) Post-production development report....................                         X          X               X
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    (b) You must certify that all information in your application, 
fabricator's confirmation and post-production development reports is 
accurate, complete, and conforms to the most recent content and 
presentation guidelinesavailable from the MMS GOM Regional Office.
    (c) With your application and post-production development report, 
you must submit an additional report prepared by an independent CPA 
that:
    (1) Assesses the accuracy of the historical financial information in 
your report; and
    (2) Certifies that the content and presentation of the financial 
data and

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information conform to our most recent guidelines on royalty relief. 
This means the data and information must--
    (i) Include only eligible costs that are incurred during the 
qualification months; and
    (ii) Be shown in the proper format.
    (d) You must identify the people in the CPA firm who prepared the 
reports referred to in paragraph (c) of this section and make them 
available to us to respond to questions about the historical financial 
information. We may also further review your records to support this 
information.

[63 FR 2618, Jan. 16, 1998, as amended at 67 FR 1879, Jan. 15, 2002]