The Secretary's Order calls for enhancing opportunities for energy exploration, leasing, and development of the OCS,
establishing regulatory certainty for OCS activities, and enhancing conservation stewardship, thereby providing jobs, energy security, and revenue for the American people.
A key provision of the ABC petition would have the Department of Interior's Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS)
establish a permitting process that would significantly improve the protection of birds covered by the MBTA and would afford the wind industry a degree of
regulatory and legal
certainty that can not be provided in the absence of such a process.