During a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing on energy development on federal lands, focusing on the current status of the Department of the Interior’s Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing Program, U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) questioned Nada Culver, Deputy Director of Policy and Programs at the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior, on what the Department believes the purpose of the National Petroleum Reserve is and the Department's position on oil and gas leasing in the NPR-A.
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