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THE ASSOCIATE DEPUTY SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR WASHINGTON, DC 20240 JUN 2 8 2017 Memorandum To: Assistant Secretaries Heads of Bureaus and Offices From: Associate Deputy Secretary OMUA- Subject: Draft Report on Energy Indep ice under E.O. 13783 Executive Order (E.O.) 13783, Promoting Energy Independence and Economic Growth, requires the head of each agency to review all agency actions that potentially burden the development or use of domestically produced energy resources, with particular attention to oil, natural gas, coal, and nuclear energy resources. See E.O. 13783, section 2(a). As part of this review, each agency must submit a draft report to the Vice President and others at the end of July that includes recommendations for addressing actions through rescission, revision, suspension, publication for notice and comment, or otherwise. Thank you for your efforts to date in identifying actions and providing recommendations under E.O. 13783 and Secretary's Order 3349, American Energy Independence. To ensure that we accurately capture your extensive efforts in the upcoming Interior-wide draft report, please insert the information you have already provided into the format provided in the attached template, filling in any gaps and providing any updates. If you have already identified actions but have not yet made specific recommendations for reconsideration, modification, or rescission, as appropriate, please take this opportunity to make those recommendations. Please also review the template closely, as it requires the inclusion of actions that may extend beyond those you identified in your prior submission. Your use of this format will greatly assist us in ensuring consistency and merging all Bureaus' information into a Department-wide report. Please provide your formatted input to the Office of the Executive Secretariat, room 7314, by noon on July 14, 2017. Your submission constitutes your approval for the draft report. Thank you again for your attention to this important effort. cc: Counselor to the Secretary for Energy Policy Chiefs of Staff