Sec. 221. Purposes
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The purposes of this subtitle are to— respond to the Nation’s increased need for domestic energy resources; facilitate interagency coordination and cooperation in the processing of permits required to support oil and gas use authorization on Federal lands, both onshore and on the Outer Continental Shelf, in order to achieve greater consistency, certainty, and timeliness in permit processing requirements; promote process streamlining and increased interagency efficiency, including elimination of interagency duplication of effort; improve information sharing among agencies and understanding of respective agency roles and responsibilities; promote coordination with State agencies with expertise and responsibilities related to Federal oil and gas permitting decisions; promote responsible stewardship of Federal oil and gas resources; maintain high standards of safety and environmental protection; and enhance the benefits to Federal permitting already occurring as a result of a coordinated and timely interagency process for oil and gas permit review for certain Federal oil and gas leases.