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Transcript: RICHARDSON LAUNCHES EFFORT TO BRING ON-LINE PERMIT PROCESS TO OIL INDUSTRY PILOT PROGRAM WITH TEXAS RAILROAD COMMISSION COULD LEAD TO
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- Regulatory Intelligence Data
- Article date:
- February 19, 1999
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Energy Secretary Bill Richardson today set into motion a
pilot
program in Texas that would replace
reams of paper forms with a cost-saving, on-line digital
processing system.
"We are taking the first step toward a paperless regulatory
process in the oil industry," Richardson
said. "This is an initiative that, in a short time, could
save
both the oil industry and regulatory
agencies millions of dollars and countless hours of labor."
If the on-line approach is successful, an oil producer
might
soon be able to sit down before a
computer terminal connected to the Internet, fill out an ...