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Appendix A: Statement of Task
Pages 55-55

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... requirement in the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act. As the committee develops options, it will review those options and issues that BSEE itself already is considering; examples of which include the feasibility and appropriateness of establishing a formal industry committee to make BAST determinations about new and improved technologies; whether it will need to develop test protocols for every technology it evaluates in order to fairly compare competing technologies; how to determine economic feasibility in a manner that is independent of industry; whether it should rely on the development of consensus standards; and whether it should initiate a more vigorous process with various possible improvements to blowout preventers.
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  • initial meeting
  • shelf lands
  • implement bast
  • determine economic
  • consensus standards

  • industry committee
  • brief report
  • lands act
  • third parties
  • economic feasibility

  • blowout preventers
  • specific bast
  • implementation approach
  • existing bsee
  • fairly compare

  • continental shelf
  • bast determinations
  • compare competing
  • bast implementation
  • neutral third

  • test protocols
  • bsee proposals
  • outer continental
  • ops options
  • formal industry

  • report commenting
  • potential role
  • improved technologies
  • develop test
  • committee develops


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