Automated Fluid Minerals Support System

(AFMSS)

Electronic Commerce ‑ Course 3000‑90

A Telecast Originating from the BLM National Training Center

June 29th, 2000

This transcript is from the closed-captioning file produced during the
telecast.

It may contain errors and omissions in transcription.

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Announcer: the Bureau of Land Management Satellite Network Presents
Live, from the BLM National Training Center in Phoenix, Arizona, Course
3090, Automated Fluid Minerals Support System Resource. For Those Who
Bureau the Minerals and Gas Program. And Now, the Host of Your Program,
Paul Brown.

P. Brown: Good Morning, Everyone. Welcome to Our First AFMSS Electronic
Commerce Telecast. It Is a Great Pleasure to Be Here Today and We
Appreciate You Taking Time out of Your Busy Schedules to Join Us. We
Hope That Today\'s Broadcast Will Be Informative and Interesting and
Maybe Just a Little Bit Entertaining. Today We\'ll Discuss One of the
Most Exciting Developments in Automation Support of the Oil And Gas
Program since the Creation of Automated Oil and Gas Production Reports.
The Purpose of this Telecast Is To Provide an Interactive Opportunity
for Us to Tell You About How AFMSS Ec Has Provided Field Offices with a
New Tool For the Oil and Gas Program. This Tool Should Not Only Benefit
BLM Field Offices but The Industry That We Regulate. You Will See Today
How Oil and Gas Operators Can Submit and BLM Can Process Notice of
Staking, Application for Permit to Drill, Well Completion Reports and
Sundry Notices Including the Attachments to Each of These Bureau Forms.
Our Presentation Today Is Specifically Geared Towards All BLM Oil and
Gas Operations Personnel Who Are Involved with Receiving, Approving or
Processing These Forms and the Inspection Personnel Required to Inspect
for Compliance Against Those Approvals. We Invite Other Resource
Specialists to View this Program As Well as Well as the AFMSS Ec Efforts
Have Potential Application to Other Bureau Programs. It Is Imperative
That Field Office Managers Participate in This Telecast as Well. Because
Management Involvement And Awareness Is Vital to a Successful Business
Effort. This Point Cannot Be Stressed Enough. Before We Begin, I Would
like to Introduce Our Panel Members for Today. We\'re Very Fortunate to
Have These Individuals Here. They Are People Who Many of You Have Talked
to and Have Known For Years. Among the Four of Us, We Have Over 70 Years
of Combined Oil And Gas Automation Experience. Joining Me Today from
Wheatridge, Colorado Is, Gene Thibodeau of Office Technology Systems.
Also Known as Ots. Gene Is a Former Bureau Employee And Was One of the
Programmers Who Developed and Supported the Precursor to AFMSS, Airs and
Mro. Good Morning, Gene.

G. Thibodeau: Good Morning, Paul. It Is a Pleasure to Have a Chance to
Participate in this Broadcast.

P. Brown: Great. Good to See You Here this Morning. Also Joining Us from
Ots Is Linda Christensen. Linda Has Been Working on a Number AFMSS
Efforts for the Last Three Years. Good Morning, Linda.

L. Christensen: Good Morning, Paul. Glad to Be Here.

G. Thibodeau: Completing Our Panel Today Is James Haerter From Our
Bakersfield Field Office in California. Jim Is a Petroleum Geologist and
Has Been with the Bureau for Over Seven Years. He Also Serves as the
AFMSS User Group Chairman, the California User Group Representative and
Has Been Involved in the Ec Initiative since its Early Stages. Good
Morning, Jim.

J. Haerter: Thanks, Paul. It Is a Pleasure to Be Here. This Effort Is a
Culmination of A Lot of Hard Work and I\'m Anxious to Get Started.

P. Brown: Great. Before We Get Started with Our First Segment, I Would
like to Remind Each of the Downlink Coordinators to Have All Their
Viewers Sign the Roster Developed for this Broadcast. And Fax it into
the NTC During One of Our Breaks. The Roster Can Be Found in Your Viewer
Packet. Or You Can Use the NTC\'s Electronic Reporting System at The
Center\'s Website\...

P. Brown: Oh, Speaking of the Viewer Packet, We\'ll Be Making Reference
to it Often During Our Presentations. It Is Important That Each Viewer
Have a Copy of the Packet to Refer to During the Second Section of Our
Broadcast. During the Last Portion of Our Broadcast, We Want to Hear
from You. For Our Time to Be Successful Here, We Need Your Active
Participation. You\'ll Be Able to Communicate With Us by Fax. You May
Send Your Faxes at Any Time During the Broadcast. In the Second Half of
the Broadcast, We\'ll Open the Telephones for an Informal He Question
and Answer Session. Since We Would like to Talk to You Directly, We\'ll
Go to Calls First and Then Reply to Fax Questions. We\'ll Attempt to
Answer Your He Questions as Fast as We Can or Provide a Reply after the
Broadcast Is Completed. A Fax Form Is Also Provided in Your Viewer
Packet for this Program. For Your Use in Sending Us Comments or
Questions. To Help Speed up the Process, Please, Fax Covers Are Not
Needed. Also Included in Your Viewer Packet Is an Evaluation Form. We
Will Be Asking for Your Evaluation of the Broadcast Since Your Feedback
Is Important To Make Sure We\'re Meeting Your Needs During this and
Future Broadcasts. With That out of the Way, I Would like Our Associates
at Ots Is Start Us Off. Gene?

G. Thibodeau: I Was Chosen to Do the History Part of this Broadcast and
I Think the Reason Is Because of My Age. I Am the Oldest One on the
Panel. But I Did Want to Also Make it Clear That When Paul Said That
There Were 70 Years of Experience at this Table, It\'s Not One for
Linda, One for Jim, One for Paul and 67 for Me. It Is Divided up a
Little Better Than That Around the Table. Back in 1985, I Talked to Joe
Chester Briefly about a Vision He Had and That Was When We Started the
Airs Mro Program and He Was Talking about Putting Together Some Sort of
a System Whereby Oil Companies Would Be Able to Do Their Permitting
Without Using the Mail and Without Using Paper but He Had No Idea How
this Could Come About. So, We Talked a Little Bit about That Vision and
I Think Today That Vision Has Come True. Just to Let You Know How Long
Ago That Really Was, Back in Those Days, Everyone Was Wearing Longhair
and Today They\'re Longing for Hair. Another Thing That They Were
Dealing with Were Kegs. Today We Still Deal with the Same Letters in a
Different Sequence. It\'s Ekg Today. It Used to Be What You Wanted to Do
Was Get out to a New Hip Joint. Not Today. Today We Need to Get a New
Hip Joint. Then, Everyone Was Talking about The Rolling Stones, of
Course. But Today, Well, We Are Talking About Kidney Stones. All Kidding
Aside Though, Joe Got in Touch with a Fella by the Name of Dirshell Lacy
and They Decided That this Could Probably Really Happen. There Was a
Fellow in ‑‑ the Chief at Simon & Shuster in New York. His Name Is
Michael Korda and He Said, \"In Order to Succeed, We Must First Believe
That We Can.\" And I Think That\'s What Joe and Dirshell Were About.
Then Another Fella Joined Them And Between the Three of Them, They Kind
of Set out a Plan as To What They Had to Do. They Involved Bill and Jim
from Wyoming and They Also Involved Bill Vanmeter and Marty Bright From
Ots as Technical People. And They Decided That What They Really Had to
Do Was First of All Get in Touch with Some of The Agencies and
Organizations Around the Country That Knew About this Stuff Called Ec or
Electronic Commerce. So, First of All, They Contacted An Outfit by the
Name of the Petroleum Industry Data Exchange, Pidx. The Pidx Mission Is
to Educate And Encourage Energy Industry Companies, Customers, Suppliers
And Other Trading Partners to Apply Resources Towards the Effective
Implementation and Utilization of Edi and Other Related Technologies.
Another Organization They Contacted Was Disa. Data Interchange Standards
Association. And Disa Is the Foremost Association for Electronic
Commerce. It Is a Not for Profit Organization That Offers a Variety of
Outreach Initiatives And Extensive Educational Programs for Every Ec
Endeavor. And Finally, They Contacted the American National Standards
Institute Commonly Known as Ansi. Ansi Is a Nonprofit Membership
Organization Which Has for More Than 80 Years, Facilitated the
Development of National Standards Using Consensus, Due Process, and
Openness. Now, Just to Let You Know That It Really Was Not Magic. These
Four People Spent Countless Hours in Meetings with These Organizations
to Develop Requirements and to Develop a Standard That Would Carry Us
Into this Whole Process. People Ask Why Have a Standard? Well, I Think
That a Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words in this Case. And the Purpose
of Having a Standard I Think Is Rather Obvious When You Check out That
Graphic That\'s up on the Screen Right Now. So, We Got to the Point
Where We Said Ok, We Better Put this Whole Thing Together Now and it Was
Turned over to Bill Vanmeter Who Was the Most Technically Knowledgeable
Person about the Website. It Was Decided That We Would Do The Permitting
via the Web So in Late 1997, Everybody Went to Bill and Said Carry On,
Bill! Write this Program and Bill Said \"Wait a Minute!\" What Is Ec? I
Don\'t Have Any Requirements. We Said Yeah, You Have a Good Point, Bill.
We Probably Should Put Something Together So You Know What the
Requirements Are and What You\'re Supposed to Be Doing. Well, We Felt
That the People That Should Do That Were Going To Be the People That
Used the System. So, We Got in Touch with Several BLM People and We
Formed What We Called an Ec Validation Committee. Now, Those Folks Got
Together in Salt Lake City and Tried to Define These Requirements and I
Have a Hard Time Remembering What Went on There. So, I Think I\'m Going
to Turn to Linda and Have Her Explain to Us What Went on in That Salt
Lake City Meeting. Linda?

L. Christensen: Ok, Gene. When the Ec Validation Committee Met in Salt
Lake City in January Of 1998, I Honestly Think None Of Us in the Room
Knew What We Were Going to End up with When We Finished There. We Had
Been Charged with Defining the Requirements for an Electronic Commerce
Front End to AFMSS but We Weren\'t Too Sure What That Meant. All We Knew
Was That the Decision Had Had Been Made to Start with the Apd Cover
Sheet And That We Needed an Internet‑based Data Entry Front End for the
Operators to Use. We Spent Two Very Busy Days Trying to Envision How All
of This Was Actually Going to Work. It Was at That Meeting That All The
Basic Concepts for AFMSS Electronic Commerce Were Worked Out. The Team
Outlined the Layout and The Flow of the Web‑based Data Entry Forms That
the Operators Are Using Today and the Concept Of the Electronic Commerce
Reviewer Was Born There as a Gatekeeper Function. So That We Would Have
Someone Making Sure That it Was Only Good Data That Got into the AFMSS
Databases. And We Decided to Implement That Using Special Ec Data
Holding Tables in Each Data Base. The Team Also Decided That We Needed
to Maintain Exactly What The Operator Had Submitted and Keep All the BLM
Revisions Separate from That Data. Really Though, as a Group, We
Struggled with Exactly How this Was Going to Work and Tried to Envision
a Way to Make it as Flexible as Possible for All the Offices to
Implement in Their Own Way. At the End of the Meeting, I Think There
Were Still a Few Folks Who Thought this Is Never Going to Work but I\'m
Happy to Say We Came up with Really Good Ideas There. Framework Seems
Solid and Everything Is Progressing Very Nicely Built on That
Foundation. That\'s about It, Gene.

G. Thibodeau: Thanks, Linda. We Continued to Refine the Requirements a
Bit and Bill Began to Actually Build the Web Screens and the Input
Screens For the Operators at That Point In Time. We Scheduled Our First
Release Of the Ec Input Forms to Be in August or September of 1999. And
at That Point in Time, Everything Was Set. We Were Going to Do the Apd
Cover Sheet. And Then in June, I Got a Call From Bob Hartman in Buffalo
Field Office and He Asked Me If There Was Any Way That We Could Help Him
out Because They Were Anticipating Literally Thousands Of Apds to Have
to Process Before the End of That Year of 1999. So, We Talked it over
and Came Up with a Plan to Accelerate That Whole Functionality and Try
To Get it in Buffalo as a Pilot In August Which We Accomplished. We
Actually Processed over 900 Apds in about Six Weeks. I Thought
Everything Went Beautiful. I Saw No Problems. I Was Just Really Happy
with the Whole Thing. But Then Linda Told Me There Were a Few Problems
Here and There. And I Would like to Let Her Kind Of Tell Us about Those
Just a Little Bit.

L. Christensen: Well, a Few Problems Here and There Is an
Understatement. When the Buffalo Pilot Started, We Hit a Lot of Rough
Spots Immediately. There Were Software Bugs and Hardware Problems
Primarily Due To Their Old Boxes That Were Pretty Slow. We Also Had Data
Problems. The Permitting Agent We Were Working With, Greystone, Opted
Not to Use Our Web‑based Data Entry Forms and They Sent Us All Of Their
Data in Excel Spreadsheets and That Allowed Some Data to Bypass Our
Process And Some Bad Data Made it as Far As Ec Holding Tables. D.j. Was
Our Main Contact for This Project and I Have to Say She Was Great in the
Middle of This Chaos. Rather than Getting Mad and Giving up on Us, She
Worked with Us to Try to Fix the Problems. Fortunately the Hardware
Problems Went Away When They Got Their New Windows Nt‑based Pcs And the
Data Problems Were Reduced When We Were Able to Develop a Program to
Scrub the Data We Were Getting from Greystone Before it Went to the
Buffalo Database and the Software Problems Were Fixed Over Time and I
Think D.j. in April Had to Put up with New Releases of the Software a
Couple Times a Week While We Got The Bugs Fixed for Them. But D.j. and
Kathy Riggleman Gave Us Lots of Great Ideas and We Were Able to
Incorporate the Changes into the Software, Most In Time to Benefit Them
as They Were Trying to Get Through this Big Pile of Apds. But There\'s
No Getting Around It. First Few Weeks of the Buffalo Pilot Were Very
Difficult for All Concerned. Buffalo Was Getting Clobbered From All
Sides by this Onslaught Of Methane Apds and I Wondered If the Electronic
Commerce Was Helping or Hurting Them Because We Were Adding to the Chaos
and Confusion They Were Experiencing. D.j. and Kathy Did a Great Job Of
Working with Us and Trying to Develop New Business Processes So They
Could Incorporate the Electronic Commerce Data into Their Apd Process
and I Really Think it Was Their Patience and Terrific Attitudes That
Made the Electronic Commerce Pilot up There a Success. Gene?

G. Thibodeau: Before We Go On, I Would like to Take a Second To Send a
Special Thank You to The People Involved in That Whole Process. Their
Patience and Endurance Really Made it Work for Us. And I Would like to
Thank Dennis, Bob, D.j. and April in Buffalo. And Bill, Cathy, and
Shelley in New Castle. As We Go on and Transfer Kind of From the Test
Stage of Ec Commerce and Go into Actual Production, I Think Jim Knows a
Whole Lot More about How this Is Going and What\'s Happening, the Type
of Permits, That Type of Stuff So I\'ll Turn it over to Jim and Let Him
Carry On.

J. Haerter: Thank You Very Much, Gene. I\'m Not Sure That I Can Live up
To Those Expectations but I\'ll Try. Since the AFMSS Software Was
Upgraded to Version 2.1 this Past Spring, All BLM Offices Are Now Able
to Accept Electronic Versions of Permits for Oil and Gas Operations.
Paul Talked a Bit about the Permits and Highlighted Them at The Top of
the Program. Once the Proper Arrangements Have Been Made, Operators Can
Log on to the Ec Home Page to Complete Notices of Staking, Apds with
Supporting Attachments, Well Completion Reports and Sundry Notice Forms.
In this Case, Sundries Can Be Submitted Either as Notices of Intent,
Nois or as Subsequent Reports. Permits Can Also Be Filed for One or More
Wells and Additional Facilities as Well. The Primary Objective of the Ec
Effort Has Been to Improve and Streamline the Permitting Process.
That\'s the Bottom Line. Three Main Points Describe That Emphasis.
Minimizing the Amount of Data That Our Staff Needs to Input to AFMSS.
That\'s Really Critical. Because If Your Staff Is like Ours in
Bakersfield, a Big Part Of the Workload These Days Is Transferring the
Information That Comes in on Paper Permits Into the AFMSS Database.
Improving the Accuracy of the Data That We Need to Process the Permits
Is Almost as Important. And Finally, Improving the Quality of Service
That We Provide to Our Customers Is Perhaps Most Important of All. As
Field Offices Establish Their Own Procedures, and as More Operators
Begin Submitting Electronic Permits, We Expect That the Process That
Linda and Gene Described in Wyoming Will Continue to Happen. Ec Has and
Will Continue to Evolve Based on Input from Our Customers. Internal to
BLM, Suggestions and Constructive Comments Can Be Submitted Through Your
Local Application Administer it or to The Help Desk. Suggestions from
External Customers Are Welcome on the Ec Website. Paul, I Understand
That You\'ve Been Known to Be Willing to Talk With an Operator or Two on
the Phone as Well.

P. Brown: Yes. We Would Be Glad to Discuss Any Changes to the AFMSS
System Whether We\'re Talking about Internal Customers or External
Customers at Any Point. One of the Things I Would like To Point Out,
Early on in Our Design Process, the Issue of Security of the Data Came
up on A Very Regular Basis. It Was a Major Design That We Made Sure We
Protected the Integrity of the AFMSS Data at All Costs. That We Did Not
Want to Have Any Direct Data Entry into the AFMSS System by the
Operators Who Were Submitting the Electronic Submissions. It Was
Important That We Set up A Gatekeeper Function Through The Ecr Reviewer
Individual That Basically Allowed or Did Not Allow Data to Get into the
AFMSS System until BLM Was Ready to Accept It. The AFMSS Ec Reviewer
Individual Is the Gatekeeper AFMSS When it Comes to Electronic
Submissions From the Operator. Those Operators\' Submissions Really
Aren\'t Considered Real AFMSS Data and Aren\'t Made Real AFMSS Data
until the Ec Reviewer Says So. The next Question Is How Do Operators Get
Started? I Guess the Simple Process Is Basically Pick up the Phone and
Give Me a Call. They Can Call the AFMSS Project Office. The Number Will
Be Displayed There on Your Screen. The AFMSS Project Office or the Help
Desk Which Is the Second Number You See There. The Other Item That They
Can Do Is Send Me an E‑mail Message Requesting That That Be Initiated.
E‑mail Messages Can Be Sent to Me at Pbrown@sc.BLM.gov. Also on the
First Three Pages of Your Viewer Packet, You\'ll See Some Information
Outlining How Operators Can Get Started with On‑line Registration
Log‑ins, Passwords, et Cetera. These First Three Pages in Your Viewer
Packet Could Be Used as Doing Outreach for Operators in Your Area.
Basically Copy Those First Three Pages and You Can Use Them as a Handout
in Your Meetings. The Third Way That the Operators Can Initiate this Is
Through On‑line Registration. We\'ll Look at That a Little Bit More
Later. Once an Operator Submits a Request for a Log‑in and a Password,
We\'ll Start the Trading Partner Agreement Process or the Tpa. We\'ll
Talk about That a Little Bit Later and There\'s More Information in Your
Viewer Packet. Ok. Let\'s See. Probably the next Item We Need To Cover
Is What Kind of Hardware or Software Requirements an Operator Would Need
to File an Electronic Submission. Linda, Can You Talk to Us about That?

L. Christensen: Sure, Paul. One of the Mandates That We Had When We
Started the Requirements Definition for the Project Was That it Had to
Be Inexpensive For the Operators to Implement The Electronic Commerce.
So, We Decided to Use Internet‑based Data Entry Screens and Plenty of
Free Software That the Operators Could Just Download off the Web For
Themselves. The Requirements for the Hardware That an Operator Needs Are
Quite Simple. All They Need Is a Pc and a Fast And Reliable Internet
Connection. And So the Minimum Internet Connection Speed That We
Recommend Is about 56k and That\'s Primarily File Uploads So The
Transfer Times Are Much Faster. The Software Requirements Are Equally
Simple. They Need to Have a Web Browser And it Needs to Be Microsoft
Internet Explorer Version 4.0 4 Or Higher. Or Netscape Navigator 4.0 4
or Higher. The Versions We\'re Specifying Here Are at Least a Year Old
So This Is Not Something They\'re Going to Have to Upgrade Immediately
in Order to Use Electronic Commerce. They Also Will Need Adobe Acrobat
Reader in Order to Be Able to View and Print the Attachments They Send
to the BLM. So, All of this Information Is Contained in Your Viewer
Packet And it Starts on Page 2. This Is Actually a Handout That We Used
at an Operator Outreach Meeting in Vernal. And So Feel Free to Make
Copies Of That and Give it to Your Operators So They\'ll Get a Little
Bit More Information About What They Would Need to Get Started with
Electronic Commerce and it Also Answers Some of the Frequently‑asked
Questions for Them and Things Like That. That\'s on Page 2 in Your
Viewer Packet. So, Feel Free to Use That If You Need To.

G. Thibodeau: Linda, Let Me Make a Point. This Software Is All Available
On the Internet and it Is Free For Downloading.

L. Christensen: That\'s Right. I Forgot to Mention That. We Do Have
Links on Our Well Information System Website That Would Take Them to the
Websites Where They Can Download Netscape Navigator, Adobe Acrobat
Reader Or Internet Explorer and it Is Free. Good Point, Gene.

P. Brown: I Think We\'ve Got Everybody\'s Attention by The Fact That
this Is Free. I like That.

L. Christensen: Free Is Good.

P. Brown: Free Is Good. Ok. I Guess One of the Other Issues We Heard
about Quite a Bit When We Were First Doing Our Design Was the Issue of
Electronic Signatures a Lot of People Ask What\'s an Electronic
Signature And How Do We Have to Use It? What Are the Requirements There?
I Don\'t Understand Electronic Signatures Very Well So I\'m Going to
Turn the Time over to Jim and He\'s Going to Talk to Us About Electronic
Signatures and What They Are and How They Work. Jim?

J. Haerter: Thanks, Paul. That Term Is Really a Misnomer. It Doesn\'t
Involve a Physical Signature at All. In Computer Terms, an Electronic
Signature Is Simply a Way to Check the Authenticity of a User A Way to
Make Sure Our System Knows Who the User Is and on Whose Behalf They\'re
Submitting The Information. Now, Bureau Im 99‑142 Distributed Proposed
Federal Regulations Which Require Agencies to Accept Electronic
Documents and Signatures and Provide for Electronic Record Keeping Prior
to Fiscal Year 2003. An AFMSS Ec, We\'re Well Ahead of The Curve. Each
User Is Assigned a Unique Log‑in I.d. And a Password. The Log‑in I.d.
And Password Represent Their Electronic Signature. Each Request must Be
Approved by The BLM. The Tpa That You Referred to a Little Bit Earlier.
And Care Is Taken to Ensure the Individual Should Truly Be Allowed to
Use the Permitting System. We Ask Users Not to Reveal Their Information
to Anyone Else Because When They Log In, They\'re Authorized to
Represent The Operator. An AFMSS Ec, an Electronic Signature Is Not the
Image of a Signature Stored in the Computer. It Is the Unique
Combination of I.d. And Password. Which Makes Sure the User Is Genuine.
Right Now, the Viewers Are Looking at an Example Hard Copy Of an
Electronic Form. The Text, Directly above the Signature Line, Lets You
Know That this Form Was Received Electronically. That Text Is Your Queue
That You Can Accept this Document for Your Records Even Without a
Physical Signature. Every User Has Been Authenticated So You Can Feel
Comfortable That Their Electronic Permit Is Legitimate. Paul?

P. Brown: Thanks, Jim. Well, I Guess We\'ve Covered the What Quite
Extensively of Electronic Commerce. I Guess the next Question Is How Do
Operators Get Started? Gene, Wonder If You Could Talk To Us about How
Operators Start The Submission Process.

G. Thibodeau: You Bet. We\'ve Had a Lot of Questions About What the
Operator Actually Sees Because So Many People in BLM Don\'t Actually See
That. It Is an Operator Function. But You Can Go to Our Website And Look
at It. We\'ll Have the Address of That Website in a Minute Here. But
When You Get There, There Are Going to Be Eight Options of Things That
You Can Do. The First Seven Anyone Can Do Them. Anyone Can Go Look at
These Things. So, We\'ll Start off with Reading The Latest Wis
Announcements. What We Do There Is We Simply Keep Everyone Involved as
to What\'s Going on with the Ec Commerce Stuff and the Well Information
System. We Put Things like New Functionality If We Ever Had a New Form,
We Would Put That out There. That\'s the Kind of Stuff That We Do There.
The next Thing You Could Do Is You Could Actually Send an E‑mail and You
Can Send an E‑mail about the Wis Website or About E Commerce or about
Anything and I Don\'t Care How Many E‑mails I Send and I Don\'t Care
What They Say Because They All Go to Mr. Brown. And He Enjoys Getting
E‑mail So, You Know, Whatever You Like. The next Thing Is That You Can
Read the Frequently Asked Questions and Answers. And We Did Have Enough
Foresight To Put the Answers to the Questions out There So You Have ‑‑
and Usually What We Do Is These Are Questions That Have Been Asked More
than Once. So, They\'re Things That Everyone Needs to Know. The next
Option That You Have on That Menu Is You Can Look at the Specific Pc
Requirements and Software Requirements for Using Wis. Linda Just Covered
That and Basically What She Said Is What We Have out There but it Allows
The Operator to Go Look at That Stuff Any Time He Wants To. Then the
next Option on That Menu Is the \"How To\" Guides for Nos, Apd, Well
Completion and Sundry. Now, If You Were to Actually Click on That \"How
To\" Button Right Now out There, What You Would See Is the Screen
You\'re Looking at and it Says Coming Soon! We Anticipate Having Those
Little How to Guides out There Sometime in September, October. We Need
to Get the next Release AFMSS out Before We Can Work on Those. So,
That\'s Kind of Where That Is. Then We Have a List of People You Can
Contact for More Information on the Wis. There\'s Two People on It. The
Purpose of the First Contact Which Is Paul Brown, If You Have Procedure
Questions, BLM Type Questions, Data Questions, Those Kind of Things, You
Can Call Paul. His Name and Address and E‑mail Address Are All out
There. Then, If You Have Technical Problems or Problems with the
Browser, You Can\'t Get One Downloaded, Any Technical Kind Of Stuff, You
Call Bill at the Ots Office and His Name and Address and E‑mail Address
Are All out There Also. Then the Last One That Anyone Can Really Go Look
at That Has No Restrictions on it Is a Request for User Account. And
What this Requires Is We Ask Name and Address of an Oil Company or
Anyone That Wants to Get an Account on the Wis Server To Be Able to
Submit Forms. There\'s Just a Whole Bunch of Information That We Need.
One of the Key Things That We Do There Is We Allow That User to Choose
Their Own Password and User I.d. And We Do That Hopefully So That They
Will Remember it and We Won\'t Have to Try to Figure out What They Did
When They Forget It. If They Do Forget It, Can\'t Get In, Something They
Can Always Call Bill and He Can Perform Some Sort of Magic and Figure it
Out and He\'ll Get Them Back on Track. The Actual Address Where You Can
Go and Take a Look at All of This Stuff Is Www.otshq.com. And You Can Go
out There Any Time, Take a Look at That Stuff And Enjoy Yourself. Have
Fun. Then the Last Choice on That Menu Is to Actually Log on to The Wis.
You Can Only Do this If You\'ve Already Had a Password and a User I.d.
Set up for Yourself. So, That\'s Why I Say the First Seven Anyone Can
Do. Now We Get into the Actual Approved Operators and the Things That
They Can Do. Once They Get out There, They Can Do a Couple of Things.
They Can Always ‑‑ Well, First Of All, If They Get the Wrong I.d. Or
Password or User Name, Then They Have Choices like Going Back to the
Menu, Trying It Again. They Are Not Locked out after Three Times So They
Could Try it Over and over and Over. Eventually Probably What They Would
Want to Do Is Call Bill. Once They Do Get on and Get Signed on and Press
the Submit Button and Everything Is Successful, They Have Several ‑‑
Four Basic Things That They Can Do and That Is Submit the Permits We\'ve
Been Talking About. First of All, If They Go to Submit Notice of Staking
and When They Get to the Notice of Staking, Their Input Screen Starts
out like You See on the Monitor There. And You\'ll Notice down on the
Bottom, There Are Some Fields That Are Prefilled. That\'s the
Information That We Already Know. And Then If You Go on down in The
Input Form and I\'m Not Going To Go Through the Whole Form. I\'m Just
Going to Give You a Flavor of What Happens, All of These Input Forms Are
Chopped up In Segments like You See Here And You See Lease and Agreement
Segment up on the Screen There. And Then You\'ll See Four Fields. The
First Two Are in Black. The Headings Are Black. And They\'re Followed by
an Asterisk. This Indicates Mandatory Fields On the Input Forms. The
next Two You\'ll Notice Are Blue and That Indicates Optional Fields on
the Input Forms. But It\'s Very Key That You Understand That These Forms
Are Laid out in Segments. Lease Agreement Segment, for Example. There\'s
a Well Information Segment, for Example. And So On. And They Can ‑‑ the
Options Are Out There to File the Apd, the Well Completion and the
Sundry Notice All Basically Work the Same. So, I\'m Not Going to Really
Go Into Those.

P. Brown: Gene?

G. Thibodeau: Yes?

P. Brown: I Wonder If I Could Interrupt and Ask a Question about
Something That Went by Quickly. At One Point, Could We Have the
Capability, If a User in the Field and BLM Offices Just Wanted to Get in
and Test to See How this Website Worked from the Operator\'s Side. Do We
Have the Capability to Set A Test User up in a Test Database So They\'re
Not Actually Submitting Real Data and Not Messing Us Up?

L. Christensen: Yeah, Paul, As a Matter of Fact, There Is a Way. This Is
a Test I.d. We Have Set Up and a Number of Folks Within The BLM Have
Used It. And this Is Highly Secret Information So Don\'t Divulge This to
the General Public. But the I.d. Is Test in Little Letters and the
Password Is 1234 But Don\'t Tell Anybody! But If You Go in with That
I.d., You\'ll Be Automobile to Go in And See the Operator Screens for
Yourselves. Gene Had a Slide of the Very Top Of the Notice of Staking
Screen And the Rest of the Screen Looks Pretty Much like That Just Lots
Of Data Entry Fields. But If You\'re Curious, You Can Use That Highly
Secret Access Code Test, 1234.

Ok. That Might Be a Good Opportunity For the People in the Field to Get
Familiar with What the Operators Are Seeing on the Website So They Can
Kind of Sell It a Little Bit and Also Maybe Walk Operators Through If
They\'re Having Problems. Excellent. Gene, Bring it Back to You.

G. Thibodeau: I Would First Of All like to Thank Linda For Answering My
Question.

L. Christensen: No Extra Charge.

G. Thibodeau: Great. Next, I Would like to Talk about A Series of
Buttons That Are Found at the Bottom of Each and Every One of These
Forms. And They\'re All Exactly the Same. They Go Across ‑‑ the Only
Difference Will Be on Some of The Forms They Have the Actual Name of the
Form like ‑‑ it Will Say Sundry Notice or it Will Say Well Completion
Report and So On. The First Button over on the Left Is the Return to
Operator Main Menu Button. And I Think That\'s Pretty Obvious. It Just
Takes You Right Back to That Main Menu Where You Can Choose the Forms
That You Want To Submit. The next Button Which Is the Save Work Button,
Is Really My Favorite, I Think. This Gives the Operator an Opportunity
to Partially Complete One of the Forms. The Well Completion Is a Perfect
Example Because It\'s the Longest. They Can Partially Complete this
Form. The Phone Rings. They Get Tied Up. They\'ll Have to Leave. They
Have to Do Something Else. Whatever. Perhaps It\'s Time to Go Home and
They Just Are Going to Pack up And Leave. They Can Hit That Save Work
Button and it Will Keep Everything, All of the Work They\'ve Done, So
That They Can Come Back at a Later Time and Complete What They Were
Doing. I Think It\'s a Great Function And it Does a Lot of Good for The
Operators. The next Button Is Actually the Submit Button. And this
Allows You to ‑‑ and it Says Submit Whatever the Form Is. This, When the
Operator Presses That, All of the Validation That We Do on All of the
Fields Here, For Example, Looking for Mandatory Fields and That Sort Of
Stuff, Happens and If Everything Passes, Then That Sends this
Transaction on its Way to the BLM Office. It Has a Few Steps to Go
Through Before it Gets There but Now It\'s on the Way. Then the next
Button, If the Operator Is Working on this Thing and the Boss Comes up
and Looks at Them and Says You Got That All Messed Up. This Is Not the
Right Anything On Here. This Button Will Completely Clear All the Data
That They\'ve Entered and it Allows Them to Start Over. Again, it
Probably Doesn\'t Happen Very Often but When You Need It, It\'s Really
Handy. Then If You\'ll Notice Clear over On the Right‑hand Side, There
Is ‑‑ It\'s Not Really a Button. It Is a Pick List and it Says Jump to a
Section of the Form. And If You Recall, When We Had The Leasing
Agreement Form up There, That Was a Section of the Form. Well
Information Would Be a Section of the Form and So On. And it Will
Actually Give You a List and You Can Go down That List and Pick the One
That You Want. And Go Directly to That Part of The Form. Without Having
to Scroll Through All of That Stuff. So, Again, That\'s Pretty Handy.
The next Logical Thing That an Operator Can Do Is He Might Want To Go
Back in and Check Some of The Previously Filed Transactions That He\'s
Done. Now, I Realize this Is a Little Difficult for You to Read but
It\'s Basically Just a List of All of the Transactions That That
Operator Has Filed. And They\'re Only His. He Cannot See Anyone Else\'s.
Because That Is So Difficult to Read, I\'m Going to Go Ahead and Tell
You What Each of the Columns Are Just So You Know What\'s There. The
First Column Starting on the Left Is the I.d. Number. And That Is
Actually a Number That the System Uses to Control And to Identify Each
Transaction As a Unique Transaction. You\'ll See These Numbers Later On
When Linda Talks about Actually Getting into AFMSS with This Data. The
next Column Is the Sent Date. And That Is, in Fact, the Date That the
Operator Sent this Form To the BLM. It Is Filled in by the System. They
Don\'t Have to Type it In. And Away it Goes. That\'s All There Is to It.
The next Column Is the Office. And this Is the Office to Which This
Transaction Was Sent. Simple Enough. Basically, That\'s All There Is To
That. The next Column Is the Type of Transaction. And There Are Four
Types. I\'m Sure You\'re Going to Recognize Them by Now. There\'s Nos,
Apd, Wc and Sn. I\'m Sure You Can Realize What Those All Are. The next
Column Has a Little More Information in it Even Though it Doesn\'t Look
like It. It Is the Status. And These Statuses Are Very Important to the
Operator Because it Is the Beginning of How He Can Track His
Transaction. The First Status That I Would Like to Talk about Is
Received. What That Means Is the Operator Has Hit the Submit Key and the
Transaction Has Gone to the Wis Server and it Has Been Received On the
Wis Server and There it Sits. The next Transaction That I Would like to
Talk about Is Pend. It Really Stands for Pending but What it Means Is
That Transaction Has Now Been Sent From the Wis Server to the
Appropriate Database. And it Is Now Awaiting the BLM People, You Folks,
to Do Your Magic and Take Care of this Transaction and Do Whatever You
Do with It. These Pending Transactions at Present Are Going to Be Sent
at 6:00 A.m. and at 12 Noon So Twice a Day. We\'ll Get into Later on
about How You Can Find What Transactions Are Pending and So That You
Know When They\'re Coming. Then, There Are a Couple of ‑‑ First of All,
Once You See That Transaction, and You Go Ahead And Process and You
Commit it to AFMSS So That All of That Data Has Gone into AFMSS Because
Prior to This, it Was Just Sitting on Your Database in a Holding Table,
Once You Send it To AFMSS, That Status Changes to Commit. Now, There Are
Three Others That I Need to Talk about That Are Just a Little Bit
Different. First of All, There Is a Transfer Status Which Is Really Xfer
and What That Means Is If You Get a Transaction in Your Office That
Really Should Have Gone to Some Other BLM Office, All You Have to Do Is
Hit the Transfer Button and it Will Give You a List of Field Offices.
You Pick the One it Should Have Gone to and the System Will Take Care of
Shooting it to That Office. And it Will Also Notify the Operator That He
Sent it to the Wrong Office So the Operator Knows to Do Any Follow‑up
with The New Office. Then, There Is a Reject. And this Status Is Used If
You Look at this Apd Nos or Whatever It Is and it Is Just a Total
Disaster and it Makes No Sense. Or Whatever Your Procedures Are. But it
Allows You to Reject it Which Means You Send it Back to The Operator
with a Note on it Indicating What the Problems Are. And Then the Last
One Is Draft. And this Is If You Used the Save Work Button. You Got Part
Way Through. It Was Time to Go Home So You Left. You Hit the Save Work
Button. When You Come Back, and Go out And Look at It, it Will Have a
Status of Draft. Ok. That Covers the Statuses. The next Column That I
Want to Talk about Very Briefly Is Case Number. Actually, You Probably
Know More About Case Number than I Do. So, I Don\'t Really Need to Say
Anything about It. Then He We Have the Well Name. Again, I\'m Sure
Everyone\'s Familiar with Well Names. The Well Number. That\'s Next.
Then the Disposition Date. The Disposition Date Is the Date That You
Actually Transferred It, Rejected it or Committed it To AFMSS. And the
Last Column Which Looks A Little Different Is Actually The Number of
Attachments. Here Again, I Think That Is Self‑explanatory. It Just Says
Seven Attachments, One Attachment. Zero Attachments and That\'s All
There Is to It. I Think Linda Knows a Lot More About Attachments than I
Do.

L. Christensen: Thanks, Gene. We Realized Very Early on That We Were
Going to Have to Be Able To Accommodate Attachments in Some Form for
Things Which Are Going to Contain a Drilling Plan, a Surface Use Plan,
Location Plats, Any Number of Things. So, What We Decided to Do Was
Provide the Operator with a Which That He Could Send Us the Electronic
Files That Contain The Documents. He Can Send Us Text Files or Graphics
Files and the Current Formats That We\'re Accepting From Operators for
Text Files Are Microsoft Office Files Which Is Word, Excel and Power
Point. Or Word Perfect. So, If the Operator Has Anything Else, All He
Needs to Do Is Contact Us and We\'ll Try to Accommodate Any Type of File
That We Can. For Graphics Files Which Are Things for Maps and Diagrams,
We\'re Recommending and Sorry I\'m Going to Slip into a Little Bit Of
Geek Speak Here. We Refer to Them by Their File Name Extension. You Have
Gif Files and Jpg Files And Bmp Files. A Graphics Interface File Is the
Smallest of the Three Types of Files That We Can Accept. So We Recommend
to the Operators That\'s the Type They Use Because They\'re Smaller and
They Will Transfer More Quickly to the Well Information Systems Server.
Jpg Files and Bmp Files Are Bitmap Files and They\'ll Be Much Larger
Files So the Transfer Speed Is Going to Be a Little Bit Slower. But as I
Mentioned a Moment Ago, These Are the Types of Files That We Accept Now
and as More Operators Are Coming On‑line, With Electronic Commerce
Submissions, We Are Getting Requests to ‑‑ Especially for Graphics Files
to Be Able to Handle Files Say from Auto Cad And Other Packages That the
Operators Might Use to Generate These Things. So, If Have You Have an
Operator Curious about this and Has Questions, Have Them Contact Us And
We\'ll See If We Can Accommodate Their Additional File Type.

P. Brown: That Was a Little Bit More Geek Speak than I Needed But I\'m
Sure They Can Refer Back To Their Viewer Packet and Get The Information
on Out. We\'ve Talked about the What of Electronic Commerce. And the How
of Electronic Commerce. I Think the next Logical Place To Go Would Be
Why. What Are the Advantages of an Operator in Using Electronic
Commerce? Jim, I Wonder If You Could Talk To Us about That a Little Bit.

J. Haerter: I Would Be Pleased To, Paul. As You Suggests, There Are Many
Advantages to Operators Submitting Permits Electronically. They Keep
Coming up with New Ones All the Time. Perhaps the Most Obvious Benefit
Is the Reduction in Administrative Costs. Administrative Costs That We
Typically Talk about Are Postage, Phone and Fax Costs. Filing the Permit
Electronically Also Eliminates the Need to File Duplicate or Triplicate
Copies Of the Same Permit. The Other Is If Your Office Works like Ours
in Bakersfield, Many Choose to Hand Deliver Their Apds to Bypass the
Post Office Entirely. Not Only Will They Be Able to Submit the Permit
Without Leaving Their Office but They Can Do So 24 Hours a Day, Seven
Days a Week.

P. Brown: That\'s One Important Point That a Office Managers And People
in the Field Need to Be Reminded of Is That BLM Is a 9‑5 Monday Through
Friday Organization and We Regulate an Industry That\'s Basically a 24‑7
Organization and They\'re Doing A Lot of Work on Weekends and This
Electronic Commerce Application Allows Us to Regulate and Serve Our
Customers That Are 24‑7 While We\'re Not.

J. Haerter: Exactly Right. By Filing the Permit via the Ec Website, a
Variety of Help Screens and Format Examples Are Available to the User.
This Means That New Operators And Inexperienced Staff Will Be Less
Likely to Submit Inaccurate Information. Typographical Errors Are the
Bugaboo of Our AFMSS Database as Most of Are You Familiar With. It Is
the Capability of the Information to Retain Well Information from Permit
to Permit. We Have Historical Data over the Life of the Well. And If an
Operator Submits an Nos or an Apd, They Can Retrieve The Basic Well
Information to Fill in the Required Fields on a Well Completion or
Sundry Notice Form. Not Only Will this Save Quite a Bit of Time. It Will
Also Help to Reduce or Eliminate Errors. Last but Not Least, Receiving
The Data in Electronic Form Should Shorten the Time BLM Takes to Process
That Application. More Accurate Applications along With less Staff Time
in the Mailroom Copying and Collating Means the Geologists, Engineer Or
Surface Specialist Sees the Information Much More Quickly to Do the
Permit Approval. Does That Answer Your Question, Paul?

P. Brown: Yes, I Think So. I Think It\'s Important and It\'s A High
Value to Everybody in the BLM to Be Able to Do Their Job a Little Bit
Quicker. A Little Bit More Efficiently And Data Quality Is Probably a
Hot Button for a Lot of Us Here.

L. Christensen: Paul, I Would Like to Interject That Right Now It\'s Not
in the System but Very Soon We\'ll Have the Ability to Inform the
Operators of the Revisions the BLM Has Made to Their Submission. When We
Go Through the Ec Reviewer Screens, You\'ll See This a Little More
Clearly. Before an Application Is Accepted into AFMSS, We Go Through or
the Ec Reviewer Would Go Through a Process Where the Information That
the Operator Submitted Is Matched up with Information in Your AFMSS
Database and Very Soon, We\'ll Have the Feedback Loop in Place. So That
the Operator Will See What AFMSS Thinks or What BLM Thinks Is the Case
Number or What BLM Specifies as the Official Spelling of the Operator\'s
Name and Then They Can Use the Historical Feature That Jim Was Talking
about to Supply the Permit in Absolutely AFMSS Specific Format.

J. Haerter: I Want to Emphasize a Point I Missed. Linda Referred a
Little Bit Earlier in the Broadcast to the Help Screens and the Pulldown
Menus Available. Those Options Won\'t Be Immediately Available but They
Will Shortly after the next Version Release of the Software.

P. Brown: it Sounds like the Users Can Anticipate More Changes,
Improvements in the System Both for Internal Customers And Ex‑ternal
Customers as We Continue to Work on this Process.

L. Christensen: That\'s Right, Paul. This Is an Evolving Software
Product and until People Start Using It, We\'re Not Going to Think of
All the Great Ideas. I No We\'ve Already Received a Number of
Suggestions ‑‑ I Know We\'ve Already Received a Number Of Suggestions
That We\'ve Been Able to Incorporate into the Website and the Ec
Reviewer Software for the BLM Reviewers.

P. Brown: Excellent. We Talked about Security a Little Bit Previously in
Our Broadcast but I Want to Hit That One More Time. Through the Security
Processes That We\'ve Designed into the System, Once Again, You Need to
Be Reminded That Only the Ec Reviewer Individual Allows Entry Of the
Operator\'s Submitted Data Into the AFMSS System. Operators\'
Submissions Are Not Valid or Real Data until the Ec Reviewer Puts That
Information In. Operator Submissions Are Held Outside the AFMSS Database
Until, Again, the Ec Reviewer Individual Says That Those Operators\'
Submissions Can Enter The Database. BLM Is Only Looking at the Data That
the Operator Submits Through a Web Browser So They Can\'t Modify That
Data on the Web Browser as Well. AFMSS Access on the Ec Section Or the
Electronic Commerce or Even Internally into AFMSS Is Controlled by
Access, Security By the AFMSS Application Administrator. So, We Have
Various Steps Where We Do Control Access to AFMSS Data. Thereby
Protecting the Data and Protecting Ourselves Against Each Other. The
Bottom Line Is Is That the Field Offices Have Full Control Over Data
Submissions Whether Those Data Submissions Are Coming from External
Customers Such as Operators or from Internal from Our Own BLM Staff.
Jim, We\'ve Talked about a Number Of Different Things That the AFMSS Ec
Would Benefit the Operators and the Industry That We Regulate. But I\'m
Wondering Are There Any Benefits to the BLM of Using This AFMSS
Electronic Commerce System?

J. Haerter: Yes, There Are, Paul. At this Point Our Viewers Are Probably
Way Ahead of Us on this Score but the Benefits That BLM Will Enjoy with
the New System Are Pretty Similar to Those We\'ve Already Discussed for
the Industry. Since the Electronic Permit Is The Only Record That the
Operator Will Submit, There\'s No Requirement That We Print and File a
Paper Copy. Now, I Know this Is a Point Where Some Offices Are Going
Wait a Minute! It\'s Just this Is Outside the Scope of Our Existence
Here. If We Don\'t Have a Piece of Paper in Front of Us with a Signature
on It, We\'ll Go Nuts. It\'s Going to Come down to Working out the
Process in Your Own Individual Offices. But If You Choose this Option
And Don\'t Require a Paper Copy Of Each and Every Permit That\'s
Submitted, it Should Cut down on The Work for Your Administrative Staff.
And the Information Is Already In the Computer So We\'ve Eliminated the
Need for All of That Nasty Data Entry That We\'ve Been Talking About.
The Part That\'s Required to Enter the Permits into AFMSS From the Paper
Form. When the Reviewer Is Satisfied That All of the Required
Information Is Included, the Operator Is Automatically Notified That
Their Permit Has Been Accepted for Processing. This Part Comes down to
an Engineer Typically it Comes down To an Engineer Calling the Operator
on the Phone or Sending Them a Fax or an E‑mail to Notify Them That They
Can Pick Up Their Drilling Permit to Drill Their Well.

P. Brown: Jim, Let Me Make One Point That\'s Often Confused And a Little
Bit Confusing in The System. You Talked about the Operator Seeing That
His Electronic Submission Had Been Accepted by The BLM. Is That the Same
Thing as Being Approved by the BLM for Starting, Initiating the Drilling
Process?

J. Haerter: I\'m Glad You Asked That Question, Paul, Because That Is a
Confusing Item. Accepting the Permit Is Not the Same Thing as Approving
the Permit. The Permit Approval Process Is Quite Lengthy and We\'re
Going to Be Covering That in Great Detail After We Take a Break this
Morning. But They\'re Very, Very Different Issues. And the Acceptance
Process Is Simply Notifying the Operator That BLM Has Received a
Particular Type of Permit.

P. Brown: That It\'s Been Accepted into the AFMSS System but Not
Necessarily Approved by the BLM.

J. Haerter: Essentially it Corresponds to the Receive Date That the
People Typically Stamp On the Front of an Apd or an Nos.

P. Brown: Thank You, Jim.

L. Christensen: I Would Just Like to Mention That Every Office That Has
Started to Receive These Electronic Submissions, They Panic at First.
They Have No Idea What They\'re Supposed to Do with Them. I Believe
We\'ve Got about 11 Offices Right Now That Are Actively Receiving
Transmissions But after They Get a Few, They Start to Get the Feel for
it and They Realize It\'s Not That Difficult and They Have All Worked
out Their Own Individual Processes. The Electronic Permitting Is Going
to Require a Few Adjustments in the Way That You Think about Your Data
and the Way That Your Permitting Items Move Through the Process but
Basically, All You\'re Changing Is How it Comes in the Door. Instead of
Coming in the Mail, It\'s Coming in on the Computer And at That Point,
Your Process Is Basically the Same. And the Operator Will Be Notified
That it Has Been Accepted into AFMSS to Start the Review Process but
They ‑‑ the Operators Have Been Informed Repeatedly That Just Because
It\'s Been Committed to AFMSS, it Doesn\'t Mean It\'s Been Approved.

P. Brown: I Think Those 10 or 11 Offices Dealing with Electronic
Commerce Submissions Right Now Would Agree with Me in The Sense That We,
the BLM and The Staff at Ots Are More Than Willing to Work with the
Individuals, Walk Them Through the First Few Submissions and Make Sure
They Understand Those Steps Completely.

G. Thibodeau: Just to Make One More Point\... Right Now, the Operator
Does Have Absolutely No Idea Where That Apd Is Once It\'s Accepted Into
AFMSS and into the Approval Process. But I Think That in the Future
That\'s One of the Things That Everybody Is Talking about Trying to Get
into the System And That Is to Have That Feedback Back to the Operator
Once the Actual Approval Process Has Begun.

L. Christensen: That\'s Right. That\'s Actually Going to Be in The
August Release. Bill and I Worked out a Way to Put the Final AFMSS
Disposition Into the System. And the Disposition Date So That When it Is
Finally Approved, Rejected, Withdrawn, Cancelled, Rescinded, Denied, the
Whole List of Dispositions on the Approval Screen, Then the Operator
Will Be Able to Be Notified and That Should Be in The August Release.

P. Brown: Great. Jim, Do We Have Some More AFMSS Benefits to BLM?

J. Haerter: Yes, as I Mentioned, We\'ve Talked about Reducing the
Administrative Workload. The next Item That We\'ve Also Already Talked
About, We Expect Accuracy of the Data to Improve. As More Are Filed, it
Should Cause Fewer Delays. As Users and Managers Become More Familiar
with AFMSS Reports, Workload Tracking Can Be Streamlined at the
Statewide And Nationwide Organizational Level of the Organization as
Well. And Finally, All of These Factors Contribute to Cutting The Costs
That Are Associated With Processing Each Permit.

P. Brown: Jim, Let Me Jump in Here. We\'ve Talked about the Current
Benefits to BLM. The Things That Will Benefit the BLM Right Now. Are
There Things We Can Anticipate in the Future for Benefits Internally in
BLM?

J. Haerter: I Think the Limitations and Software Development Are Time
and Money Obviously First but the Only Other Limitation Is Our
Imagination. Future Benefits Include the Capability to Exchange Data
with States and with Other Surface Management Entities. Those Are Really
High on Our List. In Fact, in California, We Hope To Be Exchanging Data
with a Division Wall and Gas and Geo Thermal Resources, Our Sister
Agency, Before the End of this Year. Now, That Might Be Optimistic But
We\'re Really Hoping to Be Able to Do That. In Return, BLM Would like
the State Agency to Have the Ability To Automatically Assign Api Numbers
to Federal ‑‑ Excuse Me, To Automatically Assign Api Numbers to Federal
Wells ‑‑ in Return, BLM Would like the State Agency to Have the Ability
to Automatically Assign Api Numbers To Federal Wells. Realistically, We
Expect That Within the next Year or So, Dual Permitting Will Be a Thing
of The past in California.

P. Brown: the Potential of That Is Not Just Limited to California. I
Would Think That We Could Do That with Any State Agency That Chose to
Participate with Us.

J. Haerter: That\'s Right. Our Unique Situation Is We Currently Have a
Memorandum of Understanding That Specifies Sharing Data Ideally Sharing
Electronic Data with the State Agency as One of its Primary Goals and
Based on That, We\'re Using That as Really Encouragement and Emphasis
for Us to Move into this next Phase Of Electronic Commerce.

P. Brown: Great. As Well as Other States May Have Those Same Mous or
Data Sharing Agreements with Their Individual State Regulatory Agencies.
We Can Definitely Pursue That.

G. Thibodeau: When We Did the Coal Bed Methane Pilot up In Wyoming, We
Did Also Share All Of That Data with the Wyoming Division of Oil and
Gas. So, Basically, the Technical Ability Is Already in Place to Do
That. So, All We Need Is a State to Say Let\'s Do it and We\'re There.

P. Brown: Great. We\'re Going to Come Back and Talk a Little More about
That Towards the Latter Part of Our Broadcast. We\'ve Had a Lot of
Outreach with BLM Field Offices. We\'ve Had a Lot of Outreach with Oil
and Gas Industry. We\'ve Been Talking about Electronic Commerce and
Working On the Electronic Commerce Application for a Number of Years but
Think Even Though We\'ve Still Spread the Word and Gotten a Lot of
Information out To the Individual Field Offices Through Various Mediums,
Think There\'s Still a Lot of Misconceptions That Are out There about
What AFMSS Electronic Commerce Is All About. Every Office That We\'ve
Talked To Brings up Some Similar If Not Identical Misconceptions and
Jim, I Wondered If You Could Take a Little Bit of Time and Work with Me
‑‑ Work Through Some of the Misconceptions and Make Sure We Put These
Things to Rest in the Field Offices.

J. Haerter: Sure.

P. Brown: I Think the First Misconception That We Hear On a Real
Frequent Basis Is That Operators Will Corrupt the Data in The AFMSS
Database or Have the Potential to Corrupt the Data in The AFMSS Database
Through the Submissions.

J. Haerter: the Answer Is No, Paul. Linda Talked about this a Little Bit
Earlier. The Well Information System Is Designed to Integrate with but
Remain Separate from BLM\'s AFMSS Systems. Operators Do Not Enter
Information Directly into the Database. So, They Can\'t Corrupt Any of
The Data on Our Servers.

P. Brown: Great. I Guess the Second Thing We Hear Is That BLM Staff Is
Going to Spend Hours and Hours Standing At the Copy Machine Making Paper
Copies of Everything That Comes In the Door.

J. Haerter: this One Is My Pet Peeve, Paul. And I Think the AFMSS
Software, Although it Has its Flaws, Is Designed So That Users Can Do
Their Work, Can Do the Engineering Reviews and the Geologic Reviews. In
Fact, Our Adjudicator in the Bakersfield Field Office Loves This
Software Specifically Because it Has the Capability to Store Bond
Information and Works The Way She Actually Does Her Job. The Need to
File ‑‑ the Need to Print out a Paper Copy of a Permit Is Really a
Fallacy and Something That Obviously Offices Are Going to Have to Work
Through. You\'re Not Going to Stop People From Making Paper Copies of
the Permits We Receive Overnight but It\'s Absolutely Not Necessary in
Every Single Instance.

P. Brown: Now, I Know for One I\'m Very Paper Attentive And That\'s Part
of the Culture in BLM That We All like to Have Paper On Our Desk.

J. Haerter: That\'s Right.

P. Brown: I Guess I\'m Also Curious about Offices That Work With like
the Forest Service or Bia or Other Surface Management Agencies Where May
Have an Agreement with Those Surface Management Agencies About Providing
Copies of Incoming Submissions. What about a Situation like That?

J. Haerter: in Those Types of Situations, You Would More than Likely
Have to Start off with a Paper Copy of the Permit but Eventually, I
Think You Could Get to the Point and We Have Referred to this Earlier as
Well. If Those Agencies Are Willing And They\'re Capable of Accepting
The Information Electronically, We Can Share That Data Electronically
and Do Away with Paper in Those Particular Situations.

P. Brown: Excellent, Jim. I Think Another Misconception That We Hear
about Very Often Is The Fact That this Electronic Commerce Application
Will Drastically Change the Way Field Offices Process Sundry Notices Or
Apds. What about That?

J. Haerter: Other than Streamlining the Administrative Part, Ec
Shouldn\'t Really Change The Way the Permit Review Process Is Structured
in Your Field Office. Your Office May Want to Look to See That the Work
Is Being Done In the Most Efficient Way and We Think That AFMSS Ec Gives
You Another Tool in Your Toolbox to Be Able to Have Additional Options.
To Look to Streamline the Process. But Implementing Ec Shouldn\'t
Require Any Changes to Be Made. Just Because You Have Began Accepting
Electronic Permits.

P. Brown: Great. I Think Another Misconception We Hear on a Regular
Basis Is the Fact That the Field Offices Will Have No Idea When an
Electronic Submission Comes into the Door Electronically. Right Now,
They Get it Through The Mailroom and Somebody Physically Sees a Piece of
Paper. What about That?

J. Haerter: Paul, the Individuals in Your Office That Have Been
Designated Ec Reviewers Will Have a Notification Box on Their AFMSS
Splash Screen. That First Screen That You See When You Log into the
AFMSS Software. That Box Will Indicate How Many Ec Permits Are Pending.
Although They Can Be Processed At Any Time, We Suggest That You
Designate a Time in the Morning And in the Afternoon to Work on New
Permits. This Schedule Really Will Depend On the Permitting Workload and
The Staff That Are Available in Your Office for Doing That Work But Gene
Talked about the Ec Permits Are Posted to Each Individual Field Office
Twice a Day. And it Would Make Sense to Schedule a Time in Your Office
For Ec Reviewers to at Least Begin Processing Those Permits.

P. Brown: Great. It Seems like We\'ve Heard an Awful Lot about Two Key
Individuals in the AFMSS Application. The AFMSS Aa. And the AFMSS Ec
Review or Reviewers. It Sounds like Those Two People Are Really Key to
the Whole Function in Each Individual Office.

J. Haerter: That\'s Correct. The Fear Is That Everyone Would Be
Designated an Ec Reviewer. And in a Sense, That\'s True. But That\'s
Only in the Same Way That Changing from Airs and Mro To AFMSS Changed
All of Us into Data Quality Experts. What I Mean Is That All of Us,
Pets, Engineers, Geologists and Adjudicators Alike Are Responsible for
the Information That We Use to Do Our Jobs. The Better the Information,
the Easier That Is. And Although We Recommend That Each Office Designate
Two Ec Reviewers, If Someone Else Finds A Mistake in a Permit, They
Should Correct It. Automatically. Or Notify Someone Who Will.

P. Brown: Ok. Let Me Go Back to the Previous Point. Each AFMSS User
Should Know Who Their AFMSS Aa Is. That Person Is Very Key to All Of the
Aspects of the AFMSS Funks and Operations. Also, You Also Should Know,
You Should Know Who Your Ec Reviewer And Their Backup Would Be. We\'re
Going to Talk about That a Little Bit. But We Keep Hearing about the Aa
And the Ec Reviewer. It Sounds like Those Two Individuals Are Very
Critical to The Smooth Operation of this AFMSS Function. Ok. Great. So
Far We\'ve Given You a Good Insight into AFMSS Ec. We\'ve Covered What
Ec Is. And What it Is Not. We\'ve Given

Short History Lesson Covering Where We\'ve Come from since Our First
Initial Testing Efforts. We\'ve Shown You the Four Types Of Electronic
Documents and Attachments That Can Be Submitted. We\'ve Looked at the
How, the What and the Why of Electronic Commerce. Some of the Benefits
to BLM as Well as Industry and Provided You a Summary of Electronic
Signatures and Other Security Issues. And Hopefully We\'ve Cleared up
Some Misconceptions You May Have Had about AFMSS Electronic Commerce. In
the next Segment, We\'ll Refer To the Viewer Segment Quite Frequently.
We\'ll Be Referencing Page Numbers Throughout Our Presentations So That
You Can Refer to the AFMSS Screens While We\'re Discussing Them. Before
We Get to Our next Segment, I Imagine You Are All Ready for a Short
Break. As Well as We. When We Come Back, We\'re Going To Talk about How
to Process Electronic Permits. So, Please Stay Tuned! We\'ll See You in
a Few Minutes.

P. Brown: Welcome Back to Our AFMSS Electronic Commerce Telecast. Before
We Get Started on this Next Segment of Our Show, I Want To Mention That
Later Today at 12:30 P.m. Phoenix Time Which Is 1:30 P.m. Mountain Time,
Another Telecast Is Scheduled Why Our New Director Tom Fry. You\'ll Want
to Stay Tuned to Hear What Tom Has to Tell Us. Tom\'s Show Will Be on
the Same Coordinate as this Broadcast. You Should Have No Problems
Tuning In. In this Segment of Our Show, We\'re Going to Discuss the Ec
Reviewer Responsibilities, the Ec Are You View Process and Screens as
Well as Specifics on How to Process an Nos, an Apd, a Well Completion
Report and a Sundry Notice. Including Any of the Attachments That Might
Come along with Those. Now, this next Session Will Only Be a Brief
Overview of the Process. This Is Not Intended to Be a Detailed Data
Entry Point and Click Type of Demonstration. Users Are Encouraged to
Attend NTC Training Sessions That Go Into Far Greater Detail than We
Have Time for Here Today. Detailed Data Entry Instructions Can Also Be
Found in the Ec Reviewers Manual. A Draft Version of the Ec Reviewer\'s
Manual Has Been Sent To Each Office with the AFMSS Application. I Would
like Each of You to Review the Document after this Broadcast and Submit
Any Comments You Might Have. If You Can\'t Locate a Copy, Check Your All
Important AFMSS Application Administrator or the Help Desk. Before We
Get into the Details Of Our next Section, I Would Like to Say Something
about Outreach on the Use of this Tool. Throughout the Development, and
Implementation, We Have Included The Input of Not Only Bureau Users but
Operators, Permit Agents and Various State Government Representatives.
While this Session Today Is Geared Primarily Towards BLM Staff, We Have
Not Forgotten to Continue Our Outreach to Industry. We Want to Get the
Bureau Staff Up to Speed on the Ec Functionality Before Getting a Whole
Lot of Operators Submitting Electronic Commerce Transactions. I Would
like You to Know We\'ve Conducted Outreach Sessions in Vernal, Utah and
Farmington, New Mexico. We\'ll Also Have a Booth at the Fluid Mineral
Conference in Albuquerque in July. We Also Have a Session Planned For
Wyoming During the First Week in August. Another Point That I Would like
To Stress Again Is the Dynamic And Flexible Nature AFMSS by Working
Through the Local AFMSS Aa, BLM Users Can Submit Change Requests and
Operators Can Submit Request Changes as Well Through the Web Interface.
Many of the Functions You See Today Are as a Result of Many, Many Bureau
and Industry Change Requests. We Will Continue to Be Responsive to the
Change Requests in Light of Our Priorities and Funding Limitations. Now,
with That Said, I Would Like to Let Jim Explain How to Get Started with
Ec in Your Office. Jim, Take it Away.

J. Haerter: Thanks, Paul. I\'ve Talked to a Lot of Users Over the past
Few Months and the First Question That They Always Come up with Is Who
Is an Ec Reviewer? Well, the Answer Is Each Office Decides for
Themselves. We Recommend That Each Office Designate at Least Two. A
Primary and a Backup. The next Question How Do You Get Started? What
Does My Application Administrator Have to Do to Be Able to Set up an Ec
Reviewer to Begin Processing Permits in AFMSS? Well, Your Local
Application Administrator Will Assign Those Privileges by First Pulling
the Main AFMSS Menu, the Options Drop Down. And Going to User
Maintenance. At That Point, They\'ll Query for The User. And Add the Ec
Reviewer Security Group to That Particular Security Profile. After Those
Steps Are Complete, The Review Process Can Begin. But Before We Begin
Describing The Process, Gene Has Just a Couple of Important Points to
Make. Will You Help Us with Those?

G. Thibodeau: the Main Purpose of this Whole Ec Review Process Is Simply
to Take the Data That the Operator Has Entered Out on the Web and Marry
That to The Data That\'s in AFMSS. Now, There Are Some Key Fields That
We Need to Talk about and If You Look at Page Four in Your Viewer
Packet, You Will See a List of Those Key Fields. Very Briefly, I\'m
Going to Just Run Through Them. Here Again, They\'re Fields You\'re Very
Familiar With. You\'ve Seen Many, Many Times. But the Important Thing to
Realize Here Is These Are ‑‑ to Use Linda\'s Term Geek Speak, They\'re
Literally Key Fields in The AFMSS Data Tables Which Means That They\'re
Fields That Are Required to Associate All of The Data for a Given Lease
Agreement Well or Whatever. And Those Fields Are Lease, Agreement,
Operator, Well, and Facility. Location, Field/pool, Formations And Bond.
It\'s Very Important to Realize That All of Those Fields Are, in Fact,
Mandatory Fields on the Operator Input Side out on the Web. One Other
Thing That We\'ve Kind Of Touched on and That You All Need to Be Aware
of Is on the AFMSS Splash Screen, You\'ll Notice up in the Right‑hand
Corner, There Is a Field up There and You Probably Can\'t Read That but
it Indicates the Number of Pending Pc Transactions That You Have on Your
System. Now, That Number, as You Do Something with Them, Will Go Down.
If You Reject One, If You Transfer One, If You Commit One To AFMSS, That
Number Will Go Down by One. The Other Thing That Will Happen To That
Number Is Every Day at 6:00 A.m. and Noon, When the Automatic Transfer
Takes Place From the Wis Server to Your Database, If You Had Any
Transactions out There, Those Will Go Up. So, That Number Will Increase
as They Come out There.

P. Brown: Gene, I Have a Question. The Ec Count They\'re Shows up on The
Splash Screen, Will All the AFMSS Users in a Particular Office See That
Counter on Their AFMSS Splash Screen?

G. Thibodeau: Absolutely Not. The Only People That Will See That Are the
Designated Ec Reviewers. They\'re the Only Ones. The Reason for That Is
They\'re Also the Only Ones That Can Process the Data.

P. Brown: Very Good.

G. Thibodeau: That\'s Why That\'s That Way. To Go on with this Ec Review
Process, the next Thing That You Would Probably Do Is on That Splash
Screen on the Main Menu, You Would Click on Options up on The Top and
Then You Would Come Down and Click on Ec Review. And Really, Linda Is
Our Ec Review Expert So I\'m Going to Let Her Carry on from Here.

L. Christensen: Ok. Thanks, Gene. I Feel like Now Would Be a Really Good
Time to Warn Our Viewing Audience That the next Portion of the Broadcast
Is Going to Be Extremely Boring. Viewer Discretion Is Advised. If You
Fall Asleep, Please Don\'t Hit Your Head but There\'s No Other Way to
Get the Information To You. What We\'re Trying to Do Here Is Give You
Enough Information to Get You Started So That If an Ec Transaction Does
Show up at Your Office You Don\'t Panic and Have An Idea What to Do with
It. The Counter on the Splash Screen Will Go from 0 to 1 When Your First
One Arrives and at That Point That\'s When the Ec Reviewer Will Need to
Spring Into Action. As Gene Described, You Would Go To Options and
Select the Ec Review Option and That Would Bring up the Ec List Screen
Which Is Actually Shown on Page 6 in Your Viewer Packet I Believe. And
for Most of You AFMSS Users, This Is Going to Look Familiar. It Looks a
Lot like the Well Finder Screen That You Can Get To off the Operations
Option. Couple of Small Differences Though. In the Lower Left Hand
Corner, You\'ll See Radio Buttons and Those Would Enable You, If You
Were Going to Query on this Screen and You Wanted to See Pending
Transactions Which Means Transactions That Are Pending Review, Versus
Transactions That Are in Another Status, You Would Need to Click the
Radio Button To Get Different Types of Results to Show Up. The Button
Bar Is the Typical AFMSS Button Bar You\'re Used to Seeing. It Has
Query, Clear, Exit, Sort, Print. Those Are All Just Standard AFMSS
Functions You\'ve All Used A Thousand Times Before. The Query by Example
Boxes Are Again Just like the Regular Old AFMSS Query Screens That
You\'re Used To. One Thing I Should Point out Though That\'s a Little
Bit Different from the Well Finder Screen Is That this Screen, When It
Comes up Initially, Is Going To Already Show You All of the Pending Ec
Transactions. You Won\'t Have to Query for Those at All N Our Example
Here On the Screen, We Have a Number Of Transactions That Are Pending
Review and Those Would Come up Automatically When the Screen Opens.
Another Important Note about This Screen That\'s a Little Confusing to
Folks So Far Is That on this Screen, You\'ll Only See the Operator
Submitted Data. If You Go in Through the Ec Reviewer Process and You
Make Some Associations with Real AFMSS Data. Say You ‑‑ the Operator
Specified a Lease and the Well Is Actually on an Agreement. You Won\'t
See That Change on This Screen. You\'ll Only See What the Operator Data
Came in As. So, the Thing to Keep in Mind There Is That as You Go
Through And Make the Transactions into AFMSS Data, You Won\'t Actually
See Any of the Information Reflected on this Screen. Let\'s Talk a
Little Bit about The Columns on this Screen. On the Left Hand Side,
You\'ve Got the Transaction I.d. Number And That\'s the Unique Number
That Gene Talked about on the Web Form and the Operator Does Know this
Number. So, If the Operator Had Submitted Several Transactions And Had a
Question about One, This Might Be a Really Good Way For You Guys to Make
Sure That You\'re Both Talking about the Same One. And You Can Refer to
it That Way. It Is More of a Reference Number Than Anything Else. The
next Column over Is the Status Column. And this Is Actually the Status
As Far as Electronic Commerce Is Concerned. It Has Nothing to Do with
the Actual Disposition in AFMSS. And as Gene Mentioned Before, There Are
Four Values That this Column Can Have. Pend Which Means Pending Ec
Review Meaning You\'ve Not Done Anything with it Yet as the Reviewer.
Commit Which Means That it Has Been Committed to AFMSS and It\'s In Your
AFMSS Database Now and At That Point Any Further Editing That You Need
to Do to That Transaction, You Need to Do In AFMSS. Reject Which Means
That the Transaction Has Been Rejected or Sent Back to the Operator for
Some Reason. And I Think Paul Will Be Talking About That a Little Bit
More to Explain Why You Might Reject a Transaction. And Xfer or Transfer
Which Means That the Transaction Has Been Sent to Another Office. The
next Column over Is the Type Column and That Tells What You Type of
Transaction it Is. The Usual Types Are There. Nos and Apd. Wc Is Well
Completion. I Think a Lot of Folks in the BLM Refer to Those as Crs or
Completion Reports but We Were Different. We Had to Go with Wc. And
Sundry Notice Is an Sn. And the next Column Is Actually The Least
Number. It Is Entitled Case Number but On this Screen it Will Only Show
The Lease Number. The Operator Name Field as the Operator Specified it
on the Submission. The Api Number Field If the Operator Supplied It.
Now, as You All Know for Noss And Apds, That Will Generally Be Blank but
There Might Be Something There for Well Completion Reports and Sundries.
The next Column over Is the Well Or Facility Name Field and since We
Have Transactions That Can Apply to Both Wells or Facilities like a
Sundry, the Contents of That Field Will Change Depending on What That
Lean on the Screen Refers To. So, If It\'s a Well, You\'ll See a Well
Name There and If it Is a Facility, All You\'ll See the Facility Name
There. And Pretty Much the Rest of the Fields Are the Same That You\'re
Used To. All the Location Information. That\'s All the Same Stuff That
You\'re Used to like on the AFMSS Well Finder Screen. Another Important
Note about This Screen Is Well, since Sundries Can Display Multiple
Lines, You Might Have a Sundry That Displays Two Wells and One Facility.
You Would Have Three Lines Show Up on this Screen and I Think in Our
Example on the Screen, Both Of Our Sundries Are Just Single Item
Sundries So There\'s Just One Line but the Way You Would Tell That Is to
Look at the Transaction I.d. Number on the Left‑hand Side of the Screen
and When You See the Transaction I.d. Number Repeated for a Couple of
Transactions Together, That Means That All of Those Items Go Together on
That Sundry Notice. Another Feature That\'s a Little Bit Different from
the Normal Well Finder Screen Is the Print Form Button and That\'s in
the Lower Right‑hand Part of the Screen. And What this Will Actually
Enable You to Do Is Print an Actual BLM Form That Contains The Operator
Specified Information and it Will Look Just like it Came off of a Laser
Printer. Actually If You Print It, it Will Have Come off of a Laser
Printer but All the Data Will Be Filled in and Currently it Will Only
Show the Originally Submitted Operator Data on the Form. In the August
Release AFMSS, We\'re Including a Revisions Page Which Will Show Side by
Side What the Operator Submitted and What the BLM Revisions Are. The
next Button Was a Suggestion From the Folks in Buffalo and it Is the
Validate All Button. If You Have Several Ec Transactions That Come In,
this Might Be a Good Thing to Press On this Screen. You Won\'t Be Able
to See What it Does Here but What this Does Is It Does an Auto
Validation. Which Means it Goes Through the Program ‑‑ the Program Will
Go Through When You Press the Button. Every Single One of the
Transactions Shown on the Screen And it Will Try to Match the Operator
Specified Data with the Real AFMSS Data in Your Database. You Won\'t Be
Able to See That on This Screen Very Much Because it Just Does it All
Behind the Scenes but on the Header Screen We\'ll Get to in a Minute,
You\'ll Be Able to See the Results More Clearly. The Last Button on this
Screen Is the Ec Header Button. This Is Where the Ec Reviewer Would Go
When They\'re Ready to Start an Ec Review Process. First Thing They
Would Do Is Click on Transaction to Review. In this Case, We\'ll Be
Starting With an Nos and Then They Would Go to the Ec Header Screen for
a Notice of Staking. So the Screen ‑‑ the Ec Heading Screen Will Show
What the Operator Submitted Versus What The BLM Revisions Are and this
Screen Just So You Know Is Exactly the Same for a Notice of Staking an
Apd or Well Completion. It Contains All the Same Common Data That
Appears on All of Those Forms. For Sundries, There Is a Pretty Different
Header Screen and That\'s Because it Can Apply to More than One Thing.
The Revised Fields as You Can See on this Screen, Some of Them Are White
Which Means They\'re Input Fields and You Can Type in Them. Other Ones
Are Not Input Fields And Those Are the Ones That You\'ll Need to Fill in
Using Some Sort of a Pick List. Just about Every One of the Fields Has
Something, If It\'s a Field You Can\'t Type In, Will Be A Button near it
on the Screen That Will Let You Select an Option to Fill That Field In.
Let\'s Go Through ‑‑ this Is a Pretty Busy Field. A Pretty Busy Screen.
There Is an Awful Lot on It. Why Don\'t We Go Through Very Quickly and
Just Talk about the Sections of the Screen to Get

Little Bit Familiar with It. Across the Top of the Screen Is The
Information That Pertains to This Transaction. And That\'s the
Transaction I.d. Number Shows up There. Along with the Date That it Was
Submitted, the Type of Transaction, That Sort of Thing. Right Underneath
That Is the Well Information Which Will Contain the Operator Specified
Well Name Number, Api Number, Type of Well and There\'s Also a Little
Field There Called Proprietary Which Will Indicate Whether or Not
Whether or Not it Is a Confidential Submission. The next Part of the
Screen Is The Operator Section and You Can See That it Contains a Field
for The Original and Revised Operator. And Just Beneath That, We Have
The Field and Pool Section of The Screen. You\'re Probably Getting the
Hang Of this Now. We Have Original Data and Revised Data. Just to the
Right of That, We\'ve Got the Lease and Agreement Section Where You Can
Specify Lease and Agreement Information And Also since this Is on the
Apd Form, You Can See What the Operator Filled in If the Permit Is Going
to Be Subject to Indian Jurisdiction, They May Have Filled in the
Allotee or the Tribe Name. And at the Bottom of the Screen And as Far as
Our Data Entry Fields Go, You\'ve Got the Location Information and on
this Screen, it Is Just Going to Show You the Surface Location. The next
Thing We Need to Talk About Are the Nos Buttons at the Bottom of the
Screen. The Normal Button Bar There Is Your Usual AFMSS Stuff. A Lot of
it Is Any Way Then We\'ve Got Special Ec Related Buttons That We\'re
Going to Talk About in a Minute. At the Am Bottom of the Screen, You\'ll
See There Has Been Some Specific Buttons That Will Take You to
Subscreens to Review Additional Ec Information. We\'re on the Commit to
AFMSS Side. That\'s the Left‑hand Side of the Screen. I\'m Sorry. These
Are Some of the Special Buttons That I Was Just Mentioning. The Commit
to AFMSS and Saved Work. We\'ll Be Talking about it as We Go Through the
Process. You\'ve Heard Us Mention about Rejecting or Transferring a
Transaction to Another Office. Then You\'ve Got the Validate Button
Which We Saw the Validate All Button on the Previous Screen on the
Finder\'s Screen And in this Case, the Validate Button on this Screen
Just Will Validate the One Transaction That You\'re On. The Remarks
Button Will Allow You to Enter Remarks after You\'ve Committed it to
AFMSS and Then If We Could Go to the next One Which Will Show Us the
Right‑hand Side of the Screen, I Believe, We\'ll See the Special Buttons
That Will Take Us to the Nos Processing Subscreens. There We Go. You Can
See We\'ve Got Buttons Down There in the Lower Right‑hand Corner.
Operator, Location and Nos General. And the Thing That\'s a Little Bit
Different about These Ec Reviewer Screens Is That These Buttons, the
Screen May Look Basically the Same but These Buttons Will Changed
Depending On What Type of Transaction You\'re Looking At. So, These Are
the Buttons You Would See When You\'re Processing An Nos. Let\'s Walk
Through Some of the Steps That You Would Go Through In Order to Review
an Ec Transaction. The Very First Thing You Would Do When You Came into
this Screen as the Ec Reviewer Would Be to Press the Validate Button
Which, in the Picture You\'re Seeing Now Is Just Right over There on the
Left. You Would Press the Validate Button and That\'s Going to Fill In
Some of the Fields on the Ec Header Screen for You. You Probably Didn\'t
Notice this Before but All of the White Fields When this Screen First
Came up Were Blank and We Just Pressed the Validate Button and You Can
See That a Couple of Fields Have Been Filled in Already. The Lease and
Agreement Apparently the Validation Process Found a Match That it Thinks
Is a Good One. The Operator Was Filled in by The Validation Process. So
this Is What the Validation Button Will Do and this Is Really the Only
Screen Where You\'ll Actually Get to See What It\'s Doing Behind the
Scenes. So, Your Job as the Ec Reviewer Is to Check the Results and
Makes Sure the Validate Process Actually Picked the Right Stuff. And
after You Have Determined That the Values it Selected Are Ok, Your next
Job Would Be to Go Ahead and Fill in the Rest of The Blanks and Pretty
Much You\'ve Just Got to Associate AFMSS Data. Your AFMSS Data
Everywhere it Shows There\'s a Need to Fill in A Revised Field. If You
Didn\'t Agree with Something, If You Felt Like, for Example, it Picked
the Wrong Lease, You Would Probably Want To Press the Find Lease Button.
And That\'s Going to Bring up a Query and Pick List Screen Which Would
Enable You to Enter Some Information to Query for the Correct Lease and
Just like All Niece Other Screens in AFMSS, You Would Query Your
Criteria. Press the Query Button and Select the Proper Lease and Then
Press Exit. And When You Return Back to the Main Screen, Your Selection
Would Have Filled in on That Screen. The next Step That an Ec Reviewer
Would Do after Pressing The Validation Button Would Be To Go to the
Operator Subscreen. And You Can See this ‑‑ I Believe It\'s on Page 10
in Your Viewer Packet So You Would Press The Operator Button and a
Screen Would Come up That Shows Both The Operator and the Contact
Information That Was Specified For this Electronic Commerce Transaction.
And There You Can See the Operator Screen Displayed for You. The Top
Part of the Screen Is Operator Information. The Lower Part Is Contact
Information. And Just to Make it More Confusing, the Original
Information Is on the Left Side Of the Screen and the Revised
Information Is on the Right. You Can See We Have a Find Operator Button
Where You Could Bring up Another Query and Pick List Screen to Find and
Select The Proper Operator. Also, If this Operator Is New in Your Area,
If You Just Press the Add Operator Button, it Will Be Automatically
Added to Your Database Without Any Further Ado. You Won\'t Have to Enter
Them. If You Press the Button, it Will Be Added to Your Database If
Needed. After You\'re Satisfied with Your Operator Selection, You\'ll
Need To Work on the Contact. And If You Press the Find Contact Button
There, it Will Bring up a List of All of the Contacts for this Operator
That Are Actually in Your Database Right Now. And We Know Contacts Are
Kind of ‑‑ They Change a Lot and So in Order to Make it a Little Bit
Easier, If You Would like to on This Screen, You Can Press the Save
Button and If the Contact Is in Your Database, We\'ll Just Automatically
Fill That in for You. And If It\'s Not in Your Database, Then We\'ll Go
Ahead And Add it for You Automatically Behind the Scenes. So, When
You\'re Done with this Screen and You\'ve Got the Operator and the
Contact Information Filled Out, Then You Would Just Press the Save
Button And the Exit Button and You Would Go Back to the Main Header
Screen.

G. Thibodeau: Linda, Let Me Jump in with My Favorite Button Again. Save
Work Button. Here Again, I Really Want to Emphasize That You Can Do
Exactly the Same Thing Here That You Could Do ‑‑ That Operator Could Do
out on the Website. You Press the Save Work Button, Perhaps It\'s Time
to Go Home or The Boss Wants You to Do Something and So You Have to
Leave Your Work. Wherever You Are in this Validate Process, You Can Just
Press the Save Work Button and When You Come Back Later, All of The Work
You\'ve Already Done Will Be Saved out There.

L. Christensen: That\'s Right, Gene. I Tell People Save Early, Save
Often Because the Save Work Button Will Just Keep All of the
Associations That You\'ve Made So Far and Make Sure That You Don\'t Lose
Anything in the Process. Well, the next Step That the Ec Reviewer Would
Go Through Would Be to Press the Location Button And That Would Bring up
the Location Screen Which Is Actually Located, I Believe, on Page 10 in
Your Viewer Packet. The Location Screen Is Going to Look Very Similar to
the Location Information on the Well Header Screen Because That\'s
Pretty Much Where I Copied it From. And on this Screen, the Original
Information Is at the Top. And the Revised Information Is At the Bottom.
In Order to Make it a Little Bit Easier, We Added the Copy Original to
Revised. That Button Is down There So If The Operator Has Specified
Information and It\'s Lengthy and You Don\'t Want to Type it In, You Can
Press the Copy Original To Revise Button in the Lower Right‑hand Corner
and That Will Copy Everything That the Operator Submitted to the Bottom
Of the Screen and Then You Can Edit it If Needed. So, You Would Get the
Location Information. Complete to Your Satisfaction And Ready to Go into
AFMSS. And Then Just as on the Other Screens, You Would Press the Save
Button and the Exit Button. And That Will Take You Back to The Ec Header
Screen. The Last Screen That We Need to Talk about for Nos Processing Is
The Nos General Information Screen. And on the Ec Header Screen, There
Is a Button for this and You Would Press it and this Would Be Displayed.
It Is on Page 11 in Your Viewer Packet. The Only Field That You Need to
Worry about on this Screen Is The Production Objective or I\'m Sorry,
the Producing Objective There. You Could Type Something in or Bring up
the Find Formation Button Where You Can Pick Something Just like on the
Other Screens. The Other Information Is There Just for Your Review. You
Could Read It. This Is Just ‑‑ You Recognize This. This Is Other
Information That Comes in on an Nos When it Comes In the Old‑fashioned
Way on Paper. After You\'ve Made Your Association to the Real AFMSS
Formation, Again, You Would Press Save and Exit and That Would Take You
Back to the Ec Header Screen. You Can See Right Now That the Ec Header
Screen Is Pretty Central to this Whole Process. It Is Basically the
Traffic Cop For All of the Ec Review Steps. The Last Thing You Would
Need to Do as the Ec Reviewer Is Look to See If There Are Any
Attachments And since There Often Are Not Attachments for an Nos, We\'ll
Talk about That a Little Bit More When We Discuss the Apd Since That\'s
the One That Tends To Be Pretty Heavy with Attachments. The Last Step
That You Would Do On this Screen Prior to Committing the Notice of
Staking To AFMSS Would Be to Enter the Date Received Which Is up at the
Top of the Screen. That\'s Another Thing That Folks In Buffalo
Requested. They Wanted to Be Able to Enter Their Own Date Received. I
Did Have the Software Defaulting to the Current Date But That Didn\'t
Turn out to Be Such a Good Idea. You Can Enter the Date the Thing Was
Received in Your Office. Whatever Date That Would Be. And Press the
Commit to AFMSS Button. And at That Point It\'s Going to Ask You a
Couple of Things Just To Verify That We\'re Sure What You\'re Doing.
There Will Be a Change Effective Date Screen That Appears. And I Can
Think of Those of You Who Have Used Well Header Quite A Bit, this Change
Effective Date That It\'s Prompting You for Is the Change Effective Date
You Fill in on Well Header. So, You Would Enter a Date. And Press Save
and Exit. And since this an Nos, it Is Probably Going to Add a New Well
So the next Screen That Would Come Up, It\'s Going to Ask You And this
Is Just like the One ‑‑ I\'m Sorry, this One Is a Special Screen for Ec
but it Will Ask You If You Would like to Add a New Well to AFMSS. And in
this Case, We Do. So, We\'ll Click on Yes and Continue. And at That
Point, It\'s Just Going to Do a Couple of Things And Add the
Transaction, the Nos To Your Database Just like You Had Typed it in on
the Well Header Screen. It Will Populate the Tables and At this Point
You\'re Done Processing the Ec Transaction Except for a Few Final
Things. After You\'ve Committed to AFMSS, You\'re Going to Need to Press
The Well Header Button Which Is On the Ec Header Screen. And That Will
Take You to the Normal Well Header Screen That You\'ve Seen a Million
Times in AFMSS to Go Ahead and Complete The Data Entry. There Are a Few
Extra Fields That Need to Be Filled In. On the Well Header Screen. That
Don\'t Come in on an Nos. These Are Required Fields in AFMSS but
They\'re Not Anything That the Operator Is Required to Fill In. And the
Fields Are the Exploratory or Developmental Designation There. The
Resource Area and the Surface Management Entity. Those Are Judicial
Fields That Are Needed by AFMSS That the Operator Doesn\'t Supply. And
at this Point, You Would Just Press Save on the Well Header Screen. And
That Pretty Much Wraps up The Ec Review Process. For an Nos. Paul?

P. Brown: Great. Thanks, Linda. Want to Talk about One of My Favorite
Buttons for a Minute. In Your Viewer Packet on Page 12, You Can See an
Example of This. We Heard a Couple of Times Throughout the Broadcast
about The Reject Button. This Is Not Meant to Be Commentary on Any of
Our Employees. And One Thing We Had an Engineer In an Office That I
Won\'t Mention and as Soon as He Saw This Button, He Said this Is Great.
I Can Use this to Reject Everything and I Won\'t Have Any Workload. Au
Contraire. I Don\'t Think That\'s What this Button Is Designed For. What
this Will Actually Do Is That If You Get a Sundry Notice, An Apd, an
Nos, Any Kind of Electronic Submission That, for Some Reason, You Just
Cannot Deal with It. Maybe It\'s a Well or a Sundry Notice on a Facility
or a Well That We Don\'t Have Jurisdiction Over and the Operator Sent it
to Us by Mistake, If It\'s So Badly Mangled Up, You Just Want to Start
Over, You Can Actually Do That. One Caution Though. There Is a Set of
Comments on This Screen That You Can Actually Type in as to Why You Are
Rejecting this Particular Submission. The Word of Caution Is Is That
These Comments Are Seen by the Operator. So, You Need to Be Careful or I
Guess If You Don\'t Want to Be Careful, What You Type in There. But Be
Aware That Those Comments Are Seen by the Operator. And If You Need to
Reject or Send a Submission Back to the Operator, You Can Do That Using
The Reject Button. Well, Gene Had a Favorite Button And I Have a
Favorite Button. Squam, Do You Have a Favorite Button?

J. Haerter: I Wouldn\'t Call It a Favorite Button, Paul but Because
It\'s One That Doesn\'t Get Used Very Often. Most Offices Aren\'t Going
to Be Using this Particular Option Very Often. It Is the One That Linda
Referred to as Xfer. To Transfer a Well Permit or Perhaps Let Me Start
Over. A Permit May Need to Be Transferred If it Is Submitted To the
Incorrect BLM Office. On this Particular Screen, You\'re Going to Be
Able to Select, Using the Pulldown Menu, In the Lower Center Third of
the Screen, You\'re Going to Be Able To Use the Pulldown Menu to Select
the Particular or the Appropriate BLM Office That the Permit Should Have
Been Submitted To. Typically, Permits Are Submitted Incorrectly Only
When There Is Some Question about Whether a Lease Is in One Particular
Resource Area or Another. And it Won\'t Happen Very Often. Similar to
the Reject Button, There Is a Section for Comments For the Operator
Although, in This Case, We Have a Set of Comments. If You\'ll Pay
Particular Attention to the Center Part of The Screen. It Just Says this
Ec Transmission Was Sent to the Wrong Office and Is Being Rerouted for
You. Please Direct All Future Correspondence to That Office. Obviously
That Pertains to the Particular Well or Apd That We\'re Talking About.
But Paul, Do You Have a Question?

P. Brown: Actually Not a Question but I Might Have Jumped in Before You
Were Done. But I Wanted to Emphasize That This Transfer Feature Was
Actually Put into the System as A Customer Service. A Lot of Times
Operators Are Not Familiar with Our Boundaries, Our Administrative
Boundaries And Whether an Apd Should Go to The Grand Junction Office or
the Moab Office. Rather than Sending it Back and Saying Hey, You Sent it
to the Wrong Office. This Really Belonged to Grand Junction, You Sent it
to Moab. We Put the Feature in for the BLM Offices to Do a Little
Customer Service and If They Get A Submission That Does Not Belong to
Them but They Know Which Office it Does Belong To, They Can Send this on
to the New Office as a Customer Support Feature. We Didn\'t Want to Put
the Responsibility Back on the Operator to Get it to the Right Office
but BLM Took That on as a Customer Service.

J. Haerter: Thank You for Helping to Clear That up for Us, Paul. The
Last Thing We Need to Talk About Is the Transfer Button on The Lower
Part of the Screen. By Pressing the Transfer Button, It Actually Changes
That Permit From a Pending Status to a Transferred or Xferred Status And
Returns Us Back to the Particular Screen, in this Case, The Nos
Transaction Screen We Were Working on Before. Gain, Perhaps You Could
Talk a Little Bit about Remarks.

G. Thibodeau: Sure. The Remarks Button, When You Press the Remarks
Button, You\'re Going to See a Screen That\'s Very Familiar to All of
You. It Is Simply a Matter of it Goes Right into the AFMSS Screen and As
You Can See, this Is Probably A Very Familiar Screen. It Gives You the
Opportunity to Enter Any Kind of Remarks That You Might Have Here.
Without Having to Go Back into After Miss and Find out Where You Need to
Be. So, You Know, That\'s Basically All There Is to It. There\'s One
More Thing That I Need to Mention about This. These Remarks Are Stored
in AFMSS and the Only Difference From Other Remarks Is There Is a Type
Code That Is Associated With the Remarks. And the Type Code Here Is Ec
So It\'s Electronic So That You Know Where Those Remarks Came From. Then
You Simply Press Save and Exit Just like Always and You\'ve Saved Your
Remarks and AFMSS Just like the AFMSS Screen Works.

L. Christensen: One Thing That We Probably Need to Mention Is the
Remarks Button Does Appear on the Ec Header Screen And It\'s Only Really
Active After You\'ve Committed the Transaction to AFMSS. At That Point,
You Can Go Ahead And Press It. This Is Not Required. This Is Not
Anything You Need to Worry about as a Normal Part of The Ec Review
Process but after You\'ve Committed the Transaction To AFMSS, You Can
Just Press the Remarks Button on the Header Screen and it Will Bring up
as Jean Mentioned, the Normal AFMSS Well Remarks for That Well. And the
Remarks at That Point Have a Category of Ec and They\'re Saved with All
the Rest Of the Well Remarks That Go with That Well. Just Thought I
Might Want to Clarify That.

G. Thibodeau: You Bet. Then Just to Wrap up the Rest of The Buttons That
Are on the Ec Header Screen, There Is a Form Button That Will Actually
Print A Replica of the Form That You\'re Working on Whether It\'s The
Nos or the Apd or Whatever It Is, Then There Is the Standard Series of
Buttons That Are on So Many Screens That You\'re All Very Familiar With.
There\'s Next, Previous, Clear, Exit, and the Print Buttons. I Didn\'t
Want to Leave All of Those Buttons Hanging. I Just Wanted to Make Sure
That Everyone Knew Exactly What Was Going on with That Screen. So, Think
That Pretty Much Takes Care of the Rest of the Buttons On the Ec Header
Screen.

P. Brown: Great. I Think We\'ve Taken a Pretty Good In‑depth Look at the
Nos Processing. The Most Logical Document That Would Come in after the
Nos Would Probably Be an Apd. Gene, I Wonder If You Could Walk Us
Through the Process for Processing an Apd?

G. Thibodeau: Linda Has Done Most of My Work for Me Because So Much of
the Apd Is the Same As the Nos. But I\'ll Run Through it Fairly Quickly
Here Just So That You Do See the Differences. Again, the First Thing You
Do Is You Find Your Transaction on the Ec List Screen. And You Highlight
It. And Then You Go to the Header Screen Just like Linda Did with The
Nos. Now, If You Look at Page 15 in Your Viewer Packet, You\'ll Find An
Apd Ec Header Screen. There Are a Couple of Differences from the Nos
Here. First of All, Is Probably the Find Well Button. Which Is in the
Upper Right‑hand Corner. And the Find Well Button Simply Is Used to Go
out to AFMSS and Find the Well, If it Happens to Be There. If You Had an
Nos Previous on This Same Well, Then There Would Probably Be a Well out
There and You Could Go Find the Well. Basically, That\'s All the Find
Well Button Does but Obviously It Does You No Good on the Nos So That\'s
Why It\'s Here. Then in the Lower Right‑hand Corner, Where the
Processing Buttons Are That Linda Mentioned, There Are Two Different
Ones down There. There\'s an Apd General Button. And a Casing Button. I
Just Wanted to Point Those out To You That Those Were the Differences.
I\'ll Get Back to Them in a Second. Really, the First Thing You Would
Normally Do Here, You Would Hit the Validate Button Just like You Did
with the Nos. And That Would Give You the Opportunity to Review Revised
Fields That Were Updated Because The Information Was Found on AFMSS.
Those Fields Being Well Information, Operator, Field Pool, Lease and
Agreement. Pretty Much Again Exactly the Same as the Nos. Then, You Also
Have Operator Buttoned and a Location Button. And Again, Thank You,
Linda. Those Work Exactly the Same as They Do on the Nos. Now, Back to
the Apd General Button for a Second. And That Screen That\'s Going to
Show up Is on Page 16 of Your Viewer Packet. If You Want to Take a Quick
Look At It. When You Get That Apd General Screen, There Are a Couple of
Important Buttons That I Want to Talk about on this One. First of All,
in the Upper Right‑hand Corner, There Is a Find Bond Button. And
Basically, What That Does Is Simply Goes out to AFMSS and Finds the Bond
for You. If it Isn\'t There, You Can Type The Bond Number in the White
Field. Same as Any Other White Fields. The next Button, There\'s Two
More Buttons up There in the Upper Right‑hand Corner. And These Were
Requests by Users To Put These Buttons In. They Weren\'t There
Originally. The First One Is the Spacing Order Button. It Goes out Again
to AFMSS. Looks for a Spacing Order and it Will Give You the Number of
Acres That Are on the Well and The Well Record in AFMSS. And Basically,
That\'s All it Does. It Lets You Verify the Number of Acres That the
Operator Has Submitted. If You Find a Large Discrepancy There, Then
You\'re Probably Going to Want to Go into AFMSS After You Commit the Apd
and Change Whatever Is Necessary but To Get the Right Information There.
The Case Button Works Exactly The Same. It Gives You the Opportunity to
Check the Number of Acres on the Lease. So, Those Two Buttons Are Just
Strictly There to Be Able to Just Go out and See What You\'ve Got. Check
it and Then Take Care of It Later If That\'s What You Need To Do. Now,
Back on the Ec Header, There Is Another Button That I Mentioned Earlier.
There\'s a Casing Button. If You Want to Look at the Casing Screen, You
Can Look in Your Viewer Packet on Page 16. The Casing Screen Is Strictly
Informational. It Gives You the Data That the Operator Submitted on His
Apd. That\'s All There Is to It. Lets You Look at It. You Can Determine
Whether It\'s Reasonable or Not. If It\'s Just Total Garbage, You Might
Want to Reject the Transaction or Get into after Miss and Check it out
and Take Care of it after You Commit the Apd. Then Back on the Apd
Header Screen, There Is an Attachments Button. And Jim Is Our
Attachments Expert So I\'m Going to Turn it Over to Jim to Let Us Know
about That One a Little Bit.

J. Haerter: Thanks, Gene. I\'m Not Sure That I\'m the Expert But I\'ll
Give it a Shot.

G. Thibodeau: Today, You\'re The Expert.

J. Haerter: Thank You. Pressing the Attachments Button On the Apd Well
Header Screen Will Launch Your Internet Browser. To Begin Viewing the
Attachments That Have Been Submitted along With the Apd. Obviously a
Very Important Part Of Any Apd Are the Attachments. Such as the Well
Location, Survey Plat, Surface Use Plan And Other Types of Information.
These Attachments Are Submitted As We Mentioned Before, in an Adobe
Acrobat Viewer Format and The Way We Handle Them in AFMSS Ec Is to
Launch Your Viewer Browser or to Launch Your Browser Viewer, Pardon Me,
Which Will Bring up the Attachment List Screen. If We Take a Look at the
Attachment List Screen, There\'s Three Main Areas. The Upper Left Corner
Lists, in Order, the Attachments That Have Been Submitted, One or More,
That Have Been Submitted with The Permit Application. The Upper Right
Just Tells You What Type of a ‑‑ Excuse Me. Tells You the Transaction
I.d. And in the Bottom Right Corner Of Your Screen Is a Very Much Scaled
down Version or a Snapshot of What That Attachment Looks Like. By
Highlighting the File Name on The Attachment, We\'ll Actually Bring up
the Complete Attachment Which Will Fill the Entire Screen. At That
Point, You Have Only Two Options. You Can View That Attachment and You
Can Print It. You Won\'t Be Able to Edit or Save It. Once You Have Done
That, and You\'ve Either Viewed or Printed The Document, You Click Close
Window Using the Pulldown Menu In the Upper Right Corner ‑‑ or Excuse
Me, the Upper Left Corner Of Your Screen to Close Your Browser and That
Will Take You Back to the Apd Processing Screen.

G. Thibodeau: Thanks, Jim. To Wrap up the Apd Now, We\'re Almost Done
with It. And Again, this Final Process Is Very Similar to the Nos.
There\'s Going to Be One Difference When I Get to It. But the First
Thing You Would Do Is Enter the Date Received Just Like Linda Talked
About. You Would Hit the Commit to AFMSS Button. Just like Linda Talked
About. And Then You Would Have to Enter The Add Change Effective Date
Just as You Did with the Nos. And this Will Do One Thing a Little Bit
Different from Nos Right Here. If There Had Been an Nos Transaction for
this Well, it Will Create a Pop‑up Screen That Says Close Nos and it
Will Give You the Opportunity to Close That Nos Transaction. I Believe
That You\'ll See the Same Thing If You\'re Actually Not Using Electronic
Commerce But Entering this in AFMSS When You Get All Your Well Data in
There. You\'ll See the Same Kind of Thing That Asks You to Close the Nos
or Not. And Then the Very Last Thing Is If You Did Not Have an Nos, You
Will Want to Go to the Well Header and Put the Additional Information in
That Comes Across on the Apd That Is ‑‑ or That Does Not Come Across On
the Apd That\'s Not Required. And Now You\'re Done with the Apd And You
Can Go on to Whatever Is Next.

P. Brown: Thank You, Gene. That\'s a Good Overview of Processing an Apd.
We\'ve Talked about the Nos. Processing of a Notice of Staking.
Processing an Application for Permit to Drill. And I Suppose the next
Document That We Would Get in the Life Cycle of a Particular Well Would
Be a Well Completion Report or a Completion Report, Whatever You Call
Them in Your Office. Jim, I Wonder If You Could Walk Us Through the
Process in Processing a Well Completion Report.

J. Haerter: Certainly, Paul. This One Is Pretty Easy since Linda and
Gene Have Done Most of The Hard Work for Me. There Is Very Little
Additional Work That Needs to Be Done to Process a Well Completion
Different from an Nos. Or an Apd. Since We Talked about it Before ‑‑
since We Talked about One of The Primary Reasons for Implementing AFMSS
Ec, Was to Limit or Reduce the Amount of Data Entry That Was Required on
The Part of Our Staff, the First Thing You Should Do, I Think You\'re
Probably Ahead of Me on This, Is Press the Validate Button Because If
the Program Can Find Information in Your AFMSS Database, it Will
Populate The Form for You. Let\'s Go to the Well Completion Header and
Turn to Page 19 in Your Viewer Packet. Pressing the Validate Button,
Excuse Me. Right There. Will Cause Any Information That The Computer Can
Find to Populate on the Screen. In Order to Go to the Well Completion
Processing Screen, You Press the Well Header Button. And We\'ll Talk a
Little Bit About the Differences on That Well Header on the next
Graphic. The Differences with the Nos and The Apd Are Located in the
Bottom Right Corner of the Screen. Those Processing Buttons Consist Of
General Data, Production Interval, Casing, Tubing and Treatment, and
Porous Zones and Geologic Markers. They\'re Grouped a Little Differently
than You Might Be Familiar with So Let\'s Talk About Each of Them for a
Few Minutes. The First One That We\'re Going To Talk about Is General
Data. The General Data Viewer Is Included in Your Viewer Packet On Page
20. The Main Action That the Ec Reviewer Has to Perform on this Screen
Is to Verify the Log Data That\'s Been Submitted along with The
Electronic Permit. There\'s Basically Three Ways to Do This. To I\'m
Trying to Catch up Here. I\'m Drawing the Boxes on Your Screen. There\'s
Three Ways to Do This. You Can Copy the Information That the Operator
Has Submitted To the White Box. In the Center of Your Screen. You Can
Select the Log Types From the Available Log Types That Are Contained
Within the AFMSS Database. Or If You\'re Really Good, You Can Just Begin
Typing on the Line to Enter the Log Data. Now, Keep in Mind That
There\'s Only ‑‑ That the AFMSS Database Only Allows up to Seven
Characters in the Log Field. And So You Really Need to Concentrate on
Using Abbreviations. The next Screen That We\'re Going To Go to Is
Located in Your Viewer Packet on Page 21. And That\'s the Producing
Interval Screen. Producing Interval Screen Is Basically Broken down into
Three Parts. The Intervals, Perfs and Production Rate Tests. In the Top
Middle and Lower Part Of Your Screen Respectively. On this Screen, as
You Can See In the Center, Upper Corner ‑‑ Or Upper Center of the
Screen, Is the Formation Information. This Is the Only Viewer Input That
Is Required on this Field And it Is Required. You Need to Enter a Valid
Formation Name That\'s Contained Within Your AFMSS Database. In Order to
Process this Well Completion Permit. We\'ll Go to the next Page, Page
21, to Talk about the Casing and Cementing Screen. This Screen, as You
Can See, Is Completely Blue. And this Information, as with The Apd
Submittal, Is for Verification by the Ec Reviewer Only.

P. Brown: Jim, I Think up on The Screen Right Now, but That Should Be
Page 22 in the Viewer Packet. Not 21.

J. Haerter: Ok. Thank You, Paul for Correcting Me on That. And Finally,
the Last Review Screen That We Want to Talk About Is the Porous Zone
Screen. The Porous Zone Screen, Again, Has Information to Be Verified,
Concerning the Porous Zones or Formation Markers That the Operator Has
Submitted. You\'ll Notice That along the Upper Part of this Screen, the
Operator Has Submitted No Information and So No Data Entry Will Be
Required. You\'re Not Going to Be Able to Press the Find Formation
Button And Fill Information in There. However, in the Middle, in the
Area That\'s Called Zone Markers, The Operator Has Submitted Some Tops
Information and So You\'re Going to Have to Validate Those Tops with the
Formations That You Have in the Data Base. When You Get Back to the Well
Completed Header Screen, the Information Is Going to Be Committed to the
AFMSS Database And the Effective Date Will Be Inserted into the Report.
And That Basically Concludes the Well Completions, Paul.

L. Christensen: Before We Go On to the next Part of the Show, I Would
like to Mention a Little Point on the Producing Interval Screen If I
Could. All of the Completion Screens That We\'ve Used for Electronic
Commerce Review Are Modeled After the Brand New Well Completion Form
That the Bureau Is Using. And the Form Actually Will Allow The Operator
to Specify up to Four Producing Intervals on the New Form and I Know
That There\'s A Lot of Folks Who Haven\'t Seen The New Form So You May
Not Be Aware of it but this Screen Will Allow the Operator ‑‑ Will Allow
The Ec Reviewer to View All of The Producing Intervals That Were
Specified by the Operator On the Wis Entry Screens and the Way You Would
Do That Is You Would See up at the Top of the Screen You Can See over on
the Left‑hand Side, There Is a Little a for Producing Interval A and the
Reason We Picked That Is Just Because That\'s What the New Well
Completion Form Calls It. And You Can Have an A, a B, a C And a D. And
What You Would See at That Point, You Could Click on to a Line in That
Section, If You Had More than One Producing Interval And the Information
in the Lower 2/3 of the Screen Would Then Change. So, You Could Click on
the Line For Producing Interval A. And Everything That Jim Is Circling
for Us There Would Change to Be the Data That Was Supplied to Go with
Producing Interval A. If There Was Another, You Could Click on the
Second Line and the Information about Perforations And Production Rate
Tests Would Change to Go with the Producing Interval B. So, I Just
Wanted to Make Sure Everybody Was Aware of That. As a Matter of Fact,
Right Now, The Web Form Only Allows Them to Enter One Producing Interval
but In the Future, We\'re Going to Be Allowing Them to Enter up to Four
Just to Match the Style of The New Well Completion Form. And That Might
Be a Little Bit Confusing to You Because this Is Something That Most of
the AFMSS Screens Don\'t Do. Usually When They Come Up, They Come up and
What You See Is All You Have to Work On. But on this Particular Screen,
You Do Need to Be Aware If There Are Two Lines up There, You\'ll Need to
Click on Both of Them in The Producing Interval Section Of the Screen in
Order to Be Able to See All of the Data That The Operator Submitted.
Paul?

P. Brown: Thank You, Linda. I Appreciate That Comment. As a Reminder, I
Would like to Mention to Our Viewers in a Few Minutes We\'re Going to Be
Opening up the Phones So We Can Hear from You. So, If You Have a
Question or a Comment or Anything for Our Panel on Anything We\'ve
Covered In Today\'s Workshop, Please Give Us a Call or Send Us a Fax.
That Will Be Occurring in about 10 Minutes Away from Now. So, Please Get
Those Fax Questions and Your Phone Questions Ready to Go Because If We
Don\'t Get Phone Questions or Fax, Gene and I Will Sing a Medley of
Garth Brooks Songs and I\'m Sure You Would Rather Have Us Answer
Questions than Sing Garth Brooks Songs.

L. Christensen: Please Call, Please!

P. Brown: All Right. Well, We\'ve Already Covered the Nos. The Apd. A
Well Completion Report and I Guess We Have One Form Left to Cover.
Sundry Notices. And since the Three of You Have Taken Your Turn Going
Through This Process, I Guess It\'s My Turn to Go Next. What I Would
like to Do Right Now Is Talk to You a Little Bit About How to Process
the Sundry Notice or the Sundry Notices That Would Come In. If You Would
like to Follow Along with Me on Your Viewer Packet Starting on Page 25,
There Are Some Samples of the Screens That I\'ll Be Talking About Now.
Now, the Three Individuals That Have Talked to You Before Had a Pretty
Easy Job in the Sense That Every Screen That Was Introduced Built on the
next Screen or the next Screen Was Built on the First One. Sundry
Notices, the Sundry Screen Is a Little Bit Different Than the Previous
Screens That We Have Looked at for a Number Of Reasons. Partly Because
Sundries Are Different from Apds and Noss and Well Completions. Sundry
Notices Can Be Submitted For a Well. Or a Facility. Or Wells and
Facilities or a Combination of Both. So, They Get Rather Complicated
Very Fast. When We Go into the Sundry Header Screen, That\'s on Page 25
Of Your Viewer Packet, You\'ll Notice a Couple of Different and New
Features. The First Thing You\'ll See at The Top Left of the Screen Is
The Fact That We Now Have a Box That Shows the Type of Sundry That the
Operator Has Tagged With this Particular Submission. And Whether or Not
That Sundry Notice Is a Notice of Intent or A Subsequent Report. You\'ll
Note That the Lease Agreement and Operator Blocks Look a Little Bit
Different from What We\'ve Seen Before. But the Functionality Is
Basically the Same as the Previous Three Screens. We Can Use the Find
Buttons and Display Revised Information as Far as the Lease, the
Agreement, Or the Operator as We Process Through this Sundry Notice.
Again, Those Are on the Top Left‑hand Side. The Function Works the Same
as Previously Seen. It Just Looks a Little Bit Different So Don\'t Let
That Throw You. Once We\'ve Reviewed the Case and Operator and Revised
Lease or Agreement, That Will Show up in The White Block or You Can
Simply Type the Lease in If You Know the Lease by Heart. You\'ll Also
Notice Two New Areas That We\'re Going to Talk about In a Minute. On the
Top Right, You\'ll See a Pair of Buttons Labeled Wells And Facilities,
Subject to the Notice. And Appropriate Counters for the Operator
Submitted Number of Wells or Facilities and the Revised Number of Wells
and Facilities. We\'ll Come Back to That Pair of Buttons in a Moment. At
the Bottom Right Hand Corner Of the Same Screen, You\'ll Notice a Pair
of Buttons Labeled Sundry List for Wells and Sundry List for Facilities.
Again, We Will Come Back and Talk to These Two Buttons in a Little Bit
More Detail. Now, One of the Things That You See on this Screen
Consistent With the Previous Three Processing Screens That We\'ve Looked
at Is Our Friend, the Validate Button. One of the Things I Would like To
Point out Is That the Auto Validation Button on this Screen Will
Probably Work Most Efficiently Here than Any of the Other Three Previous
Processes. Most Likely Because You\'ll Have AFMSS Data in Your System
Related to the Wells or Facilities Coming in on the Sundry Notice.
Rather than Starting a New Record and Trying to Validate it Against Some
Information That Is Already in There. So, Again, That Auto Validate
Button Really Needs to Be Your Friend. It Is Definitely a Laborsaving
Device. Remember to Review and Modify The Data That the Auto Validation
Process Submitted to Make Sure it Really Is the Information That You
Want in There. You Can Correct and Modify it as Necessary after the
Validation Has Occurred. One of the New Things You\'ll Notice in the
Middle Section of This Screen Is a Reminder about Associations of More
Cases, Wells or Facilities than the Operator Has Submitted. One Thing
You\'ll Need to Note Is That You Need to Save Your Work And Go into an
AFMSS Screen to Associate More Wells or More Facilities or More Cases as
Required During Your Processing Part. We\'ll Look at That a Little Bit
More in a Moment. Below That Block, You Will See a Blue Box That You
Cannot Modify But It\'s Basically the Operator\'s Submitted Remarks
Describing the Sundry Notice. Whether It\'s the Proposed Notice Of
Something That the Operator Is Going to Do or Whether It\'s a Report of
Something the Operator Has Already Done. In the Case of a Subsequent
Report Type of Sundry Notice. Let\'s Go Back to the Top Right Pair of
Buttons for Wells and Facilities. The Counter on the Left‑hand Side of
the Button, the Two Buttons, Will Show the Account Of the Operator
Submitted Wells And or the Operator Submitted Number of Facilities.
That\'s to the Left of the Two Buttons on the Top Right‑hand Corner. As
You Add More Wells or Facilities to the Sundry Notice In Associating
Those Wells and Facilities with this Sundry, That Counter Could Change.
And Should Change as You Associate More Wells. Again, on the Bottom of
this Screen, We See Our Normal Set of Button Bars with the Various
Functionality That We\'ve Seen on A Lot of the Other Previous AFMSS
Screens and Will Not Go Into Those in a Whole Lot of Detail at this
Point. But There Is One Item That I Would like to Point out Again. Is
the Validate Button. If We Can Zoom in on the Bottom Part of That. The
Validate Button Basically Does the Auto Validation Functions for You.
The Other Item That I Would like To Show You or the Two Pairs of Buttons
That Are on the Bottom That Are Shown Right Now Which Would Be the
Sundry List for Wells and Sundry List for Facilities. In a Moment, We
Will Come Back And Show You How Those Can Be Short Cuts to Some AFMSS
Screens That You\'ll Use on a Regular Basis. Ok, If We Could Go Back to
the Larger Screen, I Would like to Go Back up and Talk about the New
Buttons, the Pair of New Buttons That Are on the Top Right‑hand Part of
the Screen. About the Wells and Facilities That Are Subject to this
Notice. What I Would like to Do Is Go Into the next Screen by Pressing
On the View Wells Button. And What We\'ll See Is a New Screen That\'s
Basically Split up Into Three Parts. This Is, Again, on Your Viewer
Packet on Page 26. If You Would like to Follow Along. This Particular
Screen Has Three Sections. You\'ll Notice in the Top Block, We Have a
List of the Wells That Have Been Submitted by the Operator, Associated
with this Particular Sundry Notice. In the Bottom Section of the List,
We Have a List AFMSS Wells That Are Associated with the Current Lease or
Agreement Operator Combination That Could Be Associated with this
Sundry. Then in the Middle of the Block, Of That Screen, We Actually
Show A List of Revised AFMSS Wells as We Modify Through the Associated
Wells and or Facilities on this Screen. You\'ll Notice over on the
Right‑hand Side, We Have a Button Labeled Select and Also Above It,
Unselect. BLM Processing Folks Could Add Or Subtract from the Bottom
Part Of the List and Move Wells up From the Bottom Part of the List Into
the Middle Part of the List Screen to Associate More Wells Than the
Operator Initially Submitted. And That Is Only for That Particular Case
Operator Combination. As it Is Shown.

G. Thibodeau: You Notice over On the Right‑hand Side, There Is a Counter
for Each One of Those Sections. To Kind of Helper the User Keep Track of
What He\'s Doing with The Select, Unselect and So On, The Real Key Thing
There Is to Notice That You Cannot Select More Wells than the Operator
Has Submitted. You Just Can\'t Do It.

P. Brown: Ok. At Some Point in the Process, You May Very Well Want to
Associate More Wells or Facilities than the Operator Has Actually
Submitted on this Sundry Notice. You Need to Be Sure to Save and Exit
from this Screen but Go Back into the AFMSS Main Menu And Use Your
Sundry Notice Process to Associate More Wells, Cases, Facilities, What
Have You. That\'s an Excellent Point, Gene. That Will Bring Us Back to
the New Pair of Buttons That\'s on The Previous Screen That We Mentioned
Before. If We Can Get to That Screen. Thank You. In the Bottom
Right‑hand Section, We Pointed out Two New Buttons, the Sundry List for
Wells and the Sundry List for Facilities. Now, I like These Two Buttons
Because They\'re Basically Laborsaving Devices and Short Cuts Back to
the AFMSS Main Menu. Sundry Notice List. If You Have a Particular Well
or Facility Located There, You Click on the Sundry List for Wells. It
Will Take You Back to the Sundry List Screen Showing the Specific Active
Current Sundry Notices for That Particular Well. You Can Modify Your
Associations, Add or Subtract Data There and Come Back. This Is a Short
Cut. The Sundry List for Facility Does the Same Thing. It Is a Shortcut
to Show the List of Facilities for That Particular ‑‑ or Show the List
Of Sundries for That Particular Facility. I Know a Lot of You out There
Are Always Looking for Short Cuts in the Way You Do Your Job. Ok. Once
We Have Modified the Sundry Notice Notes in this Screen, We Can Enter
the Date Received and Commit Our Work to AFMSS. Remember as Linda Said,
Save Often, Save Frequently.

L. Christensen: Save Early, Save Often.

P. Brown: I Knew I Wasn\'t Going to Get it Right. Save Early, Save
Often. You\'ll Notice We Also Have the Capability to Either Reject or
Transfer Any of the Sundry Notices with the Buttons That Are Across the
Bottom Row. We Can Print the Sundry Form. We Can Basically Do Anything
With the Sundry Notice Processing Screen That We Can Do In the Other
Places. Well, Now, We\'ve Covered a Lot Of ‑‑ Linda, Would You like to
Make a Comment?

L. Christensen: I Wanted to Add a Little Bit There. The Sundry Notice
Processing Was Something That We Did Without a Whole Lot of User
Requirement Definition. And the Darn Programmer, I\'m Talking about
Myself, Didn\'t Guess Real Well on Some of That And So the Screens That
You See In Your Viewer Packet Right Now Are What Is in the Current
Software but in Our August Release, We\'ve Made That a Whole Lot More
Flexible. The Screen Design Is Just a Little Bit Different but It\'s a
Lot Easier to Get Around and Actually for the Offices That Are Receiving
Sundries Right Now, or Receiving Electronic Commerce Transmissions,
Sundries Are Causing the Most Trouble. I Want to the Let Everyone Know
If You Get a Sundry and You\'re Having Any Trouble at All Committing it
to AFMSS, Don\'t Reject It. It\'s Not the Operator\'s Fault. It Is My
Fault. Sorry.

P. Brown: I Think That Brings Up Another Point I Think That We Need to
Stress over and over Again Is about the Flexible And Dynamic Nature
AFMSS. If the Users in a Local Field Office Will Work Through Their
AFMSS Application Administrator To Send Us Comments, Changes, We Can Be
Responsive to Those Things and Change These AFMSS Screens as People Work
with Them And Get a Little More Comfortable and Give Us Good Feedback.

J. Haerter: Paul, Don\'t Forget about Your State Representative to the
AFMSS User Group.

P. Brown: That\'s True, Jim. Each Field Office Has Their Own Application
Administrator. They Have a State Aa but They Also Have a User Group
Representative on the User Group For Each One of Those States. Every One
of the AFMSS Users out In the Field Offices Should Know Who Those Three
People Are Because They\'re Your Friend. They Make Things Happen in
AFMSS. Ok. Great. I Think at this Point I Need to Ask a Question. We\'ve
Put a Lot of Data into the System. We\'ve Generated a Lot of Processing
Time in Nos and an Apd and a Sundry Notice and We\'re Doing an Awful Lot
of Activity. But as a Manager out in the Field Offices, Managers Would
Probably Go Well, Ok, You\'re Stuffing All this Data into the AFMSS
Database. What Good Is it If I Can\'t Get a Report to Tell Me about What
Is Going On? Jim, this Is Probably a Loaded Question and I Know the
Answer Already but Is There a Report That We Can Run out of the AFMSS Ec
to Show Us What We\'ve Been Doing with Electronic Commerce?

J. Haerter: I like Those Ones Down the Middle of the Plate, Paul.
They\'re Easy to Handle. We\'re Going to Finish up Today By Talking a
Little Bit about The Ec Reports and They\'re Very Familiar to Most of
Our AFMSS Users. The Reports Pull down Menu from The Splash Screen Is
How You Get There. You Can Follow along in Your Viewer Packet on Page
27. The Ec Report Launch Erwin Dough Comes, as I Said, from the AFMSS
Pulldown Menu and Basically, Represents a Transaction Summary Of the
Information That\'s Been Submitted for Ec Processing. You Can Specify
Criteria Just Like Other Reports Including a Start Date, an End Date for
the Period You Want to Define Your Report. Particular Leases or
Agreements You Want to Be Included with Them, Within That Report.
Operators. Or by Transaction Status. This Is Different from Our Other
Types of Reports. So Those Pending Transactions Were Accepted or
Rejected or Transferred Transactions You Can Also Generate a Report That
Will Get to Those Screens. Submitting this Report Is Basically Going to
Give You a Line Item List of All Transactions of a Given Type. You\'ll
Notice in the Bottom of The Screen, it Basically Breaks Out by Different
Permit Type, All of Those That Are in the Different Categories with
Their Subtotals. Basically, That\'s it for Ec Reports at this Time,
Paul.

P. Brown: Thank You, Jim. I Was Taking Care of a Little Administrative
Item. It Looks like Gene and I Are Not Going to Have to Sing Any Garth
Brooks Songs Because We\'re Getting Faxes Coming In. And That\'s Good
News, I\'m Sure To You as Well as it Is to Me. That Concludes Our
Overview of The Ec Permit Processing. In Summary, We Have Just Covered
The Ec Reviewer\'s Responsibility, the Ec Review Process and the Screens
Associated with That. Specifics on How to Process an Nos, an Apd, a Well
Completion Report and a Sundry Notice Including Any Attachments That
Might Come along with Them. Before We Go Any Further, I Would like to
Give You an Idea About What Is Already Happening Out There in the Field
Offices With Active Ec Submissions. We Currently Have 26 Assigned
Accounts for Operators That Can Submit Ec Transactions. 11 of Which Are
Actively Submitting Transactions as We Speak. We Have Another 15
Companies or So Who Have Expressed an Interest in Securing an Account
And Submitting Transactions. Currently, Only 10 of Our 31 Field Offices
Are Receiving Active Transmissions from These Operators. Vernal, Utah.
Miles City, Montana and Durango, Colorado. Along with Buffalo, Pinedale,
Casper, Rawlins and Newcastle in Wyoming Are Seeing a Modest Level of Ec
Submissions. As Gene Mentioned, to Date, the Bureau Has Received over
1,000 Submissions. About 950 of Those Were Related To the Coal Bed
Methane Well Prospect in Northeast Wyoming. In Addition, Another Ten
Noss, Five Well Completions and 45 Sundry Notices Are Showing up in The
Remaining Nine Field Offices. Now, It\'s Your Turn. I Know You\'ve Been
Waiting for This. We\'ve Reserved the Rest of Today\'s Show to Hear from
You! So, Get the Fingers Dialing and Send in the Faxes!

P. Brown: I Guess the First Fax We Have Here and Jim or Gene, I Think
You Would like to Field This. You Can Decide Who Wants to Jump On This.
It Is from Paz in Montana. Since BLM Receives the Electronic Copy, Will
the System Allow BLM to Forward the Electronic Submission to Other Smas,
Ie, the Bureau of Reclamation, Other BLM Services With Surface
Jurisdiction, Forest Service, Park Service, Corps of Engineers, Et.
Cetera, Without Having to Print out a Hard Copy? How about Access to
These Agencies via an Internet Connection?

G. Thibodeau: If I Say Something Wrong, You Can Correct Me. The Only
Thing We Need in Order To Do That Is First of All, We Need Permission ‑‑
I Mean BLM Has to Be Willing to Give up the Data to Whoever Is Asking
for It, the Smes, the Forest Service, Whoever it Is. The Second Thing Is
We Need an Ip Address for the Server That We\'re Going to Send the Data
to Along with If There\'s a Fire Wall, We Need Fire Wall Access.
Basically, Everything Is Right Now in Place to Do That. Technically, it
Can Be Done and You Know, If We Just Get the Ip Address, the Ok from BLM
Because We Do Have Confidential Type Data That We Need to Concern
Ourselves With. From a Technical Standpoint, Serving in Place to Do That
and We Could Do it Very Easily.

J. Haerter: Obviously, the Receiving Agency to Would Have To Have the
Capability to Print Out Our Data in Some Form Because More than Likely
They\'re Not Going to Be as Enlightened As We Are and They\'re Going to
Like to Look at a File Copy or a Printed Copy of the Permit to Be Able
to File Away That They Had Received from BLM.

P. Brown: Ok, Ladies and Gentlemen. We\'ve Got a Number of Faxes That
Are Coming in So We\'re Going to Speed up the Process Just a Little Bit
Here. What I Want to Make Sure Is If You Sent in a Fax and We Don\'t
Completely Answer Your Question On Air, Please Give Us a Follow‑up in
the Form of an E‑mail. Thank You. We Have Another Fax from Ruth in
Durango. Says How Are the Following Dealt With to Complete an Approved
Apd? This Is Requesting from the Operator Certain Surface Use Agreements
and Returning to the Operator Conditions of Approval Bia Concurrence or
Stipulations, Et Cetera. I Think That\'s a Two‑part Question and Jim?
Ok. Linda?

L. Christensen: Well, Right Now There Isn\'t Anything in the Feedback
Loop to the Operators That Would Allow Us to Send Any Kind of Conditions
of Approval Back to the Operator. In the Future Though, We Do Plan To
Have That Kind of a Capability Available That We Would Probably Just Be
Able to Send the Conditions of Approval And Any Additional Documentation
To the Operator via E‑mail. I Don\'t Think We Showed You the Screen
Where the Operator Requests an I.d. But They Do Provide Us with Their
E‑mail Address and When We Get That Part of the Feedback Loop in Place,
That Would Be a Very Viable Option.

P. Brown: One Thing I Might Want to Point Out. The Surface Use Agreement
Could Be Attached Electronically to The Apd as an Attachment.

L. Christensen: Their Surface Use Plan Would Come in That Way, Yes.

P. Brown: We Have Another Fax From Jim in Wyoming. How Does AFMSS Ec
Support Operators or Permit Agents Who Have Already Automated Their
Permits or Reports? Will They Have to Manually Input This Already
Automated Data Using the Wis Web Formats, Discuss Electronic Submissions
That Bypass the Website Input? For Example, Doing Numerous Coal Bed
Methane Permits. That\'s the First Question. I Guess Maybe We Ought to
Answer That First. Linda?

L. Christensen: Well, Right Now, We\'re Not Currently Accepting
Submissions from Operators That Are in a Format Other than Entered
Through the Web but We\'ve Had Requests to Be Able to Accept File
Formats for Like Mass Filings If They Wanted To Submit a Whole Bunch of
Sundry Notices on a Field or Something like That. And the Main Thing
That We Need To Do Is Just Spend a Little Time Deciding What the Format
of The File Would Be So That We Can Accept It. As We Found out with
Greystone, There Is a Problem Going Through Just Taking a File Because
We Didn\'t Get a Chance to Run it Through All of Our Data Cleanup
Routines and That\'s What We Definitely Need to Have in Place To Make
Sure the Data Coming Through Was Good.

P. Brown: Ok. Thanks for That Fax. We Have a Question from Dan. How
Secure Is AFMSS from ‑‑ Excuse Me. I Can\'t Quite Read This. How Secure
Is AFMSS from Viruses And Denial of Attackers? Do Scans Have to Be
Performed?

L. Christensen: You Don\'t Have to Be Concerned about Viruses. The
Documents That Are Sent in As Attachments Are Stored in Pdf Format Which
Means There\'s Nothing Executable about Them. All You Can Do Is View
Them or Print Them. They\'re Not Transferred to Your AFMSS Server. They
Remain on the Well Information System Server and That\'s Where They\'ll
Stay. So, Don\'t You Have to Be at All Concerned about Any Kind of
Infected Documents Coming to Your Office.

P. Brown: We\'ve Got a Fax From Jeff in Bakersfield. I Think We Lost
Part of the Second Page of the Fax So We\'ll Only Be Able to Handle a
Couple Of Questions. First, How Is the 30‑day Apd Posting Period
Handled? Will We Have an Electronic Version on the Web Which Is the
Public Can View in Addition to Making a Hard Copy and Posting It? Jim?
Do You Want to Field That One?

J. Haerter: That\'s a Very Good Question, Paul. To Answer the First
Part, the Way I Understand It, the 30‑day Posting Period Will Start the
Day That That Permit Is Accepted For Review by the AFMSS Ec Reviewer. As
Far as Posting the Information on to the Web, That\'s Something That\'s
Going to Be to to Have Been Handled in a Local Situation or in a
Statewide Situation and Certainly Would Be Something for The Web Masters
or Webmeisters That Are out There to Be Thinking About. It Is an
Excellent Suggestion And One That We Might Want to Think about and Talk
about a Lot More.

P. Brown: I Have Another Fax From Lander. Jim, this Is Probably Another
Good Question for You. Onshore Order Number One Does Not Require Bond
Number or Formation at Nos Option. As They Are Key Field Requirements,
Will They Still Be Accepted and I\'m Assuming the Reader ‑‑ That the
Individual Is Asking If They\'re Left Blank.

J. Haerter: since Onshore Order Doesn\'t Require the Bond At the Nos
Stage, I Would Say Yes. That Permit Would Be Accepted For Review at That
Point. That Information Would Have to Be Submitted in Order for the
Subsequent Apd to Be Considered Complete and Accepted for Review.

P. Brown: Ok, Great. Let\'s See. I Think We Have a Duplicate There So
I\'m Going to Jump past That. This Is a Fax from Diane. For Apd Related
Rights of Ways, Are the Land Staff Going to Be Trained to Use this
Electronic Form System? The Apds, Maps, Plan of Development Are Used to
Determine the Right‑of‑way Approval and Copies Placed in The
Right‑of‑way File. What Is the Plan to Hand this Will Situation? In
Other Words, Are We Going to Use AFMSS for Right‑of‑way Tracking?
Anybody?

J. Haerter: I\'ll Handle That One, Paul. The Answer Is We Don\'t Really
Know the Right Answer. We\'ve Been Talking about this in The AFMSS User
Group Quite Extensively. We Have Some Surface Specialists And Some
Adjudicators That Are Very Interested in Finding out The Answer to the
Question. A Quick and Dirty Answer for You Is Yes, There Is Training
Planned. And We Would Encourage You to Contact Your Local Application
Administrator and Your Local Training Coordinator to Make Sure That You
Avail Yourself of The Training That Might Be Held Here at the NTC or in
Locations Around the Country. As Far as the Process, I Think We\'re
Going to Have to Wait a While until Users Get a Little Bit of after Miss
Ec Experience Under Their Belt. And Then We\'ll Make the Decisions as We
Go Along. One of the Things That We\'ve Seen over and over Again Is
AFMSS Does Drive Policy Decisions in the Bureau. If Nothing Else, it
Forces Us to Begin Seriously Talking about Making Those Policy
Decisions. Paul?

P. Brown: I Think You\'ve Just Given Yourself an Excellent Lead‑in to
the next Question That Has Something to Do With That. I\'m Trying to Get
These Other Guys a Question. We Have Another Fax from Casper. This Is
One of My Favorites. Are Offices Still Making Copies From Electronic
Commerce? Will Will There Be an Im on Not Making Copies or Are You Going
To Make Recommendations about This? Will There Be Recommendations For
Office Procedures and I\'m Reading in Between the Lines Ie A Formal
Policy?

J. Haerter: the Bottom Line Is We Don\'t Know. We Don\'t Expect One. Our
Suggestion, Our Recommendation Is That Offices Try and Minimize the
Numbers of Copies That They\'re Making from The Ec Transactions That
They\'re Reviewing. Obviously in Certain Cases, Field Inspectors, Pets,
Will Want to Have Some Copies of Permits to Take to the ‑‑ or May Want
to Have Some Copies of Permits to Take to the Field. We\'re Hoping That
at Some Point We\'re Going to Get Laptops in The Field for All of Our
Pets And They Won\'t Need to Do That Either. But the Short Answer Is No.
We Don\'t Expect Any Policy Decisions. On Making Copies. I Think It\'s
Going to Be up to The Local Office.

P. Brown: Ok, Great. Linda, You\'re Going to Need to Put Your Thinking
Hat and Crank Up Your Crystal Ball on this Next Fax. I Have a Fax from
Chuck in Miles City. It Says If Paper Copies Are No Longer Required, How
Can You Assure Me That I\'ll Be Able to See this Data Ten or 15 or 20
Years from Now? As Data Formats Change, How Can We Be Sure the Format
for Electronic Submission Will Still Be Accessible in the Future?

L. Christensen: That Really Was Something That We Struggled With. When
We Were Designing the Process to Handle Attachments. And That\'s Why We
Went with the Adobe Be a Acrobat Reader Format. It Is an Industry
Standard for Viewing and Printing Text and Graphic Information. It Has
Been Around for Years. It\'s Been Adopted by Most Major Software
Packages as a Format That They Can Read and Interpret. And it Works on
Just about Every Printer. So, We Decided Not to Try to Store the
Operator Submissions In Their Native Format like Word Or Word Perfect
Because Those Can Change and Who Knows What We\'ll Be Using Ten Years
from Now. But What We Do Store Them in Is Adobe Pdf Format and at a
Point When the Format Becomes No Longer Viable, There Will Be
Translation Processes That We\'ll Need to Run to Upgrade Them to The New
Format. That\'s How We Hope to Keep the Documents Viable over the Long
Term.

P. Brown: Ok. Great. I Would like to Take Time to Answer a Fax from
Joanna in Denver. She Asked a Number of Questions. We\'ll Go Through
These One at a Time. It Says Once an Application Is Approved Through
Electronic Commerce, Does it Automatically Transfer into AFMSS? Once an
Appear Case Is Approved Through Electronic Commerce, Does it Transfer
into AFMSS?

G. Thibodeau: Correct. Did I Pass?

P. Brown: Yes, You Did.

L. Christensen: Is That Your Final Answer?

P. Brown: She Noticed on the Ec List That Often the Api Number Column
Was Blank. Will Api Numbers Not Be Available on this List? Linda?

L. Christensen: Actually, the Example in Your Packet There Was Just Test
Data and as it Turned Out, I Didn\'t Enter the Api Number on Those So
the Real Transactions That Come in Do Require an Api Number Where It\'s
Applicable and You\'ll See That On the Finder\'s Screen.

P. Brown: One More from Joanna. You Mention an Operator ‑‑ If an
Operator Makes an Error, He or She Has the Option to Delete the
Information. What If He or She Only Has a Correction in One Field? Do
They Still Have to Start All Over Again?

G. Thibodeau: No. They Can Correct One Field and I Think Where the
Confusion Is There Is I Talked about a Clear Button and the Purpose of
That Clear Button Is If There Were Just ‑‑ You Just Made a Mess. You
Just Got to the Point Where You Didn\'t Know What You Were Doing and You
Just Wanted to Completely Clear the Thing out And Start All Over.
That\'s What You Would Do. That\'s the Clear Button. But There Is No
Problem with Going Back and Fixing up One Field.

P. Brown: Linda, Did You Want To Elaborate on That?

L. Christensen: I Think What The Viewer Might Have Been Going After Is
If the Operator Had Submitted a Well Completion Report and Needed to
Submit an Amended with Slightly Different Data in a Few Fields Because
That\'s Come up in Farmington, Right Now the Website Does Not Handle
That. They Would Have to Submit a Completely New Completion Report And
They Would Have to Say in The Comments That It\'s an Amended Report.
However, it Was a Really Good Request from Maurice Johnson Down in
Farmington to Allow the Operator to Select an Existing Report in the
Future and Be Able To Flag it as Amended Then Supply Us with That Data.
So, That Is a Great Idea. It Is Something We Didn\'t Think About
Originally So That\'s an Enhancement That Will Probably Be in the
Release in February.

P. Brown: Ok. We Have a Fax Here from Casper With a Three‑part Set of
Questions. And I Think the First One Has to Do with Attachments. It Says
How Can the Professionals, Engineers, Surface Clients or Geologists, Et
Cetera, Be Able to Access the Attachments to View Them and Work from
Them? Jim?

J. Haerter: Well, I Think as Long as Users Are Authorized Access to That
Particular Permit, They\'re Authorized the Same Access to the
Attachments And the Buttons Work the Same Way.

L. Christensen: Well, after The Transaction Is Saved ‑‑ Maybe it Is a
New Button a Lot Of People Haven\'t Noticed Before. On the Approval
Screen, There Is An Attachment Button There and If it Is an Electronic
Commerce Transaction That Does Have Attachments, the Button Will Appear
Active. If There Are No Attachments, it Will Be Greyed out but It\'s on
The Approval Screen in after Miss and That\'s How Folks Would View
Attachments after the Transaction Has Been Committed.

P. Brown: Excellent Point. Here Is Another Question from Casper. How
Does the Ec Reviewer Know That the Casing, Cementing Information Is
Correct or the Apd General Screen Information Is Correct?

L. Christensen: Well, How Do You Know the Hard Copy Is Correct?

P. Brown: I Think the Ec Reviewer Is the Gatekeeper And Gets The
Information from Point a to Point B Then Is the Responsibility of
Whoever Processes the Paper Version Of That Same Information to Verify
on The Screen That That Information Is Correct.

J. Haerter: Based on Their Information or Their Experience, They Look at
It, Verify it at Least Appears Reasonable or They Ask the Engineer or
the Other Technical Person to Verify it For Them.

P. Brown: Ok, Good. Gene, I\'m Going to Give this One To You and I
Already Know the Answer. Who Is the Ec Reviewer in Most Offices?

G. Thibodeau: Well, it Should Be the Person That\'s Probably Already
Doing the Data Entry for AFMSS Now. That Would Be My Take on it but
It\'s Really an Office Call. It Can Be Anyone in the Office. It Can Be
the Aa If You Want. It Is Not an Ots Call. It Is a BLM Call.

P. Brown: and It\'s Not My Call or Jim\'s Call but it All Depends on the
Local Office. However They Want to Set up Whoever They Want to Set up
the Ec Reviewer. One, as a Primary and Two as a Backup. And Beyond That,
You Guys Are on Your Own.

G. Thibodeau: it Should Be Someone Familiar with AFMSS.

P. Brown: Ok. Let\'s Go to Another Fax. Ed in Vernal Asks, What Is the
Status of Returning Electronic Approvals to the Operators. I\'m Assuming
Ed Is Asking about An Electronic Response of the Approval Back to the
Operator.

L. Christensen: That\'s Something We Talked about in Response to Another
Question. The Facility for the Feedback Loop Is Not There Right Now but
We Hope to Have it in the ‑‑ Probably the February Release Again. We\'ll
Be Able to Send Conditions Of Approval and That Sort of Thing Right Back
to the Operator.

P. Brown: Thank You, Linda. One Point I Would like to Reinforce out
There in the Field Offices Is That Please Include Your Name. It Could Be
Your First Name and Your Location, Your Telephone Number. If We Don\'t
Cover Your Fax in This Question and Answer Period During the Broadcast,
We Would Like to Get Back in Touch with You to Reply to Your Question.
If You Leave Your Name and Telephone Number off There, We\'re Not Going
to Be Able to Get Back in Contact with You Unless I\'m Really Good at
Recognizing Your Handwriting. Ok. We Have a Three‑part, Actually a
Four‑part Question from an Anonymous Source. They Didn\'t Fill in Their
Name Or Phone Number. Jim, I Think You Probably Could Address this First
Item. After an Ec Transmission Comes In, How Does the Ec Reviewer Pass
it on to the next Person Who Needs to Review or Approve?

J. Haerter: Well, this Is Another One of Those Grey Areas, Paul. Once
the Ec Reviewer Has Accepted That Permit into the AFMSS Database, it Is
Basically Treated the Same Way as Any Other Permit. And That Would Be
Office Specific. If It\'s Handled in Your Office That You Notify the
Engineer via An E‑mail That There Is an Nos Or an Apd Ready for Their
Examination, Then That\'s the Way It Would Happen with the Ec. This
Wouldn\'t Be Any Different.

P. Brown: Ok. Thank You. All Right. Let\'s See. We Have a Couple of More
Faxes Here to Work Through. And Again, I\'m Going to Reinforce If We
Didn\'t Cover All Your Questions That You Faxed in And I Don\'t Read
Them on the Air, We\'ll Either Come Back to Those or We\'ll Reply after
the Broadcast. Does BLM Plan to Make Any Changes Related to the Process
Used for 30‑day Posting of Apds, For Example, E‑mailing Copies to
Special Interest Groups?

J. Haerter: I Can Try to Answer That, Paul. Right Now, There\'s None
Anticipated. The 30‑day Posting Period Is Statutory. That\'s a
Regulation and We Can\'t Do Anything about Reducing That Period of Time.
It Certainly Is One of the Goals Or Objectives and If There\'s a Whole
Lot of Interest out There In Industry in Filing Electronic Permits and
Shortening the Turnaround Time on Their Approval, Perhaps That\'s
Something That Could Happen. But Could Is the Operative Word Here.

P. Brown: Good Answer Because The Individual Who Wrote This Question
Continued to Say We Urge BLM to Continue Using The Current Process. One
Other Question off the Same Fax. If BLM Determines Revisions to An Apd,
How Will the Revisions Be Made? For Example, Will the Operator Submit
Information Be Edited or Will Stipulations and Conditions Of Approval Be
Attached to the Apd? The Use of Attachments Is Greatly Preferred. I Kind
of Gave You Your Answer There, Linda. In the Sense of How Do We Get The
Information Back to the Operator Right Now as Opposed to In the Future?

L. Christensen: Well, Right Now, the Only Thing the Operator Would See
Is a Change in Status On the Pending ‑‑ I\'m Sorry, the Previous
Submission Screen on The Web Page. The Operator Would Be Able to See
That It\'s Been Accepted. However, Right Now, There Isn\'t Any Kind of a
Feedback Loop That Goes Back to the Operator That Would Allow You to
Send along Any Additional Information Besides the Fact That it Was
Accepted or Approved.

P. Brown: Thank You, Linda. I Want to Go Back to a Question That Showed
up on an Earlier Fax. What If an Office Does Not Want To Accept
Electronic Commerce.

L. Christensen: We\'ll Send a Really Big Guy to Have a Talk With Them.

P. Brown: I Think this Falls Into a Policy and Procedure Question. I
Think That Every Office Has The Capability to Accept Electronic Commerce
Right Now. Operators Have the Capability to Send Electronic Submissions
to Any Field Office That They Choose To. And I\'m Not Sure Whether We
Want To Discuss Right Now Whether BLM Offices Could Choose as Policy Not
to Recognize That Electronic Submission. I Think That Would Be a Good
Question for Field Office Managers to Ask Themselves to Say Will We Get
on this Electronic Commerce Bandwagon? And I Hope Your Answer Would Be
Yes.

J. Haerter: I Hope We\'ve Talked about Enough of the Benefits for Both
BLM and for Operators to Convince Field Offices and Their Managers That
This Is Really a Good Idea. This Is in Their Interest.

L. Christensen: and What We Found in the Offices That Are Using it So
Far Is That Maybe Apds Are a Little Bit Top Heavy For Electronic
Commerce with the Various Baggage That Goes On, The Attachments and All
the Conditions of Approval and Such Like That. But for Well Completion
Reports And Sundries, You Get a Lot More Sundries and You\'re Going to
Be Able to Save an Awful Lot of Time. I Know That it Looked Cumbersome
And Tedious on the Screens but It Really Is Pretty Easy and Fast Once
You Get the Hang of it And it Will Save

Lot of Data Entry Time Just In Volume on Sundries and in the Quantity of
Data on Well Completion Forms Because They\'re So Voluminous, Most
Offices Don\'t Enter Them Now Anyway.

J. Haerter: I Want to Follow Up on That. A Point We Didn\'t Make Today
Was That as a Geologist, I Would Love to Have the Ability to Call Up a
Well Completion or a Sundry Notice or a Subsequent Report to Be Able to
View this Information In AFMSS Without Having to Go to The Well File.
And If There Is Actually a Reviewer Process and That Information Is
Validated and Correct. It Would Save Me a Lot of Time. Paul?

P. Brown: Thank You. Another Question That\'s Kind of Along the Same
Lines and I\'m Going to Read Between the Lines A Little Bit on this
Particular Question. Is That Has AFMSS or Actually a Question Is Has Ec
Been Accepted As a Quote‑unquote Official Record?

J. Haerter: Well, the Answer To That Is Yes, Paul. An Electronically
Submitted Document Has a Validated Signature and Is Treated as an
Official Record in the Sense That You\'re Asking, I Believe.

P. Brown: We\'re Going to Jump Around and Go Back to Some Of The
Original Questions That Were Submitted. And Try to Make Sure We Answer
All of the Questions. Back on Some of the Information That the Operators
Would Be Able To View, Is There Currently Any Plans or Do We Have the
Current Capability for Operators to View AFMSS Data Such Things like
Well History? Linda?

L. Christensen: Well, I Think That Was Part of Our Pie in the Sky
Requirements Is That Eventually Operators Would Be Able to View Certain
Parts AFMSS Data for Their Own Wells, Specifically. But Right Now,
That\'s Not in Place. We Do Send Back the Status of Their Ec
Transactions Right Now There\'s No Query Capability for AFMSS and I Have
No Idea When That Would Be Started. Or If.

P. Brown: Here Is Another Question. Will Operators Be Say Lowed to File
Annual Plans of Development Electronic If Plat Information Is Supplied
by Overnight Courier? Jim, Do You Want to Field That One?

J. Haerter: Plans of Development Aren\'t Even on the Drawing Board at
this Point. So, I Believe the Answer to Your Question Is No. Linda
Talked about an Apd Being A Top Heavy Document. I Haven\'t Looked at
Many Plans Of Operation but I Would Anticipate That That Would Be a
Whole Lot of Information and it Would Be Very Difficult to Develop
Something That Could Accept That Information Electronically.

P. Brown: Linda, this Is a Good One for You. Once an Operator Has Sent
Us a Submission Electronically, Will They Be Able to Validate the
Information on the Electronic Filing?

L. Christensen: Do You Think They Mean the BLM Revisions Here?

P. Brown: I\'m Not Sure. I Don\'t Have Enough Information To Interpret
That.

L. Christensen: If this Isn\'t What You Meant, Send Us Another Fax or
Call Us. Right Now, the Operators Do Not Receive the BLM Revised
Information like If You Go in And Specify the Actual Lease or The Actual
Agreement. They\'re Not Seeing That. That\'s Not Part of the Feedback
Loop. However, it Is Available and I Really Do Believe That Just Within
a Couple of Months Definitely Before the End of the Year We\'ll Have
That Available So That the Operators Will Be Able to See Exactly What
the BLM Revisions Were and Their next Submission Will Be with Much More
AFMSS Ready Data. If You Will. Paul?

P. Brown: Let\'s Continue to Plug on Through These Faxes That We\'re
Getting. We\'ll Answer These That Had Multiple Questions On. I\'m
Dealing with Too Many Pieces Of Blue Paper up Here. We Have Another
Question from Jeanie in the Pinedale Office. This Is Directed to Linda.
Could You Please Re‑explain the Form Buttons on the Nos Ec Header Screen
and What it Is Used For.

L. Christensen: Sure. The Form Button Is Something You Don\'t Normally
See on an AFMSS Screen and What it Is Used for Is to Create an Exact
Replica of A BLM Form like a Notice of Staking Form That\'s In, I
Believe Called the Gold Book, Isn\'t It, That\'s Handed out to The
Operators. If You Press the Form Button on The Ec Header Screen or the
Print Form Button on the Ec List Screen, it Will Do the Same Thing. It
Will Bring up an Image of the Form with the Operators\' Original Data
Filled in So If You Did Want to Just Print out a Copy for Your Files as
If it Came in Through Regular Mail, That\'s What You Would Do. It Brings
up the Normal AFMSS Preview Window So That You Can Print it out and
Follow Your Normal Processing with it and That\'s Probably What Most
Offices Are Going to Do to Start Off. Realistically, You\'re Not Going
To Change Everything. Just Because You\'re Getting Things
Electronically, the First Thing You\'ll Do Is Print Them Off and Stick
Them in a File. We Know That. It Doesn\'t Hurt Our Feelings. We\'ll Grow
on this as We Get Along Further in the Process. Paul?

P. Brown: I Think We Have Probably at Least a Half a Dozen More
Questions. Trying to Give a Quick Count Here and See How We\'re Doing on
Answering the Questions. Jim, this Is Kind of Outside the Scope of Our
Broadcast Right Now But I Think We Need to Answer This Question. What Is
the Status of the Revisions to Onshore Order Number One? Will the Ec
Requirements Be Incorporated with Those Revisions?

J. Haerter: My Understanding Of the Onshore Order Number One Is That
That Would Be Included In the Proposed Regulations. The Proposed
Regulations Are Currently under Review and Being Revised. They\'re in
Draft Form and We Expect Them to Be Issued at Some Point Here but
Electronic Commerce, I Don\'t Believe Was Anticipated and Wouldn\'t Be
Included in the Proposed Regulations.

P. Brown: We Have a Couple More Fax Questions Here We\'re Going to Be
Able to Get Back To. Back on the Right‑of‑way Issue And Some of the
Other Individuals Who Use AFMSS as Related to the Oil and Gas Activity,
Question about What About Right‑of‑ways or Right‑of‑way Specialists Who
Need Copies of Apds for Their File? What Are the Other Offices Doing
About This? Gene, You Want to Talk about Printing and Filing?

G. Thibodeau: You Know, I Really Don\'t. And the Reason Is Because ‑‑

P. Brown: Is That Your Final Answer?

G. Thibodeau: That\'s My Final Answer. As a Contractor, We Try Not to
Get Involved in Any Kind of Policy That Goes on Within the BLM.

P. Brown: Ok.

L. Christensen: but My Answer Is If They Would like to Print Out a Copy,
They Can Just Go to The Apd Approval Screen Which Is The Regular Old
Approval Screen. There Is an Attachment Button There. They Could Print
it Out. And If They Need a Copy of the Form, They Can Get Their Ec
Reviewer to Print out a Copy of The Form for Them.

P. Brown: Excellent. Again, Every Office Is Going to Be Different. And
Each Office Will Have to Work Through Some Processes and Some Procedures
for Dealing with These Things.

J. Haerter: I Think a Follow‑up or an Additional Answer to That Question
since I\'m Obviously a Proponent of Not Printing out Extra Copies If You
Don\'t Need Them, If You Have Right‑of‑way Specialists in Your Office
That Need to Process Sundry Notices or Apd Conditions Of Approval, it
Would Make Sense To Get Them in and Train Them on Using AFMSS to Be Able
to Do at Least a Portion of Their Job. Specifically Directed to
Electronic Permits.

P. Brown: Excellent Point, Jim. We Have Another Question Here That Goes
Back to Our Standards And How We Developed the Internal AFMSS Standards.
I Think That Think Is Probably a Good Question for Gene since I\'m
Trying to Give Him a Question Here. Under Omb Circular a 1‑30, How Does
AFMSS Ec Meet Pidx Electronic Commerce Standards Such as Ansi
Transaction Set?

J. Haerter: Oh, Man, Talk About a Lob. That\'s Not Fair.

G. Thibodeau: I Know Where That Came From.

P. Brown: I Think You Do Know Where it Came From.

G. Thibodeau: I\'m Going to Have a Difficult Time with It Because I
Don\'t Know What the Omb Blah Blah Dash Blah Blah Is. I Would Have to
Understand That In Order to Answer the Question. Now, We Do Have Within
the Whole Ec Process, We Do Have Standard Output Files That We Can Send
Off to the States like We Were Talking About. We Have a Flat File with a
Standard Format and We Have an Access Database That We Can Send Out with
a Standard Format. But I Don\'t Know That That\'s Really Getting to the
Omb and The 625 Stuff and That Kind of Thing.

P. Brown: I Think, Needless To Say, the Bottom Line Is We Work Quite
Closely with Ansi and Pidx and All of Those Standards Have Been
Incorporated into the AFMSS Process.

G. Thibodeau: They Have.

P. Brown: it Looks like We\'re Getting down to the Bottom Of Our Pile of
Our Fax Questions. I Think We\'ve Covered Just about Every Fax and Every
Question That We\'ve Received So Far. With the Exception of a Couple
From Bakersfield and We Dropped The Second Page Questions Three And Four
from Jeff\'s Fax from Bakersfield. We\'ll Go Back to His. And We\'ll See
If We Can Get Those Questions Three and Four Back in Here. Jeff, If
You\'re Still Watching The Broadcast, If You Could Resubmit Your Fax,
Especially The Second Page, or Call In, Since We\'ve Not Had Any Callers
Yet, We\'ll See If We Can Answer Your Third and Fourth Question. I Guess
Nobody Likes to Hear Their Voice on the Air. Either That or All the
Phone Lines Are down and All We Have Is Fax this Morning. Going Back to
Jeff from Bakersfield. We Answered His First Question But I Would like
to Continue on In the Same Fax and Answer the Second, Third and Fourth
Questions. If the Person Who Currently Processes Permits No Longer Has A
Paper Copy Showing up on Their Desk and They Do Not See the Pending Ec
Button, How Do They Know They Have a Pending Permit For Processing? Do
They Have to Go into AFMSS And Check the Various Screens?

L. Christensen: Even Though This Is the Electronic Age, this Doesn\'t
Preclude Interpersonal Communication. You May Have to Go Talk to Your
Co‑worker and Let Them Know There\'s Something There That Needs Their
Attention. If for Some Reason That Proves To Be Too Cumbersome for You,
We Have the Pending Data Screens That Are Available off the Well Header
‑‑ the Well Finder Screen For Pending Well Reports, Pending Apds and
Pending Sundry Notices and You Could Actually Go in and Check Those If
You\'re Not the Ec Reviewer and See If There\'s Anything There That
Needs Your Attention. That\'s All in AFMSS Right Now.

P. Brown: Ok. Great.

J. Haerter: Just a Follow‑up To That. I Think We\'ve Talked about Enough
Different Things Today to So That Viewers Understand That This Is a
Learning Process. We\'re Just Making this up as We Go along and the Best
Way to Handle this Is to Sit down with Your Co‑workers and Ask Them What
a Reasonable Suggestion Might Be to Answer this Question In Your
Particular Office.

L. Christensen: That\'s Right, Jim. Every Office That\'s Implemented Ec
at this Point That\'s Receiving Transactions Has Had To Spend a Little
Bit of Time Defining New Business Practices Just to Be Able to Know What
to Do with All of this Stuff.

P. Brown: Ok. We\'re Going to Take Some Time And Do a Couple More Faxes
and Then We\'re Going to Wrap Things Up Here from Phoenix. One More
Question. Can You Use the Transfer Button To Send the Copy to a Non‑BLM
Entity?

J. Haerter: No.

P. Brown: Thank You, Jim.

G. Thibodeau: I Could Have Answered That.

P. Brown: Transfer Only Works Internally with BLM. But Not to Another
Non‑BLM Office. Think That Just about Wraps it Up. I Would like to Thank
Everyone For Their Questions and Comments. If We Didn\'t Get to Your
Question or Your Comment, Please Go Ahead and Send it in and We\'ll Get
to That Later. If You Need Any Additional Information, Feel Free to
Contact Any of Us for Details. You\'ve Got Our Numbers. Before We Close
the Broadcast, I Would like to Ask Our Panel If They Have Any Closing
Thoughts To Share with Us.

J. Haerter: the First Thing I Would like to Say Is I Would Like to Thank
All of the Viewers Out There for All of Your Comments and Questions and
All Of the Hard Work That You ‑‑ All Of the Hard Work That It\'s Taken
To Bring Ec to this Point. And Secondly, I Would like to Thank the AFMSS
User Group. Basically, All of the Suggestions and Comments and Questions
and Concerns That We Receive from All the Technical BLM Professionals in
the Field Are Filtered Through the User Group and by Filtered, I Mean
They\'re Just Assigned a Specific Priority for the Developers to Make
Their Lives a Little Bit Easier and to Figure out How Urgent Is Urgent
or How Important Is Important. Thanks a Lot to the User Group. They
Really Work Hard and They Like to Hear from You.

P. Brown: Jim, I Would like To Thank You for Running The John Madden Pen
on Our Telecast. I Think Mr. Madden, You Could Give Him a Run for His
Money on Nfl Football.

J. Haerter: Thanks.

P. Brown: and I\'ve Just Been Notified That Jim Is the Very First
Individual to Use That New Piece of Technology in an NTC Broadcast. So,
Congratulations, Jim. You\'ve Made History Today.

J. Haerter: Thank You, Paul.

P. Brown: Gene, Do You Have Final Thoughts You Would Like to Share with
Us?

G. Thibodeau: I Do. I\'m Going to Get Away from AFMSS And All of this
Stuff That We\'ve Been Talking About. When I Was First Asked to
Participate in This, I Had No Idea What I Was Getting into and I Had No
Idea the Amount of Effort That Is Put into a Broadcast like This. And I
See People All Around Us. There\'s People Behind the Cameras. I Know
There\'s at Least Two Rooms Full of People over Back There Somewhere. I
Hear this Voice from the Sky Every Once in a While Telling Us Stuff. And
I Would Just like to Thank All of Those People That Are out There
Supporting Us. And Especially I Would like to Thank Patty Ramsteader for
Keeping Us in Line and Without Her Efforts, this Never Would Have
Happened. So, I Just Want to Thank All of Those People That No One Else
Sees.

P. Brown: I Can Add a Hearty Amen to That, Gene, Because There\'s a Lot
of People Behind The Scenes That Make this Happen. It Might Look Easy on
Camera but It\'s the People Who Are Behind The Scenes That Are Making
this Happen. Well, Linda, I\'ve Saved the Best For Last. Do You Have
Final Comments You Would like to Share with Us?

L. Christensen: Yeah, I Think I Would Just Want to Point out To
Everybody as We\'ve Mentioned Several Times in the Broadcast That this
Is an Evolving Process. We Started out with I Think a Pretty Good
Fundamental Set of Requirements and We\'ve Built on That but as You Use
It, You\'ll Come up with Lots of Great Ideas For Things That Are Going
to Need to Be Changed in the Software and Just Let Us Know. Let Your
AFMSS User Group Representative Know. And So We Can Make it More
Flexible and More Easy to Use Over Time. This Is Just the Beginning.
We\'re Going to Be Going a Lot Farther from Here. So, as Offices Get a
Chance to Use It, Keep in Mind What\'s Working and What\'s Not Working
And Let Us Know. I Want to Thank You in Advance For Your Patience. We
Are Still Working out the Kinks in Here and I Hope That We Don\'t Cause
You Too Much Consternation in the near Future. So, Thank You.

P. Brown: I Would like to Thank My Panel. I Appreciate Your Help Here
Today, the Three of You. It Has Been Fun. Well, I Think That about Wraps
It up for Our First Electronic Commerce Telecast. Thank You for the
Faxes. We Didn\'t Fet Any Calls but We Would Have Appreciated That, Too.
We Appreciate Your Participation. That\'s What Makes These Satellite
Events Work. Again, I Would like to Remind All the Viewers to Make Sure
That We Get Your Evaluations as Well as the Rosters from Each Site. The
Viewer Package Contains Both Forms You May Use the On‑line Evaluation
Form At\... The Form Contains Information on Where to Send It. We Also
Would like to Remind All BLM Satellite Downlink Coordinators to Complete
the Standard Broadcast Viewer Roster And Fax it to the NTC Immediately.
Or, Again, You You Can Use the NTC Automated Viewer Reporting System on
the NTC Home Page. And Also, Don\'t Forget to Tune In to Director Tom
Fry\'s Broadcast at 12:30 Phoenix Time. Thanks for Watching and So Long
From Phoenix.

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