Sentence examples for acres of the outer from inspiring English sources
The move puts off limits millions of acres of the Outer Continental Shelf that hold potentially billions of barrels of oil and trillions of cubic feet of natural gas.
Mr. Salazar has big dreams for his department, which manages 500 million acres of federal land — one-fifth of the country's land mass — and 1.7 billion acres of the outer continental shelf, and for that reason is well-positioned to play a major role in energy policy.
Zinke announced in January that he planned to open nearly 1.7 billion acres of the Outer Continental Shelf to new offshore oil and gas drilling operations.
At the end of 2006, the Republican Congress and the president enacted "The Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act," which opened for drilling 8 million acres of the Outer Continental shelf estimated to contain more than 40 billion barrels of oil.
For example, the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, acting for the American people, allocates exclusive rights to produce oil from 8,000 oil and gas leases covering 1.7 billion acres of the Outer Continental Shelf.
That's important because Interior has jurisdiction over one-fifth of our nation's landmass, 1.7 billion acres on the Outer Continental Shelf, drinking water supplies for 31 million Americans and irrigation water for 140,000 farmers.
Interior manages one-fifth of the nation's land mass and nearly 1.7 billion acres on the Outer Continental Shelf.
Eighteen thousand acres of the harbor and outer bay are currently closed to commercial and recreational fishing (Nelson et al. 1996).
Still standing are remnants of the outer walls, temples, imperial palace, and acres of chunks and columns -- remarkably intact since they are not stone, but composed of sun-baked earth.
Only the outer layer of the outer integument generally persists as a membranous seed coat.
