You’re Invited: BOEM’s Marine Minerals Program 2024 Gulf of Mexico Offshore Sand Management Working Group Meeting

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's Marine Minerals Program (MMP) will be hosting the 2024 Gulf of Mexico Offshore Sand Management Working Group (SMWG) meeting on Thursday, December 5, 2023, from 8:15 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. CT.

This year's meeting will discuss sediment management activity across the Gulf of Mexico, including sand inventory efforts, environmental research, and cooperative and interagency agreements. Multi-use collaboration on offshore renewable and conventional energy development in the region will be covered. The meeting will also showcase a panel discussion on a planning effort to chart MMP activities in the Gulf of Mexico into the future.

The SMWG Meeting will be a hybrid event to accommodate the public through virtual participation. For more information, see the BOEM website: https://www.boem.gov/marine-minerals/sand-management-working-group-meeting.

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The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) manages development of U.S. Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) energy, mineral, and geological resources in an environmentally and economically responsible way.