BOEM announces key developments in offshore critical minerals planning
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — In case you’re wondering what’s new after the local public outcry about the US through the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) planning to sell leases that

![The American Samoa EEZ with the identified Area ID in the western sector. Colours show regions prospective for nodules and crusts. Source: BOEM, based on USGS map. [photo: BOEM] American Samoa EEZ](https://samoanews.com/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/field/image/boem-area-map.png?itok=o5QP3RsX)








