The agency now oversees roughly 100,000 wells, the most ever. It has pointed to its request for additional funding for inspections via fees charged to oil and gas companies as a way to fix oversight problems and other shortcomings identified by GAO and other investigations.
DMZ (demilitarized zone) In computer networks, a DMZ (demilitarized zone) is a physical or logical sub-network that separates an internal local area network (LAN) from other untrusted networks, usually the Internet.
1. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) to remove any military presence or function in (an area): demilitarized zone. 2. (Military) to free of military character, purpose, etc: 11 regiments were demilitarized.