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Testifying before a House subcommittee on government reform, Walter Cruickshank, deputy director of the Minerals Management Service, defended the government's effort to expand oil and gas production and to collect nearly $10 billion in royalties each year. Mr. Cruickshank said the disparities could be explained by declining gas production, changes in the pattern of production and huge corrections, often totaling billions of dollars a year, in the reports that oil and gas companies file with the government. Presenting lawmakers with two dozen pages of charts and graphs, Mr. Cruickshank said that if nothing had changed since 2001, the government would have collected $1.3 billion more in 2005 than it had. Walter Cruickshank, the deputy director of the Minerals Management Service, said that What if he has concluded that there was no affirmative policy decision? which leases out tens of millions of acres of federal land and coastal waters to energy companies. Testifying before a House subcommittee on government reform, Mr. Cruickshank defended the government's effort to expand oil and gas production and to collect nearly $10 billion in royalties each year. Mr. Cruickshank said the disparities could be explained by declining gas production, changes in the pattern of production and huge corrections, often totaling billions of dollars a year, in the reports that oil and gas companies file with the government.