Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar wants to revamp the nation’s oil-and-gas royalty system to encourage more efficient drilling for fossil fuels on federal lands. The idea makes sense, but the problem lies in its execution—or rather, who will be executing it. The Minerals Management Service is responsible for overseeing the collection of royalties from oil companies that extract petroleum and natural gas from federal tracts—a job that the agency bungled in the past, thanks to a mistake during the Clinton administration and a Bush administration that was overly friendly to the oil and gas industry, costing the federal government large sums of money.