WASHINGTON — During testimony before the U.S Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources today, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland confirmed that, despite delays in implementation from the previous Administration, the Interior Department will release the Proposed Program – the next step in the five-year offshore energy planning process – by June 30, 2022, which is the expiration of the current program. A Proposed Program is not a decision to issue specific leases or to authorize any drilling or development.
DOI
Here is the timeline for the 5 Year Leasing Program (light blue).
A sale this year under the new program is thus highly unlikely. The process will no doubt be delayed even further by litigation. As we have said previously, the only hopes for a sale this year are a successful appeal of Judge Contreras’s Sale 257 ruling or successful congressional action (unlikely but possible under the circumstances).
Bud's Offshore Energy (BOE) 
“Despite delays from previous administration..???” Please get this going and while you are at it, provide incentives to drill by lowering royalties for deep water leases, expediting the permit process and ensuring oil companies some stability with consistent regulations!