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The Washington Monument
in Washington, D.C. is 555 feet tall.
Last year, the Minerals Management Service collected $9.8 billion in royalties from
hundreds of large and small companies developing natural resources in Federal waters and
on Federal or Indian owned land.
If you stacked the 9.8 billion dollars that the MMS collected and compared
the stack to the Washington Monument,
the stack would equal 6,397 Washington Monuments.
That's right, a stack of $9.8 billion would be almost 675 miles high into
the sky.
That's a lot of money!
