North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum will serve as Interior secretary and chairman of the newly formed National Energy Council, President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday. The new council will consist of all departments and agencies involved in the permitting,

President-elect Donald Trump has tapped North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to lead the U.S. Department of Interior, which oversees the management of 500 million acres of public lands across the country, controls 700 million acres of subsurface lands and 1.7 billion acres of the outer continental shelf.

North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum was officially nominated for secretary of the Interior and “chairman of the newly formed, and very important, National Energy Council” by President-elect Donald Trump.