This Ministerial Decree establishes that the Ministry exercises its authority in three major fields: 1) the organization of geological supervision and the management of public land and subsoil; 2) water management, conservation and protection; 3) research, reproduction, use and protection of natural resources; 4) montoring of the state of subsoil and water bodies. The Ministry is authorized to organize the state geological supervision of the territory and the continental shelf of the Russian Fed