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IOGCC also its own [[IOGCC Model Resolutions]] and distributes them to member states, Congress, and executive agencies. Each model resolution, as an IOGCC general practice, has an accompanying "Action Plan"<ref>[https://fs.ogm.utah.gov/bbooks/2010/12_Dec/Briefing/Briefing5_IOGCCMemo.ResolutionsApprovedAt2010AnnualMeeting.pdf 2010 Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission Model Resolutions], Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining OGM File Services, accessed April 2016.</ref> for what to do with the model in the public policy sphere. The model resolutions center around issue areas such as preventing and preempting federal regulations, anti-federal public lands advocacy, oil and gas wastes and waste injection, among other topics.
Like the [[American Legislative Exchange Council]] (ALEC), the organization's membership base – in some cases, historical documents show, its industry representative members<ref>[ https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2800545-Callon-Petroleum-84-IOCC-Model-Resolution.html May 10, 1984 Western Union Mailgram from Donald X. Finn of Callon Petroleum to Charles A. Moore, chairman of the IOCC Model Resolutions Committee], [[Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission]]</ref><ref>[ https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2800544-Independent-Petroleum-Association-of-New-Mexico.html May 9, 1984 Letter from Alvin Baca of Independent Petroleum Association of New Mexico to Vern Neff of [[Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission]]</ref> – propose and pass [[IOGCC Model Resolutions]] on the most pressing oil and gas-related regulatory issues of the day. These have run the gamut on policy areas ranging from public lands issues, safe and clean drinking water regulations, climate change issues, offshore drilling, and others.
The IOGCC attaches “action plans” to its model resolutions,<ref>[https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2798525-IOGCC-2010-Model-Resolutions-With-Action-Plans.html IOGCC 2010 Model Resolutions], Utah Division of Oil, Gas and Mining</ref> though it does not place those plans online for the rest of the world to see on its website. These documents outline strategic plans to use the resolutions as a lobbying tool to influence regulators and legislators at both the state- and federal-level. A document obtained via open records law shows that IOGCC says that these plans “must” accompany the introduction of all model resolutions.
