News published on Federal Newswire in October 2006

News from October 2006


The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Oct. 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Oct. 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: Inner workings of a food-poisoning organism called Campylobacter lari have been uncovered in greater detail than ever before by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in California. Their forays into the genetic makeup, or genome, of this little-known pathogen reveal new details about the structure, or sequence, of its genes.


Grassley, Baucus Release, Will Review More JCT Options to Close the Tax Gap

News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Chuck Grassley, Chairman of the Committee on Finance, and Sen. Max Baucus, Ranking Member, today released a new set of discussion options for closing the tax gap from the non-partisan congressional Joint Committee on Taxation and said they will review the options carefully. The tax...


News Release: Officials at Lake Mead National Recreation Area are partnering with the Overton Power District to develop options to upgrade the power supply servicing the Echo Bay developed area. The demand for electrical power at Echo Bay has continuously increased, yet, the more than 35-year- old primary power service...


Applications for New Research Fellowship Program in Denali National Park and Preserve Now Available

News Release: The National Park Service and the Denali Foundation are seeking applications from individuals wishing to be considered for the 2007 Discover Denali Research Fellowship Program offered through the Murie Science and Learning Center, located in Denali National Park and Preserve. Successful applicants will...


News Release: Biologists at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore were recently informed by lab specialists at the Michigan Department of Natural Resource Wildlife Disease Laboratory that Type E Botulism remains the culprit in the deaths of an assortment of bird species along the Lake Michigan shoreline. According...


Celebrating Art in Acadia National Park

News Release: On Saturday, Oct. 28, artist-in-residence Terry Havey Hilt will offer a free watercolor painting class from 10 a.m. to noon at the Schoodic Education and Research Center on Schoodic Peninsula.


News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Officials at Glacier National Park announce that the alpine section of the Going-to-the-Sun Road (Sun Road), from the Loop to Siyeh Bend, will be closed to vehicular traffic for the season starting at 8 a.m. on Nov. 1, 2006. This alpine section will be open to hiking and bicycling as weather and road conditions permit.


No Hunting Restrictions in Glacier National Park

News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - With the opening of the general hunting season on Sunday, Oct. 22, officials at Glacier National Park remind hunters that NO hunting of any kind is permitted within the park. It is the hunters’ responsibility to ensure that they are NOT hunting within park boundaries.


News Release: On Oct. 31, the Hulls Cove Visitor Center and the Sand Beach Entrance Station will close for the season. Beginning on Nov. 1, information will be available daily at the Winter Visitor Center at park headquarters on Route 233, except on Thanksgiving Day, December 24 and 25, and January 1. Also closed now are the Islesford Historical Museum, the Nature Center at Sieur de Monts Spring, and Seawall Campground.


News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2006 WWW.USDOJ.GOV ODAG (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON – United States Attorneys have filed criminal charges against 78 individuals in 69 separate prosecutions in 36 judicial districts on a variety of federal bankruptcy fraud and related counts, ...


News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2006 WWW.USDOJ.GOV AT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 Two Korean Executives and One U.S. Executive Charged in Global Price-Fixing & Bid-Rigging Scheme WASHINGTON — A federal grand jury in San Francisco today returned an indictment against two executives ...


News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2006 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 “We are extremely pleased with today's Court ruling, which affirms that Osceola County must abandon its illegal election system,” said Wan J. Kim, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s ...


News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2006 WWW.USDOJ.GOV CRT (202) 514-2007 TDD (202) 514-1888 WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today announced that Sung Bum Chang, a Korean American man who owned and operated the nightclub, “Club Wa,” in Dallas was sentenced to 10 years in prison for forcing ...


News Release: WASHINGTON—U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez issued the following statement on Iceland’s announcement today that they were resuming commercial whaling and will issue permits to hunt nine endangered fin whales and 30 minke whales for the year ending Aug. 31, 2007. There is currently a global commercial whaling ban.


The US Interior Department published a three page proposed rule on Oct. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a one page proposed rule on Oct. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a six page notice on Oct. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US State Department published a one page notice on Oct. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.