News from March 2010
By Interior Newswire | Mar 24, 2010
News Release: Today Superintendent Mike Murray announced the following public meeting schedule to provide opportunities for public comment on the draft environmental impact statement/Off-Road Vehicle Management Plan for Cape Hatteras National Seashore. The Plan/EIS will guide the management of ORV use at America’s...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 24, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy today announced two new funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) to support university and college efforts to build or expand their school’s nuclear science and engineering basic research or education capabilities. Under the Nuclear Energy University Programs, the Department will provide approximately $14.5 million to upgrade university-level research reactors and purchase general scientific equipment and instrumentation.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 24, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON-Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., Wednesday expressed concern that several major departments are not modernizing their telecommunications systems as quickly as they should be. In letters sent...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 24, 2010
News Release: Opening Statement of Senator Barbara Boxer
By Interior Newswire | Mar 24, 2010
News Release: The staff of Cape Cod National Seashore announce that they will continue to occasionally detour traffic on Province Lands Road to protect spadefoot toads. The detour, which may be implemented from April through October, on rainy nights, is intended to help protect the eastern spadefoot toad. The spadefoot...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 23, 2010
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), the top Republican on the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee, issued the following statement today after President Barack Obama signed into law the Democrats’ government takeover of health care...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 23, 2010
News Release: Today, Congressman Mike McIntyre, Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee's Subcommittee on Rural Development, Biotechnology, Specialty Crops, and Foreign Agriculture, held a hearing to review efforts to improve rural water infrastructure.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 23, 2010
News Release: Bill Text. Supplemental: Disaster Relief & Summer Jobs. While we begin to recover from the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression, the bill also provides funding, that is fully offset, to expand this summer's youth jobs program and continues assistance to America's small businesses under...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 23, 2010
News Release: The National Park Service announced today that a new book entitled Urban Carnivores: Ecology, Conflict, and Conservation is now published and available to the public. The book is the first to address the topic, and covers the ecology and behavior of well-known urban carnivore species around the world.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 23, 2010
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 MEXICO CITY—U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today joined with Mexican Interior Secretary Fernando Francisco Gómez-Mont to sign two arrangements to bolster aviation and border security between ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2010
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced that three detainees have been transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the custody and control of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2010
News Release: A Highland Falls, N.Y., woman was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for her role in a scheme to defraud and embezzle funds from the U.S. government by authorizing nearly $3 million in payments from the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y., to a bogus corporation she controlled. The guilty plea ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Dr. Todd J. Scarbrough and Melbourne Internal Medicine Associates P.A. (MIMA) have agreed to pay the United States $12 million to settle claims that the health care providers violated the False Claims Act by submitting false claims to Medicare and the military’s health care program - TRICARE, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2010
News Release: Rolondae Mitchell-Straughter and Ana Quinteros each pleaded guilty yesterday in connection with their roles in an "arthritis kit" Medicare fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney José Angel Moreno of the Southern District of Texas; Richard ...
By Fed Newswire | Mar 23, 2010
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced final rules to restrict the fees and expiration dates that may apply to gift cards. The rules protect consumers from certain unexpected costs and require that gift card terms and conditions be clearly stated.
By Commerce News Now | Mar 23, 2010
News Release: AS PREPARED FOR DELIVERY Tuesday, March 23, 2010 CONTACT OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS 202-482-4883 Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke Remarks on American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Tax Benefits Minneapolis, Minnesota Release Fact Sheet Opening Remarks Thank you all for coming out today. And thanks especially to Pastor Patrick and his wife Luisa Cabello Hansel for hosting us in their beautiful home.
By Commerce News Now | Mar 23, 2010
News Release: With Tax Day approaching, Locke highlighted an online tool to help families determine their eligibility for new tax benefits Remarks Fact Sheet U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke participated in a roundtable discussion in Minneapolis today to raise awareness of the new tax credits available to American ...
By Labor Gazette | Mar 23, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, five years after the terrible explosion at BP's Texas City refinery, Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis issued the following statement remembering the 15 workers who were killed and the many others who were injured in that tragic event: "As we've seen from my department's Occupational ...
By Labor Gazette | Mar 23, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a $1,137,425 grant to assist about 100 workers affected by layoffs at Joe's Sports, Outdoor, Auto/Truck and More in Wilsonville, Ore.
By State News Post | Mar 23, 2010
The US State Department published a one page notice on March 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
