News from September 2010
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2010
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) announced that it will develop an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) to evaluate potential issuance of a Special Use Permit for commercial oyster operations within Drakes Estero. This process follows recent legislation that allows the Secretary of Interior to issue a...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 22, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., Wednesday heard from top government leaders about the increasing and evolving threat of violent Islamist extremism.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2010
News Release: Several organizations are banding together to clean up our coastlines along the Channel Islands and at three area beaches in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 22, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn., and Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me., Wednesday heard from top government leaders about the increasing and evolving threat of violent Islamist extremism.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 22, 2010
News Release: With the help of genetic materials from a cow's rumen, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists are developing new ways to break down plant fibers for conversion into biofuel.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2010
News Release: Copper Center, AK - The Wrangell-St. Elias National Park Subsistence Resource Commission will meet at Fast Eddy's Restaurant in Tok, Alaska (Mile 1313 Alaska Highway) on Wednesday, October 6, and Thursday, October 7, to consider a range of issues related to subsistence hunting and fishing in the park.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2010
News Release: Zion National Park will offer a Fee Free Day on Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010, in observance of National Public Lands Day. On that day, the National Park Service will join other public land management agencies to waive entrance fees including commercial tour and transportation entrance fees. The fee waiver does not include camping or backcountry permit fees.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Sen. Chuck Grassley today released a response from the special inspector general of the Troubled Assets Relief Program to his inquiry on how much the General Motors' initial public offering would need to raise to compensate taxpayers.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 22, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today Senator Susan Collins, Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued a statement on the President’s nomination of Gene Dodaro to be the Comptroller General of the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The Committee has jurisdiction over the Comptroller General nomination and will vet the nomination before it is considered by the full Senate.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Sander M. Levin (D-MI) issued the following statement today in conjunction with an announcement that the Committee will meet at 9:30 AM on Friday, Sept. 24, 2010 to consider a Chairman’s Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.R. 2378, legislation to address China’s fundamental undervaluation of its currency...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2010
News Release: San Juan National Historic Site friend's group, Los Amigos de los Fuertes del Viejo San Juan, obtained a grant last year from the Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance (RTCA) program for working collaboratively with Los Amigos, San Juan National Historic Site, local government agencies and local communities for expanding and connecting El Paseo del Morro to additional sections outside the park's jurisdiction.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2010
News Release: Olympic National Park will join National Park Service sites throughout the country by waiving entrance fees on Sept. 25, 2010 in conjunction with National Public Lands Day (NPLD). The park will also offer a series of ranger-led programs and guided walks at many of Olympic's popular destinations.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2010
News Release: Helicopter operations at Crater Lake National Park safely removed automobile parts and associated debris within the caldera of Crater Lake that resulted from the 9/11/2010 auto mishap near North Junction. The helicopter, from Swanson Group Aviation in Grants Pass, Oregon, hauled out two rigged loads...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2010
News Release: October 6-7, 2010. Fast Eddy's Restaurant. Tok, Alaska. The Superintendent of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve and the Chairman of the Subsistence Resource Commission (SRC) announce a forthcoming meeting of the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park SRC. The following agenda items will be discussed:...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2010
News Release: An outdoor photography workshop will be held on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010, at Knife River Indian Villages NHS from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. MDT. Participants should meet at the visitor center to participate in this free event.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2010
News Release: Call for Volunteers to Assist with Beach Clean-up and Invasive Plant Removal.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2010
News Release: Superintendent Dusty Shultz is pleased to introduce September's Artist-in-Residence (AIR) at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Kaye Krapohl, an oil painter from Traverse City, Michigan, is immersing herself in the natural wonders of the dunes, forests, beaches, and varied cultural landscapes this...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2010
News Release: The Bureau of Reclamation today released the Final Supplemental Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the San Joaquin River Restoration Program's Water Year 2011 Interim Flows Project. The document was prepared in accordance with the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 21, 2010
News Release: While entrance fees and commercial tour fees will be waived for NPLD, recreation "user fees" such as backcountry permit fees, camping fees and fees for other activities offered in the park will not be waived.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2010
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today issued a report marking the 10th anniversary of the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA), showing that the law has had a positive impact on protecting the religious freedom of a wide range of faith groups, and had a particularly significant impact protecting the religious freedom of minorities.
