News published on Federal Newswire in June 2012

News from June 2012



News Release: Ariz. - The National Park Service invites the public to celebrate Western Arts Day 2012, Saturday, July 14, on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. Western Arts Day celebrates the unique culture that defines Grand Canyon, Northern Arizona, and Southern Utah.


News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today announced that effective immediately, certain young people who were brought to the United States as young children, do not present a risk to national security or public safety, and meet several key criteria will be considered for relief...


USDA Secretary Vilsack Announces Measures to Improve the Quality of Life and Foster Economic Opportunity for Tribal Communities

News Release: WASHINGTON, June 13, 2012 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the implementation of measures that will make it easier for individuals living in Substantially Underserved Trust Areas (SUTA) to obtain USDA funding to improve basic services, including water and sewer systems, broadband and electric infrastructure.


USDA Forest Service Announces Award of Large Air Tanker Agreements; Federal Partners to Have New Resources to Suppress Wildfires

News Release: Contracts part of effort to modernize airtanker fleet WASHINGTON, June 13, 2012 -- U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell announced today that the U.S. Forest Service has awarded contracts to four companies to provide a total of seven next generation airtankers for wildfire suppression.


USDA Announces Additional 9,000 Acres for Non-Food Energy Crop Production

News Release: BCAP Continues the Obama Administration Investment in Local Jobs and Energy Independence WASHINGTON, June 13, 2012—Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today $9.6 million for the creation of two new Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP) project areas in New York and North Carolina, and the expansion ...


News Release: The Justice Department announced today that Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs Ronald Weich will be leaving the department to join the University of Baltimore School of Law as its new dean. Assistant Attorney General Weich was appointed by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate in April, 2009.


News Release: WASHINGTON – The former co-owner of a Houston-area home health care company was sentenced today in Houston to 108 months in prison for his participation in a $5.2 million Medicare fraud scheme, announced the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Clifford ...


News Release: WASHINGTON – Edward “Eddy” Lato, 65, of Providence, R.I., an admitted capo regime in the New England La Cosa Nostra (NELCN), was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Providence today to 108 months in federal prison for participating in racketeering extortion conspiracies of several Rhode Island adult entertainment businesses and of a car salesman and his wife.


News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Justice has transferred to the state of Tennessee approximately 1,000 acres of undeveloped land in Cannon County, Tenn., as a result of a federal criminal conviction of two individuals for distribution of marijuana. The transfer was announced by Assistant Attorney ...


Federal Reserve Board announces consent order of prohibition against Jerry Williams

News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced the issuance of a Consent Order of Prohibition against Jerry Williams, the former President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the board of directors, and a former institution-affiliated party of Orion Bancorp, Naples, Florida, a former registered bank holding company, and Orion Bank, Naples, Florida, a former state-member bank that failed in November 2009.


Assistant secretary of labor kicks off seminar on achieving a culture of prevention in the mining industry

News Release: Enhanced enforcement strategies are working, says MSHAs Joseph Main ARLINGTON, Va. – Despite a number of challenges confronting the mining industry over the past two and a half years, including the worst coal mine disaster in four decades, the actions being taken by the U.S. Labor Department's Mine Safety ...


The US Agriculture Department published a six page rule on June 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on June 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Agriculture Department published a nine page rule on June 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on June 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on June 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on June 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a six page notice on June 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a two page notice on June 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.