News published on Federal Newswire in September 2014

News from September 2014


The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Sept. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Sept. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a four page notice on Sept. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Sept. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Sept. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Agriculture Department published a nine page rule on Sept. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


U.S. Transportation Secretary Foxx Announces $7 Million in Grants to Help Small Communities Improve Air Service

News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced that the Department of Transportation would provide $7 million from the Small Community Air Service Development Program to help 16 communities in 14 states develop their own solutions to local air service needs. The Department received 52 applications from 27 states.


U.S. Department of Transportation Celebrates Groundbreaking of Los Angeles Regional Connector, Improving Transit Efficiency

News Release: LA also awarded $1.7 million Ladders of Opportunity grant to enhance bus facilities


News Release: MONTGOMERY - In a meeting of the Alabama Prison Reform Taskforce, U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance affirmed the Department of Justice’s support for the taskforce to conduct the process of Justice Reinvestment. Since 2010, Vance has collaborated with state criminal justice agencies through the North Alabama Reentry Council in an effort to implement best practices to improve public safety by reducing criminal recidivism.


News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Northern District of Florida. Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014. Follow @NDFLNews. TALLAHASSEE - William Cassidy, 50, of Florence, Indiana, pled guilty today to wire fraud in connection with a scheme to obtain money by operating a private prisoner transportation...


News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Federal fire officials from the Upper Colorado River Interagency Fire Management Unit are planning to conduct a prescribed fire on the Palisade Watershed within the next few weeks, once conditions are favorable.


News Release: The U.S. Department of Justice announced funding awards to seven cities and agencies in the district, aimed at creating, and in some cases protecting, 41 law enforcement positions, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.


News Release: Cities And Counties Will Receive Additional Support From Federal Program Designed To Disrupt Drug Trafficking Through Coordinated Approaches To Enforcement.


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement today after the Department of Energy announced that it would restore the Bonneville Power Administration’s (BPA) Human Resources authorities.


News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada - National Park Service Park Ranger Marc Burt has been named the 2014 Nevada Department of Wildlife Boating State Law Enforcement Officer of the Year, marking the first time a National Service Park Ranger has received this award in Nevada.


News Release: In support of President Obama’s all-of-the-above energy strategy, the Energy Department today announced up to $25 million in funding to reduce the cost of algal biofuels to less than $5 per gasoline gallon equivalent (gge) by 2019. This funding supports the development of a bioeconomy that can help create green jobs, spur innovation, improve the environment, and achieve national energy security.


Officer Of Middlesex, N.J. Union Admits Accepting Bribes To Circumvent Collective Bargaining Agreement

News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A union officer for Local 594 of the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) today admitting accepting $8,000 in bribes to allow a demolition contractor to use non-union workers on a New Jersey building project in violation of their collective bargaining agreement (CBA), U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.


News Release: The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, Kenyen R. Brown, announces that CHRIS CHARLES CHAMBERS and SCOTT THOMAS TOTO have been sentenced passing counterfeit United States currency in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 471. Judge William Steele sentenced Chambers...


News Release: MONROE, La. -A Choudrant man pleaded guilty last week to distributing methamphetamine from his home, U.S.Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced.


News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Thomas Caul, Special Agent in Charge, Social Security Administration (SSA), Office of Inspector General (OIG), Donnell Young, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and...