News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior today announced that it finalized electric bike (or e-bike) regulations that pave the way for land managers to allow more people, especially older Americans and those with physical limitations, to experience bicycling on public lands managed by the National Park Service, the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Reclamation.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is asking Congress to pass legislation authorizing the U.S. Mint to issue coins commemorating the centennial anniversary of the National Park Service in 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today lauded the Senate's approval of Larry EchoHawk, a law professor and former Idaho Attorney General and state legislator, as Interior's Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs. The President had nominated EchoHawk on April 20, 2009.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell issued the following statement today on the wildfire in Arizona:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today applauded the introduction of bipartisan, bicameral legislation to establish the Smithsonian American Latino Museum, as recommended by the National Museum of the American Latino (NMAL) Commission. The legislation also designates the museum's location within the Smithsonian's Art and Industries building on the National Mall.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that the National Park Service is awarding 24 grants totaling $2.9 million to preserve and interpret sites where Japanese Americans were confined during World War II.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – A USGS study released today suggests that snowpack declines in the Rocky Mountains over the last 30 years are unusual compared to the past few centuries. Prior studies by the USGS and other institutions attribute the decline to unusual springtime warming, more precipitation falling now as rain rather than snow and earlier snowmelt.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Michael L. Connor today announced that Reclamation has selected five Title XVI water reuse projects in California and New Mexico to receive $15.6 million in funding through the Department of the Interior's WaterSMART program.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: PAGE, AZ–Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today triggered the first “high-flow experimental release” at Glen Canyon Dam, under a new experimental long-term protocol to better distribute sediment to conserve downstream resources, while meeting water and power needs and allowing continued scientific experimentation, data collection, and monitoring on the Colorado River.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Secretary Ken Salazar. Washington, DC. Hello Department of the Interior!. Thank you all for coming. And thanks to those of you who are joining us by satellite, the web, or phone this afternoon. Welcome. . Thank you for the introduction, Julie. Julie is a real superstar at the Department and has done a ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. –As part of the Obama Administration's commitment to making government information more readily available and useful , and in an effort to help more people discover public lands and waterways near their own communities, the U.S. Department of the Interior, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, announced today they will host a developer summit to expand the use of federal information about America's lands and waters.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: SAN DIEGO, California – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today joined with California Secretary for Natural Resources John Laird and CAL FIRE Director Ken Pimlott as part of the state's Wildfire Awareness Week, focusing on urban community preparedness and plans to mitigate the risks facing the drought-plagued state at the outset of an expected severe wildfire season.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of the Interior is taking immediate actions to strengthen oversight of state surface coal mining programs and to promulgate Federal regulations to better protect streams affected by surface coal mining operations, Interior officials announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – As part of President Obama's Climate Action Plan to create jobs, cut carbon pollution and develop clean domestic energy, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell on Tuesday will visit the Palm Springs area to celebrate an important renewable energy and landscape-level conservation milestone.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the Trump Administration announced that for the first time in twenty years, the National Park Service (NPS) is proposing long overdue improvements to the regulations that govern contracts to enhance visitor services at NPS units. If approved, the revisions would reduce administrative burdens for concessioners to promote competition, provide more flexibility to add new services and encourage investment in concession facilities.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the transfer of two historic lighthouses in Washington and Michigan to local partners under the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act (NHLPA). The Point No Point Light Station on Puget Sound will be transferred to the municipal ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: In September 1964, Congress passed and President Johnson signed the Wilderness Protection Act to set aside those places that should remain untouched forever, places “where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man." Today we have 756 wilderness areas that cover nearly 110 million acres, ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: LOS CABOS, MEXICO – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today joined Mexican President Felipe Calderon, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mexican Minister of Foreign Relations Patricia Espinosa, and Mexican Minister of Energy Jordy Herrera in Los Cabos, Mexico at the signing of an agreement ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – As part of President Obama's all-of-the-above energy strategy to continue to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy P. Beaudreau today announced that Central Gulf of Mexico ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced that the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has awarded a $19.6 million construction contract to build the Tohlakai Pumping Plant, the first pumping plant for the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project, about eight miles north of Gallup, N.M. Moltz Constructors, Inc., a small business enterprise located in Cody, Wyoming is the recipient.
