News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today swore in Teresa Chambers as the Chief of the U.S. Park Police. Secretary Salazar administered the oath of office to Chambers at a Swearing-In Ceremony at the Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior building.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland released the following statement today:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that the Bureau of Reclamation has awarded $2.86 million to AKK-De Los Santos Construction Company of Chandler, Ariz. under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell issued the following statement following President Obama's signature of two bills that are expected to create rural jobs and encourage the development of small hydropower projects, including within existing Bureau of Reclamation conduits, waterways and canals. The Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act and the Hydropower and Rural Jobs Act were signed into law today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced today that the Obama Administration is proposing legislation to honor the National Park Service’s 100th anniversary, which will be celebrated in 2016. The National Park Service Centennial Act would further the agency’s legacy of protecting, ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. –The Department of the Interior and its agencies around the country, in cooperation with state and local partners, are acting to help citizens threatened by the record-setting Midwest floods in ways ranging from providing the streamgage and satellite data used in weather predictions to conducting search-and- rescue operations in boats usually used in national parks and wildlife refuges.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the transfer of three Michigan lighthouses -- South Haven South Pierhead, Middle Island and Waugoshance -- to local historical organizations under the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act (NHLPA).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today applauded President Obama's intent to nominate Jonodev Osceola Chaudhuri to be the chair of the National Indian Gaming Commission, the federal agency tasked with collaborating with tribes and states to regulate Indian gaming.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: MILTON, Del. – The U.S. Department of the Interior today announced that due to concerted conservation efforts by states, landowners and others ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell issued the following statement regarding the passage of Trade Promotion Authority:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. – The Department of the Interior today released the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) evaluating the potential removal of four privately owned hydroelectric facilities on the Klamath River. The Final EIS identifies the preferred alternative as full removal of all four facilities; ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: REDDING, CA - On Sunday, Aug. 12, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke and United States Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Brenda Burman toured neighborhoods and DOI assets destroyed by the Carr fire. The two toured the Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, which is jointly owned by the National ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Klamath Falls, OR - Governor Kitzhaber, Senators Wyden and Merkley, and Reclamation Commissioner Mike Connor joined today with members of the Klamath Basin Task Force and Upper Basin Water Group to announce the successful completion of work by the Task Force and an agreement in principle on Upper Basin water and economic issues.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: HARTFORD, CT. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today signed a Secretarial Order establishing a National Blueways System and announced that the 410-mile-long Connecticut River and its 7.2 million-acre watershed will be the first National Blueway- covering areas of Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne and Mexican Ambassador to the United States Arturo Sarukhan today signed a declaration praising joint efforts to identify additional cooperative measures to improve management of the Colorado River to meet the environmental, agricultural and urban needs of both countries during a period of historic drought.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: DENVER, Colo. – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper today marked the one year anniversary of the historic decision not to list the greater sage-grouse under the Endangered Species Act by celebrating the ongoing unprecedented collaborative conservation effort to conserve the sagebrush ecosystem with stakeholders at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON-At the direction of the President, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will visit Louisiana on Monday to inspect the ongoing response to the BP oil spill, accompanied by a bipartisan Senate delegation.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON – On Thursday, January 5, U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael L. Connor will meet with leaders of the Navajo Nation in Arizona to announce a milestone and highlight the work accomplished by the Obama Administration to strengthen tribal sovereignty, reduce fractionation and provide ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will travel to four cities this week – in North Carolina, Indiana, New Mexico and Arizona – joining local elected officials and community partners to celebrate the positive economic impacts and successes of the Land and Water Conservation Fund as it approaches its 50th anniversary on September 3rd.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today released the first of two reports developed by the Rangeland Fire Task Force. This initial report includes actions to be implemented by Interior's bureaus to immediately address the threat of rangeland fire to Western sagebrush-steppe landscapes and improve fire management efforts before the start of the 2015 wildfire season.
