News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of the Interior has offered to join the State of Utah, county officials and other stakeholders in a pilot negotiation project to resolve claims on rural roads under an 1866 law granting rights-of-way for the construction of highways over federal lands that are not reserved ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: BILLINGS, MT –Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that the Bureau of Reclamation has awarded $40 million to the Fort Peck/Dry Prairie Rural Water System in northeastern Montana under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt established the Great American Outdoors Act Coordination and Implementation Task Force to implement the Department of the Interior’s portion of the Great American Outdoors Act, which was signed into law by President Donald J. Trump ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today praised White House appointment of Kim Steven Elton as the Director of Alaska Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior. Elton has served as a member of the Alaska State Senate representing his hometown of Juneau since 1998, a position he will resign to take the Interior job.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Michael L. Connor. “With growing water challenges facing communities across the country, Mike Connor's deep background in water, Indian rights and energy issues will help us find common sense solutions,” said Secretary Salazar. “Mike has a proven track record of building consensus with a wide range of ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Crow Tribe Apsáalooke Nation, the United States of America and the State of Montana executed the Crow Tribe-Montana Water Rights Compact in an historic signing ceremony today at the U.S. Department of the Interior.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON DC – In remarks today at a benefit for the National Mall, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar outlined a vision for a public-private campaign to restore the nation's most visited national park, and thanked the National Park Service's many private, philanthropic, and non-profit partners for their support. The remarks were made at the Trust for the National Mall's Annual Benefit Luncheon.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – As part of the Obama Administration’s effort to prepare communities for the impacts of climate change, U. S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced that the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) has awarded $11.8 million in Tribal Climate Resilience Program funding awards. The funding will help federally recognized tribes and tribally chartered organizations with climate change adaptation and ocean and coastal management planning projects.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: THE WHITE HOUSE. Office of the Press Secretary. For Immediate Release Sept. 24, 2010. NATIONAL PUBLIC LANDS DAY, 2010. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. From majestic mountain ranges to beloved neighborhood. parks, Americans enjoy the natural places our ancestors. ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today praised President Obama's intent to nominate Tommy P. Beaudreau as Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget (PMB). If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Beaudreau would oversee a broad portfolio of policy and administrative functions that support the Department and its workforce, including budget, law enforcement and security management, human resources and procurement.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: SALT LAKE CITY – On Monday, April 26, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will meet with Governor Gary R. Herbert's Balanced Resource Council to discuss America's great outdoors, followed by a visit to the southwestern Utah community of Milford that is on the cutting edge of the renewable energy revolution. ...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on Nov. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - As part of President Obama's all-of-the-above energy strategy, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) Director Tommy P. Beaudreau today announced that Interior is taking steps to assess the conventional and renewable energy resource potential ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar recently designated 22 trails in 13 states as newly recognized National Recreation Trails, adding more than 525 miles of trails to the National Trails System.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS -Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood today joined Senator Claire McCaskill, St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay and Missouri Department of Transportation Director Kevin Keith to highlight a $20 million federal grant awarded last week to the ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, on his first day on duty, Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke (pronounced ZINK-ee) issued two secretarial orders which expand access to public lands and increase hunting, fishing, and recreation opportunities nationwide. These orders deliver on promises made by both President ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: ALBUQUERQUE, NM – On Friday, August 8, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join New Mexico Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, Representative Michelle Lujan Grisham, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Regional Director Dr. Benjamin Tuggle and state and local officials to make an announcement regarding the Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today released the following statement on the passing of Senator Daniel Inouye:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – TODAY, Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Interior Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Kevin Washburn will join Jodi Gillette, President Obama's Special Assistant for Native American Affairs, in a 3:30 p.m. EST teleconference to preview the Administration's proposed fiscal year 2016 budget initiatives for Native Youth and Indian Education.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today commended President Obama for signing into law S.23, legislation designating 32,557 acres of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan as wilderness, the first congressional designation under the Wilderness Act since 2009.