News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Susan Combs to be the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget at the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) with a 57-36 vote. Combs was nominated to be the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management and Budget at DOI on July 10, 2017. As of June 5, 2019, Ms. Combs had waited 695 days for the Senate to vote to confirm her to this position.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: LAGUNA PUEBLO, NM- The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Justice Services (BIA-OJS) Officer Nicholas “Nick” Jackson and his K-9 Kofi seized 4.3 Kilos (9.4 pounds) of heroin, which has an estimated street value of approximately $559,000.00, on the Pueblo of Laguna in New Mexico last week.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and National Park Service (NPS) Director Jon Jarvis today issued the following statement commending NPS U.S. Park Police officers and NPS personnel who have been working to ensure that demonstrations in McPherson Square and Freedom Plaza are conducted safely and in compliance with laws and regulations:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Tom Strickland and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Sam Hamilton today announced that the brown pelican, a species once decimated by the pesticide DDT, has recovered and is being removed from the list of threatened and endangered species under the Endangered Species Act.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: SAN ANTONIO, TX - Joining a celebration of the progress in restoring the San Antonio River, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that Interior will actively pursue a nomination for the distinguished World Heritage Site status for the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael Connor today announced that the Department has signed three additional agreements to facilitate the purchase of individual interests in fractionated trust lands and consolidate ownership for the tribes with jurisdiction. Agreements with the Coeur ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, According to a Congressionally-mandated report issued today, the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of the Interior (DOI) are projected to spend over $470 million more than is available to fight wildfires this season. According to the report, the Forest Service and Interior may need to spend $1.8 billion fighting fires this year, while the agencies have only $1.4 billion available for firefighting.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced Colorado’s Canyons of the Ancients National Monument is no longer under review and that he will recommend that no modifications be made to the monument. The monuments were under review in accordance with President Donald J. Trump’s April 26, 2017, executive order. The recommendation comes after review of public comments and conversations with stakeholders.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: SANTA FE, N.M.-Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Senator Jeff Bingaman today joined leaders from four Pueblos-the Tesuque, Nambe, Pojoaque and San Ildefonso-at the Santa Fe Indian School to celebrate the implementation of the historic New Mexico vs. Aamodt water rights settlement.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON – On Monday, April 4, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis will join other federal and local officials to participate in a public meeting with community members to hear their vision for the management of the Sewall-Belmont House & Museum in Washington, D.C., which is currently proposed to become a unit of the National Park System.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Director of the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement Brian Salerno today announced final well control regulations to reduce the risk of an offshore oil or gas blowout that could result in the loss of life, serious injuries or substantial ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: On Saturday, March 13, 2010 Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will join Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-Arizona) to assess the progress of homeland security projects at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument on the U.S. border with Mexico. They will be joined by Interior Assistant Secretary for Fish, Wildlife ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Obama's fiscal year 2014 budget request of $11.9 billion for the Department of the Interior maintains critical funding for the Department's core missions, while making strategic investments to sustain economic recovery and generate jobs, including vital funding ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: MMS Office in Lakewood, CO. Good morning, and thank you for joining me. . At the outset, I will tell you this: I believe that service to the public is a special and trusted calling for each of us. . To serve the American people is honorable and dignified. . I know this from my father, who served as a staff ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ROCKPORT, Ma. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the selection of the Town of Rockport in partnership with the Thatcher Island Association to acquire the historic Straitsmouth Island Lighthouse, based on a recommendation by the National Park Service.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – On Monday, May 9, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis will join U.S. Representative Jerrold Nadler (NY – 10th) and other federal, state and local officials to participate in a public meeting with community members to hear their ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will speak at a wreath laying ceremony commemorating the 65th Anniversary of the flag raising on Iwo Jima during World War II. The event on Feb. 23, 2010 is being sponsored by the Marine Corps War Memorial Foundation.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON-The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) expects airport security checkpoints nationwide will be busy during the upcoming Thanksgiving travel period, which runs from Friday, Nov. 19, through Sunday, Nov. 28, and the agency is prepared to handle the increase in passenger volume for the holiday. TSA expects to screen about 20 million passengers during the Thanksgiving holiday.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today received an implementation plan for restructuring the department's offshore energy management responsibilities, detailing a transition that could begin as early as October 1 and be completed in 2011. Salazar is reviewing the plan and has forwarded it to congressional leaders for their review and comment.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs (OIA) released an analysis on the economic impact of grants and payments provided to the territories and freely associated states. Grants and payments from OIA totaling $710 million are estimated to have created an economic ...
