News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that the Bureau of Reclamation's 2010 Central Valley Project (CVP) Water Supply allocations have increased for agricultural water service contractors in California's San Joaquin Valley.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the Department of the Interior's projects under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for New Jersey. Across its Bureaus, the Department will invest $28.6 million in New Jersey as part of the recovery plan signed by ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WILMINGTON, N.C. – Today at the U.S.S. North Carolina, President Donald J. Trump and U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt designated the city of Wilmington, North Carolina, as the first American World War II Heritage City. The designation recognizes the countless contributions of the women and men who stepped into the workforce to support America’s successful campaign during World War II.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Geological Survey released a report that detailed the extent to which the United States is fully, majorly, or partially dependent upon foreign competitors and even adversaries for our supply of "critical minerals." The report identified ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will announce today that, as a result of an initiative begun in the summer of this year, the United States has reached settlement with 17 additional tribal governments who alleged that the Department of the Interior ...
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Nov. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, May 15, Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael Connor will hold a news media teleconference to discuss the schedule for the continued implementation of the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations (Buy-Back Program) through the end of calendar year 2015. Connor will be joined by Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Kevin K. Washburn.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Just days before the release of a 50-state report outlining some of the country's most promising ways to reconnect Americans to the natural world, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today highlighted two projects in the state of Colorado that will be included in the final report - representing ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today the distribution of more than $749 million in excise tax revenues generated by sportsmen and women to state and territorial fish and wildlife agencies through the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration and Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Programs.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior Michael L. Connor today announced that the Department has signed agreements with three additional Tribes – the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes in Oklahoma, the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohican Indians in Wisconsin, and the Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation in California – to guide implementation of the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations (Buy-Back Program).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: On March 23, 2010, at 10 a.m., Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Mike Connor will host a groundbreaking event at the Red Bluff Diversion Dam on Diamond Avenue as part of the largest Department of the Interior economic stimulus ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Today, the United States and Australia formalized their partnership on developing both nations’ critical mineral assets between Geoscience Australia CEO James Johnson and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Director Jim Reilly. The two partners outlined specific steps to strengthen an existing Memorandum of Understanding by collaborating on research and increasing critical mineral capacity for both countries.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington - Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt continues to follow through on his commitment to transform the Department of the Interior’s (Department) ethics program, signing Secretary’s Order 3375. The Order doubles the number of career ethics officials hired at the Department since ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Assistant Secretary for Water and Science Anne Castle today will join U.S. Geological Survey Energy Resources Program Coordinator Brenda Pierce on a press conference call to release a new tool for public agencies and private companies to help guide smart landscape-level planning decisions that support domestic energy production while minimizing conflicts.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON DC – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today released Interior's information technology (IT) Transformation Strategic Plan, a major efficiency initiative that will leverage modern technology to save up to $500 million in taxpayer dollars by 2020.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the Bureau of Reclamation's Initial Central Valley Project (CVP) Water Supply Allocation for the 2011 contract year. This allocation reflects precipitation and snowpack in the Sierra Nevadas to date and improved carryover reservoir storage.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: LAKE SAMMAMISH, Wash. – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today joined local conservation leaders to announce that Lake Sammamish, Wash., has been chosen as one of eight pilot partnerships nationwide under the Urban Wildlife Refuge Initiative. The partnership will help connect people in the Seattle metro-area to the great outdoors and, in particular, efforts to restore kokanee salmon runs in the Lake Sammamish Watershed.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – In accordance with President Donald J. Trump’s Executive Order 13781 , the Executive Branch will undergo a reorganization to better meet the needs of Americans in the 21st century. Today the President announced a proposal to merge administrative responsibilities from other agencies into ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the Department of the Interior's projects under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for Massachusetts. Across its Bureaus, the Department will invest $18.2 million in Massachusetts as part of the recovery plan signed ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: NEW YORK, NY - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today highlighted historic progress on three major projects at Gateway National Recreation Area that will make the park more accessible to New York City residents and provide opportunities for outdoor recreation and education as part of President Obama's America's Great Outdoors initiative.
