News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) proposed rule to streamline the royalty rate reduction process will remove unnecessary and overly burdensome requirements providing much needed regulatory relief and efficiencies for non-energy solid leasable minerals, such as soda ash, potash, phosphate, ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that more than 1,850 local governments around the nation will receive payments totaling $358.1 million under the Payments in Lieu of Taxes program this year to compensate them for non-taxable federal land in their jurisdictions.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ST. JOHN, U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS – As part of the Obama Administration’s Every Kid in a Park initiative , U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today joined fourth graders from the Julius E. Sprauve elementary ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Dan Ashe announced that the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission has approved more than $1.3 million from the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund to protect an estimated 1,368 acres of waterfowl habitat on three units of the National Wildlife Refuge System.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- The Department of the Interior today began to implement President Obama's Executive Order 13563 on “Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review,” by asking for public comment on ways to make its regulations less burdensome and more effective. To facilitate public comment on its regulations, the Department has set up a webpage where the public can access its regulations and an e-mail in-box where the public can submit suggestions on an ongoing basis.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) are seeking public comments to inform the land allotment program for Alaska Native Vietnam-era veterans. The provision was enacted as a part of the John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act , which ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: IGNACIO, Colo. - During a multi-stop tour across Colorado today, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland discussed the Department of the Interior’s support for rural and Tribal communities as the nation transitions to a robust, sustainable clean energy future. Secretary Haaland also highlighted locally ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: CONCORD, CA – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today toured Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial, the site of a tragic munitions explosion that killed more than 300 mostly African American sailors during World War II and the first addition to the National Park System under President Obama.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-- Under an unprecedented agreement announced today by the Natural Resource Trustees for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill (Trustees), BP has agreed to provide $1 billion toward early restoration projects in the Gulf of Mexico to address injuries to natural resources caused by the spill. ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ORICK, Calif. - As part of the Biden-Harris administration’s America the Beautiful initiative, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and White House Council on Environmental Quality Chair Brenda Mallory traveled to Redwood National and State Parks today, where they met with community leaders who are forging collaborative, locally led partnerships to conserve and restore California’s Redwood forests and increase climate resiliency.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: HOLDEN, W.Va. – On Friday, June 5, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Director of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) Joseph Pizarchik will visit surface mining and mine land reclamation projects in West Virginia.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Department of the Interior announced today that the Bureau of Reclamation will provide $20.7 million for the Delta-Mendota Canal/California Aqueduct Intertie project under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Following an extensive public process, and with overwhelming public support, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized the creation of Great Thicket National Wildlife Refuge, dedicated to conserving and managing shrubland and young forests for wildlife in New England and eastern New York. The approval of the refuge marks a key step, enabling the Service to now work with willing and interested landowners to acquire land.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Scam Involved Filing of False Income Tax Returns.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
The US Interior Department published a one page proposed rule on Nov. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: CHEYENNE, WY-Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Wyoming Governor Matt Mead today convened a meeting with representatives from eight western states to discuss ongoing efforts to conserve the greater sage-grouse and identify next steps in implementing a landscape level strategy that will benefit the species while maintaining a robust economy in the West.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. – As part of the Obama Administration’s Every Kid in a Park initiative , U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today visited Saguaro ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.--Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced the establishment of a new Secretarial Commission on Indian Trust Administration and Reform that will conduct a comprehensive evaluation of Interior's trust management and provide recommendations on how to improve performance. The ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced that the United States is nominating a group of 10 buildings in seven states designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright for inclusion on the World Heritage List, which recognizes the most significant cultural and natural sites on the planet.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: BEND, Oregon – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today joined Oregon Governor Kate Brown and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary Ann Mills to celebrate landmark agreements that will allow landowners in all eight Eastern and Central Oregon counties with greater sage-grouse ...
