News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that Interior's Bureau of Reclamation is providing $2.4 million in funding for comprehensive water studies in California, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico and Oklahoma.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC –Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that the Bureau of Reclamation will invest $2.5 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program projects.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON DC -- Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced that the National Park Service will soon begin refilling the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after completing a historic renovation, including replacement of the pool's structure and installation of a sustainable, state-of-the-art circulation system that pulls water from the Tidal Basin. Nearly 25 million people visit the National Mall each year.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The Department of the Interior today announced that $2.9 million has been transferred to the Cobell Education Scholarship Fund. The Scholarship Fund was authorized by the historic Cobell Settlement and provides financial assistance through annual scholarships to American Indian and Alaska Native students wishing to pursue post-secondary education and training.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: LAS CRUCES, N.M. – On Friday, Jan. 24, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will join New Mexico Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich in a visit to the Organ Mountains region of south-central New Mexico. While there, Jewell will spend time exploring the area and will attend a public meeting hosted by Senators Udall and Heinrich regarding the community's vision to preserve, protect and enhance some of the public lands located in Doña Ana County.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014, Deputy Secretary of the Interior Mike Connor and Undersecretary of Department of Agriculture Robert Bonnie will join local officials in commemorating a joint watershed restoration agreement at C.C. Cragin Reservoir in Arizona. The agreement is one of ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: On Friday, March 3, 2017, newly sworn-in U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke will deliver remarks to Department of the Interior employees in the Bison Bistro. The date also marks Interior’s 168th birthday.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – As part of the historic U.S. Africa Leaders' Summit, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell, on behalf of the Obama Administration, today hosted four African heads of state including President Hifikepunye Pohamba of the Republic of Namibia, President Faure Gnassingbé of the Togolese ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: In the Past 24 Hours:. * The President has dispatched the secretaries of Commerce, Interior and Homeland Security, as well as the NOAA Administrator, to return to the Gulf Coast this week. Specific details on their travel will come from their departments and agencies, but collectively they will be inspecting ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - A coalition of federal agencies are working together to address the issue of how to close the digital divide and increase internet access across Indian Country. The Department of the Interior and the Institute of Museum and Library Services are partnering with the Department of Agriculture’s ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Deputy Secretary of the Interior David J. Hayes today announced Billings, Montana as the location for the first of six regional government-to-government tribal consultations regarding the Trust Land Consolidation component of the Cobell Settlement.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: This week, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt traveled to Colorado and touted the imminent benefits of moving the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) employees to western states and establishing a new headquarters in Grand Junction. Recent coverage highlights the bipartisan support for the decision.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Wednesday, April 10, 2013, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will provide an overview of the Obama administration's proposed fiscal year 2014 budget for the Department of the Interior in a 1:30 p.m. EST teleconference.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Today, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and Japan’s Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Hagiuda Koichi held an introductory meeting via teleconference. The Secretary congratulated the Minister on his recent reappointment by the Prime Minister. The Secretary and Minister discussed opportunities ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON –The White House today announced the intent to nominate several officials to serve at the Department of the Interior, including:
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 a contract totaling $27.74 million to the Navajo Engineering and Construction Authority for the construction of Reaches 2 through 6 of the Navajo Nation Municipal Pipeline. NECA, a construction ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: Washington. * July 10: Spokane (location TBD, contact Spokane District Office at 509-536-1200). An electronic copy of the Draft Programmatic EIS and associated documents is available on the BLM Land Use Planning and NEPA register. For comments to be considered, they must be received by the BLM no later ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today joined Bernice King, daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Dr. Christine King Farris, Dr. King's sister; Martin Luther King, III and National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis to celebrate the completed restoration of Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church's Heritage Sanctuary and Fellowship Hall.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: WASHINGTON – On Friday, Feb. 26, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management, Wilma Lewis, will welcome Talk Show Host Joe Madison to the Department of the Interior's Sidney Yates Auditorium in a special Black History Month Program open to the public.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: On Wednesday, March 24, 2010, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and Director of the Bureau of Land Management Bob Abbey will celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the National Landscape Conservation System at 3:30 p.m. ceremony in the Yates Auditorium of the Main Interior Building.
