News from November 2021
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior today announced the release of a Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (FSEIS) for Chukchi Sea Lease Sale 193, which moves the Department one step closer to resolving federal court concerns regarding the 2008 oil and gas leases offshore Alaska. ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced today that the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) is making $369 million available to states and tribes to restore abandoned coal mines, an increase of over $70 million from last year.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON DC - Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) Director Dan Ashe today announced that the Service has reached an agreement with the State of Wyoming that will result in revisions to the state's management plan for the gray wolf. The points of agreement, ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell issued the following statement today regarding the Secretarial Commission on Indian Trust Administration and Reform:
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior will continue to process eligible pending applications for gaming on Indian lands while it consults and collaborates with tribal leaders in a comprehensive review of federal Indian gaming policy, Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Larry Echo Hawk said today.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today praised President Obama for signing into law legislation to change the name of Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge in Mississippi to the Sam D. Hamilton Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge, in honor of the late director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Nov. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior today announced it will conduct consultations with Tribal and Native Hawaiian community leaders as part of an ongoing review to update Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) regulations.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today applauded the Senate's confirmation of Tracie Stevens as chair of the National Indian Gaming Commission. The President nominated Stevens on April 28, 2010.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced a $2,508,350 grant award to expand the capabilities of the Early Childhood Education Center on Yap in the Federated States of Micronesia. The two-story facility will feature new classrooms, offices spaces, and conference and training rooms for children in the Western Pacific island state affiliated with the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – In support of President Donald J. Trump's America-First Offshore Energy Strategy , Deputy Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt today announced that region-wide Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 251 generated $178,069,406 in high bids for 144 tracts covering 801,288 acres in federal waters of the Gulf of Mexico. A total of 29 companies participated in the lease sale, submitting $202,667,923 in bids.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced additional actions to assist water users in California, particularly farmers in the West Side of the San Joaquin Valley, who have been severely impacted by three years of drought and reduced allocations of Federal Central Valley Project (CVP) water.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON -- The Department of the Interior's U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today unveiled a national management plan to address the threat posed by white-nose syndrome, which has killed more than a million hibernating bats in eastern North America since it was discovered near Albany, New York in 2006.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
Release: LAWRENCE, KS – On Friday, May 8, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell will deliver the commencement address at the Haskell Indian Nations University 2015 Graduation Ceremony. Haskell is commemorating its 130th year of providing education and opportunity to Native American communities nationwide.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: White House. It is an honor to be here today with all of you who worked so hard, for so many years, to write this new chapter for America's treasured landscapes. . Over the last two centuries, America's best ideas for protecting our vast lands and open spaces have often arrived while our country has faced ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. –Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar participated in an historic roundtable of many of the nation's top leaders today at a summit examining how development of renewable energy in conjunction with a “National Clean Energy Smart Grid” is an economic, environmental and national security imperative.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: NAPA, Calif. – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today visited the Berryessa Snow Mountain Region of California where she joined Congressmen Mike Thompson and John Garamendi for a public meeting to hear from the community about its vision for the management of public lands in several counties ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: PHOENIX, Arizona – As part of the Obama Administration's efforts to build strong and prosperous tribal communities and the Climate Action Plan to cut carbon pollution and create clean energy jobs, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced the approval of the 200-megawatt Moapa ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of the Interior today released the 2016 Status Report for the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations (Buy-Back Program), which highlights the steps taken to date to strengthen tribal sovereignty, consolidate fractional interests, and provide new opportunities to Native American communities.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 17, 2021
News Release: DENVER, Colo. – Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today joined Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper and U.S. Michael Bennet to announce a landmark settlement agreement that will help protect the Roan Plateau near Rifle, Colorado, while also encouraging natural gas development. The settlement helps protect wildlife and supports opportunities for outdoor recreation and energy development, all of which play an important role in Colorado's economy.
