News published on Federal Newswire in December 2022

News from December 2022


USDOJ-OJP-OVW offers new grant application process starting Dec. 21

OVW Fiscal Year 2023 Legal Assistance for Victims - Solicitation grant opened on Dec. 21.



Manhattan Project Scientists: Luis Walter Alvarez

News Release: Quick Facts. Significance: Experimental physicist and Nobel Prize winner. Place of Birth: San Francisco, CA. Date of Birth: June 13, 1911. Place of Death: Berkeley, CA. Date of Death: Sept. 1, 1988. Place of Burial: Cremated (ashes spread over Monterey Bay). Born in San Francisco in 1911, Luis Alvarez...


Interior Department discusses Notice of Inventory Completion Amendment: Museum of Us, San Diego, CA on Dec. 20

The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Dec. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.



Drug Enforcement Administration Announces the Seizure of Over 379 million Deadly Doses of Fentanyl in 2022

News Release: WASHINGTON - As 2022 comes to an end, the Drug Enforcement Administration is announcing the seizure of over 50.6 million fentanyl-laced, fake prescription pills and more than 10,000 pounds of fentanyl powder this calendar year. The DEA Laboratory estimates that these seizures represent more than 379 million potentially deadly doses of fentanyl.


Notice published by Homeland Security Department on Dec. 20

The US Homeland Security Department published a two page notice on Dec. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a four page notice on Dec. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


EPA Adds Hercules Inc. Site in Hattiesburg, Mississippi to the Superfund National Priorities List to Clean Up Pollution and Protect Public Health

News Release: HATTIESBURG, Miss. (Dec. 20, 2022) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it has added two sites to the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL) where releases of contamination pose significant human health and environmental risks. The addition of Hercules Inc. in ...


NIST and AIM Photonics Team Up on High Frequency Optical/Electronic Chips

News Release: GAITHERSBURG, Md. - The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has entered into a cooperative research and development agreement with AIM Photonics that will give chip developers a critical new tool for designing faster chips that use both optical and electrical...



News Release: Delegates to the Convention on Biological Diversity 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) in Montreal adopted a sweeping and ambitious Global Biodiversity Framework committing, for the first time, to conserving or protecting at least 30 percent of global lands and waters by 2030. President Biden committed the United States to the same goal during his first days in office.


Notice of Inventory Completion: Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH discussed on Dec. 20 by Interior Department

The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Dec. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: Memphis, TN - When Federal prisoners are finished with their incarceration, they are often placed in Bureau of Prisons Halfway Houses. These serve to introduce prisoners into society in a gradual way. Prisoners can work outside the facility or see family while still having oversight and structure as they transition to life post confinement.


Georgia Man Sentenced To 14 Years In Federal Prison For Submitting More Than $2.9 Billion In False Tax Claims To The IRS

News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge John Antoon II has sentenced David O. Isagba to 14 years in federal prison for mail fraud and conspiring to defraud the United States with respect to tax claims. This sentence was imposed consecutively to Isagba’s 2022 conviction for possession of child pornography from the Eastern District of New York.


EPA Adds Sites in Mississippi and Nebraska to the Superfund National Priorities List to Clean Up Pollution and Protect Public Health

News Release: WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it has added two sites to the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL) where releases of contamination pose significant human health and environmental risks. The addition of Hercules Inc. in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and ...


DOI-FWS grant application closes on Sept. 30

F23AS00124 FY23 Recovery Implementation grant opened on Dec. 21.



The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Dec. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Notice published on Dec. 20 by Commerce Department

The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Dec. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.