News from December 2022
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
The owner of Jake’s Fireworks has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Daniel C. Comeaux, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
The Bureau of Reclamation’s California Great-Basin Region announced today the selection of Edward Young as the Region’s Program and Budget Office Manager.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced an agreement that updates guidelines to provide for the effective and efficient administration of criminal investigations in Indian Country.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
The Bureau of Reclamation has begun monthly operational adjustments with reduced releases from Glen Canyon Dam under the Drought Response Operations Agreement.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
In compliance with the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA), the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) today announced it will offer approximately 958,202 acres off Alaska’s southcentral coast in a lease sale scheduled for Dec. 30, 2022.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
The Bureau of Reclamation is providing $1.69 million to nine projects that offer innovative and novel water treatment technologies that may make previously unusable water available.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
The Department of the Interior today announced a historic agreement funded by the Inflation Reduction Act that will mitigate impacts from the worsening drought crisis impacting the Salton Sea in Southern California
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
The Bureau of Reclamation is asking its contractors receiving Central Valley Project water for municipal and industrial use to begin planning for potentially extremely limited water supply conditions in 2023
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is hosting four public workshops for the Melvin Price Locks and Dam water control manual revision.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
In mid-October, a local fisherman on the Yazoo Canal north of Vicksburg, Mississippi, stumbled upon a piece of history usually concealed by rippling muddy water.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
The delivery of an aquatic ecosystem restoration project at Harlan County Lake, Nebraska, was initiated upon the request of Nebraska Game and Parks Commission.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
The Dewey Short Visitor Center will close for the season Dec.1 and will reopen March 1, 2023.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District, and the City of Garden City, Idaho are inviting the public to attend an open house scoping meeting on December 7 regarding the Garden City Flood Risk Management General Investigation Study.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Vicksburg District will accept bids for property leasing at Arkabutla, Grenada and Enid lakes.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announced Lisa Ellis as the new Idaho state supervisor.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is listing the Puerto Rican harlequin butterfly, a rare, medium-sized butterfly native to the northern and west-central regions of Puerto Rico, as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). With this listing, the Service will also designate 41,266 acres in Puerto Rico as critical habitat and implement a 4(d) rule that will tailor take prohibitions for the conservation of the species.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
When Eugenia woodburyana was first listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in 1994, only 45 trees could be found in Puerto Rico, its only known location.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
Following a review of the best available scientific information, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has determined the Dixie Valley toad is at risk of extinction and is listing the species as endangered under the Endangered Species Act, continuing the protections applied to the toad in the emergency listing rule published April 7, 2022.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
Two plants that live on California’s Channel Islands and nowhere else on earth – the Santa Cruz Island dudleya and island bedstraw – have reached recovery thanks to Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections.
By Press release submission | Dec 5, 2022
After working around the clock for two weeks, the Biden-Harris administration announced Friday it has forged critical agreements to ensure legal, traceable and biologically sustainable international trade of wild animals and plants. U.S. government leaders met with over 2,000 representatives from more than 150 nations, non-governmental organizations, industry and academia at the 19th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP19) to the Convention on International
