News published on Federal Newswire in September 2022

News from September 2022


FNS Awards Grant to Louisiana to Provide Mobile Payment Options for WIC Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program


FNS Awards Grant to The Chickasaw Nation to Provide Mobile Payment Options for WIC Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program


Containerboard Manufacturer Will Pay $2.5M for Violating Clean Air Act at its Louisiana Mill

News Release: WASHINGTON - Packaging Corporation of America (PCA), headquartered in Illinois, has agreed to pay $2.5 million in civil penalties to resolve allegations that it violated the Clean Air Act’s General Duty Clause and Risk Management Program Regulations at its containerboard production mill in DeRidder, Louisiana.


Umatilla County Drug Dealer Faces Federal Charges

News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A federal grand jury in Portland has returned an indictment charging an Eastern Oregon man with distributing large quantities of fentanyl and methamphetamine in and around Umatilla County, Oregon.


USDA Encourages Ag Producers, Residents to Prepare for Hurricane Ian


Statement from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on the Biden-Harris National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health


USDA Provee Alivio a Hogares Impactados por Huracán Fiona


USDA Provides Relief to Households Hit by Hurricane Fiona


USDA Launches $100 Million Healthy School Meals Initiative, Announces Grant Program for Rural Schools


USDA to Invest $8 Million to Expand Monitoring of Soil Carbon


APHIS Revises Requirements for Importing Fresh Sand Pear Fruit from the Republic of Korea into the United States


APHIS Authorizes Importation of Fresh Turmeric Rhizome from Samoa into the United States


APHIS Removes the Mexican Fruit Fly (Anastrepha ludens) Quarantine Area in Weslaco, Hidalgo County, Texas


Leader of Oxycodone Distribution Network Sentenced for Decade-Long Conspiracy

News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Front Royal woman was sentenced today to seven years in prison for being the ringleader of a decade-long oxycodone distribution network, sourcing high-dosage oxycodone pills from a doctor in Arlington.


APHIS Seeks Comment on Draft Pest Risk Assessment for the Importation of Ornamental Cherry Cuttings from Japan


News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ROY REID, also known as “Jama," 34, of New Haven, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Sarala V. Nagala in Hartford to a fentanyl trafficking offense.


Oneida County Man Pleads Guilty to Mailing a Threatening Letter

News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Richard Hileman, age 39, of Marcy, New York, pled guilty today to mailing a threatening communication. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Janeen DiGuiseppi, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).


“Highlights + Senate“ was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1336-D1338 on Dec. 18, 2015


Homeland Security Department discusses Extension of Import Restrictions on Archaeological and Ecclesiastical Ethnological Materials From Guatemala on Sept. 28

The US Homeland Security Department published a three page rule on Sept. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


How politicians on Ways and Means Committee dealt with bills on Sept. 28

There was activity on seven bills related to the Ways and Means Committee on Sept. 28.