On Monday, Feb. 22, 2010 --Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will be joined by other top Interior officials at the Interior Department in Washington, D.C. where he will sign a Secretarial Order providing a framework for a national strategy to provide sustainable water supplies, announce a departmental goal for increasing water supplies in the West, and discuss how the Administration's proposed FY 2011 budget supports this initiative.
The event will take place in the high-tech Interior Operations Center and include a geospatial visual presentation about water supply and demand in the United States narrated by Assistant Secretary Anne Castle.
Who: Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar
Deputy Secretary David Hayes
Assistant Secretary for Water and Science Anne Castle
Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Michael Connor
What: News conference to sign secretarial order and announce related water supply goals and programs
Geospatial Audiovisual Presentation
Q&A
Where: Interior Operations Center, Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
When: Monday, Feb. 22, 2010: 1 p.m. Eastern Time.
Media: All credentialed news organizations are invited to attend the event. Please arrive at C Street Entrance to Interior Building no later than 12:40 p.m. Eastern Time to clear security screening and be escorted to the operations center.
Source: Department of Interior
