This Week at Interior April 7, 2023

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2023Apr 7

This week: Secretary Haaland traveled to Houston to highlight investments to address legacy pollution; Deputy Secretary Beaudreau announced co-stewardship efforts in the Arctic, Kuskokwim and Norton Sound Region; Interior leadership visited the Colorado River Basin to announce a nearly $585 million investment in aging infrastructure; the Gila River Indian Community will receive $233 million in historic funding and conservation agreements; four small surface and groundwater storage projects in California and Utah will receive a $20 million investment; the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement has completed its review of critical design and installation reports for the South Fork Wind project; Native artists and crafters will help shape new rules to ensure the authenticity of Indian-made products; Assistant Secretary for Water and Science Tanya Trujillo participated in a Nihimá Nahasdzáán Gallery Event to showcase Landsat imagery of the Navajo Nation; the Bureau of Land Management celebrated the conveyance of five acres of public land in Nevada for affordable housing; the National Park Service announced the addition of 963 acres to New River Gorge National Park and Preserve in West Virginia; and our social media picture of the week the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument.