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Title: This Week at Interior!
Our weekly recap of events at the U.S. Department of the Interior
This Week at Interior
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This Week: Secretary Haaland announces members of the federal advisory group tasked with identifying and recommending changes to derogatory place names; nearly $725 million in funding is now available to address legacy pollution caused by past coal mining; a South Dakota ribbon cutting celebrates a $75.5 million investment into the Lewis & Clark Regional Water System; a major solar energy project is fully operational in California; $2 million in grants help repatriate ancestral remains and ceremonial objects; Carmen G. Cantor is sworn-in as Assistant Secretary for Insular and International Affairs; Interior takes steps to honor the sacrifices made by Alaska Native Vietnam-era Veterans; NASA transfers operational control of Landsat 9 to the U.S. Geological Survey; the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement celebrates its 45th birthday; and a tower of light shines in our social media Picture of the Week! 

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New Federal Advisory Committee Members to Address Derogatory Place Names

A long irrigation ditch stretches across a plowed field

Secretary Haaland marked the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples this week with an announcement of the members of the new Advisory Committee on Reconciliation in Place Names. The federal advisory group is tasked with identifying and recommending changes to derogatory terms still in use for places throughout the country. 

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Interior Announces $725 Million For Legacy Pollution in Coal Country

A stream flows past a hillside showing exposed coal

Interior has announced nearly $725 million from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is now available to 22 states and the Navajo Nation to reclaim abandoned mine lands. That funding will boost local economies and create good-paying union jobs while addressing the legacy of pollution caused by past coal mining. 

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Assistant Secretary Trujillo Highlights Infrastructure Funds in South Dakota

Interior view of a water tank at a treatment facility

Assistant Secretary for Water and Science Tanya Trujillo joined Bureau of Reclamation leaders this week in South Dakota at a ribbon cutting event to celebrate a $75.5 million investment from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law into the Lewis & Clark Regional Water System. 

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Interior Announces Palen Solar Project at Full Power

A large field of solar energy panels in the desert 

The Bureau of Land Management this week announced that the Palen Solar Project in Riverside County, California, is fully operational. The 457-megawatt facility will supply enough energy to power approximately 116,000 homes. 

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NPS Awards $2.1 Million To Tribes, Museums to Repatriation of Ancestral Remains

A woman and two men stand near a sacred Native American object sitting on a table 

The National Park Service this week announced more than $2 million in grants to nine Tribes and 20 museums to assist in the consultation, documentation and repatriation of ancestral remains. The grants will also fund the transportation and return of cultural items and funerary objects back to their rightful location. 

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Carmen G. Cantor Sworn-in as Assistant Secretary for Insular and International Affairs

Secretary Deb Haaland signs a document as Assistant Secretary Carmen G. Cantor look on

Carmen G. Cantor was sworn-in this week as Assistant Secretary for Insular and International Affairs by Secretary Haaland. Carmen most recently served as U.S. Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Federated States of Micronesia. 

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Public Lands Opened to Alaska Native Vietnam-Era Veterans

A river flows past a mountain in the Alaska wilderness

Secretary Haaland this week issued a Public Land Order opening about 27 million acres of public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management for eligible Alaska Native Vietnam-era Veterans under the 2019 Dingell Act. This action makes good on Interior’s work to honor the sacrifices made by Alaska Native veterans who were unable to apply for allotments because of past military service. 

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NASA Hands Over Landsat Control to U.S. Geological Survey

Animation of Landsat Nine in Earth orbit

A historic handover this week, as NASA transferred operational control of Landsat 9 to the U.S. Geological Survey. Landsat 9 was launched last September, the newest member of the family of Earth observation satellites first launched 50 years ago.  

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Interior Observes 45th Anniversary of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement

Green grass grows on the terraced hills at the site of a reclaimed coal mine

Secretary Haaland joined Interior leaders to mark the 45th anniversary of the enactment of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, the landmark law that created the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement. This year's themeReinvigorating coal country over the next 15 years as the nation shifts to clean energy. 

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Tweet of the Week

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Secretary Deb Haaland  @SecDebHaaland

Today’s Senate vote advancing the Inflation Reduction Act is a significant step toward achieving President Biden’s ambitious goals to tackle the climate crisis while lowering costs for working families and creating good-paying jobs.

Tweet from President Biden about bill reducing drug and health insurance costs

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Picture of the Week

Boardwalk leading the way to a black and white lighthouse with the Milky Way rising behind it.

Our social media Picture of the Week is a stunning image of the Milky Way in the skies above North Carolina's Bodie Island Light Station. For a century and a half, the lighthouse and its powerful light beam have kept silent watch over the waters off Cape Hatteras and the Outer Banks, often called the “Graveyard of the Atlantic” for the unusually high number of shipwrecks. 

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