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This Week at Interior

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Interior this week took several steps to honor
our nation-to-nation relationship with Tribes

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and uphold the Department's trust and treaty
responsibilities.

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A new Secretarial Order will re-delegate authority
to review and approve applications to place

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tribal land into trust to the Bureau of Indian
Affairs' regional directors...that move speeds

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up the pace for Tribes to develop housing
projects, manage law enforcement agencies

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and develop local economies.

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Interior's Solicitor's Office also issued
rulings that speed up the land into trust

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process, and expanded Interior's authority
over that process for the benefit of Alaska

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Natives.

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At a White House Press Briefing last week,
the Secretary spoke about the Biden-Harris

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Administrations "all of government approach"
to tribal engagement.

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For too long, Indian issues were relegated
to the Tribal offices within federal agencies.

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If we’re going to make sure that Native
American and Alaska Native communities thrive,

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that Tribal sovereignty is respected and strengthened.

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And if we are truly to repair our nation-to-nation
relationships, then that means every federal

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agency needs to be thinking boldly about our
obligations to Indigenous Peoples.

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Secretary Haaland joined the Second Gentleman
of the United States Douglas Emhoff to mark

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National Park Week, and to announce sixteen
additions to the National Park Service’s

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National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom
Program.

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They join nearly 700 other sites, programs,
and facilities in the network that honor,

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preserve, and promote the history of resistance
to enslavement through escape and flight.

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The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management this
week announced it will prepare an Environmental

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Impact Statement for the Construction and
Operations Plan submitted by Revolution Wind.

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If approved by BOEM, Revolution Wind would
be allowed to construct and operate an 880

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megawatt wind energy facility offshore Rhode
Island and Massachusetts.

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For the sixth year, people from around the
globe can get up-close-and-personal with an

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endangered California condor chick in real-time.

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The newest chick hatched earlier this month...its
parents are a ten-year old female and fifteen-year

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old male.

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Thanks to intensive, ongoing captive breeding
and recovery efforts led by the Fish and Wildlife

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Service and its partners, the California condor
population has grown to just over 500 birds

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worldwide.

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In 1982 there were only 22 birds in the wild.

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The Tyrannosaurus Rex has been extinct for
65 million years, but we're still learning

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new facts about history’s most fearsome
predator...and it turns out they may have

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been even scarier than we imagine.

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The Bureau of Land Management says new research
from Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National

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Monument reveals T-Rex may not have been a
solitary predator, but instead hunted in packs,

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much like modern wolves.

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You can find out more, and get a virtual tour
of the monument's paleontology lab, at "utahpubliclands"

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on Instagram.

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And our social media Picture of the Week,
this Florida bobcat prowling around the Sunshine

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State's Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.

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Occupying 140,000 acres on Florida's largest
barrier island, the refuge shares its space

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with the Kennedy Space Center...it's home
for a thousand plant species, hundreds of

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varieties of birds, and dozens of species
of fish, reptiles, and mammals.

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That's This Week, at Interior.