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This Week, at Interior

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June is National Ocean Month, and Secretary
Haaland helped celebrate with remarks during

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Capitol Hill Ocean Week.

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She talked about Interior’s “blue portfolio,”
and how it’s managed by agency bureaus and

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offices committed to conserving and restoring
coastal and ocean resources.

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Each of us, has a responsibility to future
generations to care for our Earth and leave

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behind a livable planet for our children,
grandchildren, and future generations.

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As we manage our ocean and its boundless resources,
I am committed to working closely with Congress

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to ensure the President’s budget priorities
for conservation, clean energy, and environmental

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justice are at the forefront of our work.

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Interior and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
this week announced the first-ever assessment

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of offshore wind energy potential in the Gulf
of Mexico.

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It’s another milestone in the Biden-Harris
administration’s goal to create tens of

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thousands of good-paying union jobs through
the deployment of 30 gigawatts of offshore

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wind by 2030.

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Elsewhere this week the Department announced
another first, a proposed lease sale for offshore

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wind development in the New York Bight.

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That’s an area of shallow waters that stretches
from Long Island in the north to Cape May

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New Jersey in the south.

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It could generate enough megawattage to power
nearly three and a half-million homes.

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This would be the first offshore lease sale
under Secretary Haaland’s leadership.

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Interior’s slice of the proposed Fiscal
Year 2022 budget may be an increase of 17%

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over last year, but that’s just where the
story starts.

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Secretary Haaland says preserving our historic
sites and lands for future generations is

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at the heart of what Interior does, and that
she’s committed to centering the voices,

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history, and stories of those who have been
unrepresented and underrepresented.

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The Biden-Harris administration’s 2022 budget
proposal includes increases across the Department

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to better address diversity, equity, inclusion,
and accessibility in the workforce.

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The National Park Service this week announced
visitor spending at the nation’s parks last

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year approached $29 billion, and supported
more than a quarter-million jobs.

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Most of that economic impact affected communities
within sixty miles of a national park, generating

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business sales while supporting jobs and local
economies.

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And the National Park Service this week announced
the reopening of Arlington House, The Robert

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E. Lee Memorial, after a complete three-year
rehabilitation, and a transformation of the

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visitor experience.

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New exhibits and research allows visitors
to learn the history of the Custis and Lee

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families, alongside that of the more than
100 enslaved people who labored on the plantation.

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And our social media Picture of the Week,
the brilliant colors of lupine {loopin’}

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flowers blooming in the Bald Hills of California’s
Redwood National and State Parks.

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The towering flowers, as tall as three feet,
bring out thousands of visitors every year...and

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the star of this late spring glow up is the
riverbank lupine, which is said to make the

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whole hillside smell like grape soda.

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That’s This Week, at Interior.