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This Week at Interior

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Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environment
Enforcement is part of the unified command

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responding this week to an oil spill off the
coast of Orange County, California. BSEE shares

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responsibility for managing the pipeline with
the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety

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Administration, the California State Fire
Marshal and the California Department of Conservation.

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While the U.S. Coast Guard is leading containment
and cleanup efforts, BSEE, the U.S. Fish and

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Wildlife Service, and other Interior offices
are assisting in the response.

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Secretary Haaland took part in two listening
sessions this week, as Interior continues

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to mark Hispanic Heritage Month. The first
session with Hispanic and Latino elected officials

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included the Governor of Puerto Rico, Pedro
Pierluisi. And the second session, hosted

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by the League of United Latin American Citizens,
focused on the role and presence of Latinos

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in the conservation movement.

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The Secretary this week announced $348 million
for 62 projects in Nevada and the California

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side of the Lake Tahoe Basin. Those projects
are dedicated to recreation improvement, wildlife

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habitat conservation, hazardous fuels reduction,
wildfire prevention, and other purposes through

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the sale of public lands under the Southern
Nevada Public Land Management Act.

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Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Bryan
Newland and Bureau of Indian Education Director

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Tony Dearman led a forum this week for students
and their families, addressing COVID-19 vaccinations,

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and discussing the best ways to provide the
safest, in-person educational environment

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possible. All educators at BIE schools must
be fully vaccinated by October 15th. The forum

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was conducted in coordination with the CDC
and the Indian Health Service.

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Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey
are keeping a watching eye this week on Hawai'i's

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Mount Kilauea volcano after its latest eruption.
Over the past several days a layer of molten

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lava nearly 90-feet thick has accumulated
at the base of the crater. The eruption is

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currently confined within Hawai‘i Volcanoes
National Park, and USGS expects it will remain

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within the summit region.

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The National Park Service's American Battlefield
Protection Program awarded more than $900,000

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to its preservation partners across the country
this week. Among the recipients was the Fort

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Ticonderoga Association, which will use the
funding to increase access to the National

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Historic Landmark known as Liberty Hill. The
site was occupied and reoccupied by Continental,

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British, Native American and German troops
throughout the Revolutionary War.

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Vice President Harris kicked off the Combined
Federal Campaign this week. That's the official

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workplace giving campaign for federal employees
and retirees, which has raised more than eight

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and a half billion dollars for charities and
people in need for the last 60 years. Secretary

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Haaland is the co-chair of this year's campaign,
which runs through January 15th, 2022.

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And our social media Picture of the Week,
this majestic bighorn sheep at Glacier National

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Park in Montana. It's one of more than seventy
species of mammal that call the park home...it's

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also one of very few that can survive the
park's frigid winters at high elevations.

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Glacier National Park has over a million acres,
and it's surrounded by national forests and

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wilderness areas where there's plenty of room
to roam, whether you're a sheep or not.

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That’s This Week, at Interior