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This Week at Interior

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In New Orleans this week Deputy Secretary 
Kate MacGregor announced a region-wide Gulf  

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of Mexico Lease Sale generating more than one 
hundred twenty-million dollars in high bids  

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for ninety-three tracts in federal waters.

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Last year was a record year for American offshore 
oil production, at nearly 597 million barrels, or  

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15% of domestic oil production, and $5.7 billion 
in direct revenues to the government. Offshore  

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oil and gas also supported 275,000 total domestic 
jobs and $60 billion total economic contributions.

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Revenues received from Outer Continental 
Shelf leases are directed to the newly  

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created National Parks and Public Land Legacy 
Restoration Fund, as well as the U.S. Treasury,  

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the Land and Water Conservation Fund, the Historic 
Preservation Fund, and certain Gulf Coast states.  

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The states use these funds to support coastal 
conservation and restoration projects...hurricane  

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protection programs... and activities to implement 
marine, coastal or conservation management plans.

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Secretary Bernhardt this week announced that 
wildfire risk was reduced across a million and  

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a half acres of Interior-managed lands in 2020, 
bringing that total to nearly five and a half  

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million acres since 2017. That’s the most acreage 
to be covered in a single Presidential term  

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since Interior started tracking data in 2003. The 
Secretary signed a record of decision earlier this  

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year, requiring the construction and maintenance 
of a system of up to 11,000 miles of strategically  

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placed fuel breaks within a 223 million-acre area 
in portions of California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon,  

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Utah and Washington. These efforts will continue 
to reduce hazardous fuel loads, protect water  

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quality, mitigate severe flooding and erosion, 
address the spread of invasive species, and  

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improved public roads used by emergency services 
to best protect communities from wildfires.

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Secretary Bernhardt designated Wrigley Field 
in Chicago as a National Historic Landmark,  

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recognizing the significant role 
the baseball stadium has played  

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in both the city and the history of 
professional sports. Built in 1914,  

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Wrigley Field has been the home of the Chicago 
Cubs since 1916, a National League charter  

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franchise dating to 1876. Two years younger 
than Fenway Park in Boston, Wrigley Field  

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is the second oldest ballpark in Major League 
Baseball and the oldest in the National League.

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Who says you can’t fit the prairie in your 
pocket? The US Mint has released its 55th America  

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the Beautiful Quarter Three-Coin Set featuring 
Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve in Kansas.  

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The design shows a skyward view 
of a Regal Fritillary butterfly  

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among a background of Big bluestem and 
Indian grass, both iconic to the preserve.

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Mark your calendars…the National Park Service 
says we’ll all be able to watch the 98th  

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National Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony on 
December 3rd at thenationaltree.org. There  

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will be no live audience this year because 
of COVID concerns, but visitors are invited  

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to President's Park throughout the month of 
December to view the National Christmas Tree  

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and 56 trees representing every US state, 
territory and the District of Columbia.

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And our social media Picture of the Week, the 
season’s first snowfall at Pilot Rock in *Oregon  

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and California’s* Cascade-Siskiyou National 
Monument. Pilot Rock is a volcanic plug mountain,  

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a geologic description for what’s left after 
a volcano erodes away. It’s just one of the  

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special areas protected in the national monument, 
part of the wonderland of the Pacific Northwest.

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That’s This Week at Interior.