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U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, announced the downlisting of Hawaii’s state bird, the nēnē at Pearl Harbor National Wildlife Refuge.

President Donald Trump signed Executive Order (Order), establishing the Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives (Task Force), which will be co-chaired by U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt and Attorney General William P. Barr. 

The Department of the Interior’s National Park Service today announced $47.8 million in emergency supplemental assistance grants for the recovery and repair of historic resources in areas impacted in 2018 by Hurricanes Florence and Michael, as well as Typhoon Yutu. Communities in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, the Northern Mariana Islands, South Carolina and Virginia will receive funding for various historic preservation projects related to hurricane and typhoon recovery efforts.

U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, along with U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials, and their counterparts from the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, announced the establishment of the Green River National Wildlife Refuge near the confluence of the Ohio and Green rivers in Henderson, Kentucky. 

"A lot of the infrastructure in our parks is a half a century old or older. Maintaining roads and bridges, visitor centers, historic buildings, trails and campgrounds, therefore, is a difficult task."

The United States and Australia Formalize Partnership on Critical Minerals

Yesterday, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt announced on Bloomberg that the Department of the Interior’s Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) disbursed $11.69 billion in Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 from energy production on federal and American Indian-owned lands and offshore areas.

 Today, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) announced the issuance of a Final Rule amending its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) regulations. The revisions will help create a more efficient and transparent process that are aligned with recent legal developments, court decisions and policy guidance from the Department of Justice (DOJ) and has bipartisan support from Congress.

The Department of the Interior's Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR) disbursed $11.69 billion in Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 from energy production on federal and American Indian-owned lands and offshore areas.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump announced his intention to nominate Lanny Erdos to serve as the Director of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE). U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt applauded the action.