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Deputy Secretary Connor today approved the Four Corners Power Plant (FCPP) and Navajo Mine Energy Project in northwestern New Mexico, under a plan that would minimize and mitigate the project’s projected environmental impacts while maintaining the substantial economic benefits of coal mining and energy production for the Navajo Nation, Hopi Tribe and local communities.

The proposed Stream Protection Rule released today would include reasonable and straightforward reforms to revise three-decades-old regulations for coal mining in order to avoid or minimize impacts on surface water, groundwater, fish, wildlife, and other natural resources. The proposed rule, which reflects updated science, would replace the 1983 regulations and would better protect the resources.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Interior Secretary Sally Jewell joined members of Congress, California State and local elected officials, and community members in praising the President’s designation of the Berryessa Snow Mountain National Monument.

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell welcomed President Obama’s designation of the Waco Mammoth Site as one of the nation’s newest national monuments, permanently protecting an area with extremely well-preserved fossils of a Columbian Mammoth herd.

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today joined members of Congress, state elected officials, and local community leaders in applauding the President’s designation of the Basin and Range National Monument on public lands in southeastern Nevada.

Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced that the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) has awarded $11.8 million in Tribal Climate Resilience Program funding awards. The funding will help federally recognized tribes and tribally chartered organizations with climate change adaptation and ocean and coastal management planning projects.

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced today that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will host a series of listening sessions on the federal coal program.

An additional $2 million has been transferred to the Cobell Education Scholarship Fund, bringing the total amount contributed so far to $19.5 million, providing financial assistance to American Indian and Alaska Native students wishing to pursue post-secondary and graduate education and training.

Jewell today concluded an official Asia-Pacific trip with a visit to the U.S. Territory of Guam, where she met with Governor Eddie Calvo and addressed local business leaders, underscoring the vital importance of Guam to the Pacific region and the United States.

Secretary Jewell welcomed UNESCO's designation of the missions, including the Alamo. Much of the missions is public land managed by the Department of the Interior.