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The Department of the Interior today announced an investment of $9 million through President Biden’s Investing in America agenda for groundwater recharge, storage and recovery, and a water rights transition program in Kansas.

A filing in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit today requests that the Court take steps to close out litigation and give effect to the settlement agreement signed by Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland and the Jemez Pueblo, which in part recognizes the Jemez Pueblo’s rights to occupy and use Banco Bonito in the Valles Caldera National Preserve for traditional cultural and religious purposes. Banco Bonito constitutes approximately 3,035 acres within the 88,900-acre Preserve.

This week, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland was in New Mexico and Colorado to highlight how President Biden’s Investing in America agenda is restoring our nation’s public lands and waters, strengthening Indian Country and the use of Indigenous Knowledge, and building a next-generation conservation workforce through the Indian Youth Service Corps which is part of the Administration’s new American Climate Corps.

The Department of the Interior today announced significant strides in expanding geothermal energy on public lands, an abundant clean energy resource with tremendous potential to help the country meet the Biden-Harris administration’s goal of a carbon pollution-free power sector by 2035.

The Department of the Interior today celebrated the signing of three landmark agreements with Alaska Native Tribes and Corporations to advance co-stewardship on public lands and waters.

The Departments of the Interior and Agriculture today announced a final rule to strengthen Alaska Tribal representation on the Federal Subsistence Board (FSB), which manages subsistence use on federal lands and waters in Alaska.

The Department of the Interior, the California Natural Resource Agency and other stakeholders today broke ground on the latest phase of the Salton Sea Species Conservation Habitat Project funded in part through President Biden’s Investing in America agenda.

Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks Shannon Estenoz, and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Kathryn Isom-Clause traveled to Carlisle, Pennsylvania today as part of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative.

The Department of the Interior today released draft guidance on how states can apply for up to $40 million each in Regulatory Improvement Grant funding available under President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to create jobs and clean up polluting and unsafe orphaned oil and gas wells across the country.

The Department of the Interior and the Justice Department on Thursday convened a roundtable discussion with Tribal representatives, advocates, members of the media, and survivors to discuss how media coverage can be improved when reporting on the crisis of missing or murdered Indigenous peoples (MMIP) and human trafficking (HT).