Again, I would refer you to the Department of Interior and to Secretary Salazar.
The go-slow strategy of the Department of Interior is joined by Obama policy elsewhere.
Ken Salazar likes to say that the Department of the Interior is actually the Department of America.
Today the Department of Interior released its proposed rules governing oil and gas fracking on federal lands.
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President Obama recently nominated Sally Jewell to head the Department of Interior.
On December 29, 2011, I decided to travel to the U.S. territory of American-Samoa, which is overseen by the Department of Interior.
The Department of Interior noted that the new rule helps to implement the Helping Expedite and Advance Responsible Tribal Homeownership Act (HEARTH Act).
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MS. BROWNER: At the time of the accident, the President asked Ken Salazar at the Department of Interior to undertake a 30-day review.
As soon as we found out about it, we wrote a letter to the Department of Interior and they said, we'll look into it.
The President -- or the Department of Interior recently announced steps toward additional drilling -- or further drilling in the Arctic Ocean around Alaska.
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Remember, the drilling decisions that are made are made by now a collection of bureaus that used to comprise MMS in the Department of Interior.
Maybe you should address that question to the Department of Interior.
Similarly, the Department of Interior should not be able to meet its budget reduction by taking mineral revenues, which belong to the states under the law.
To combat fears about crime and graft, he named the Rambo-esque former mayor of Manila Alfredo Lim to head the department of interior and local government.
The Department of Interior which controls permits for drilling on federal onshore lands and the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) is also exerting a big influence upon fracking operations.
By December, the offshore ban was largely reinstated, so that in February 2011 a federal judge found the Department of Interior in contempt of court for its foot-dragging.
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In addition, the election is being held in violation of the Principle Chiefs Act, which requires a Cherokee leadership to submit its voting requirements to the Department of Interior.
Indur Goklany, a policy analyst in the Department of Interior, has documented similar sleights of hand when it comes to predictions of food and water shortages due to global warming.
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And so what my bill is saying, you do what you want to do but you cannot get money through the Department of Interior as long as you're discriminating against the freedmen.
Representative DIANE WATSON (Democrat, California): What they're doing is trying to purify the race when they agreed through the Department of Interior that they would include in their Nation all their former slaves.
And so we're not only asking DOI to sever all relations, but we're asking the Department of Interior to submit a report to Congress on the status of freedmen in all five nations.
After years of planning and delays, in 2009 the Army Corps of Engineers started construction on a project, funded by the Department of Interior, to replace one mile of the road with a bridge.
And secondly, again, not to get ahead of what the Department of Interior will say, but obviously they will take into account what the judge laid out in his initial ruling at the district court level.
Wendell, the President has asked for Secretary Salazar, as head of the Department of Interior and has purview over drilling issues, to investigate what happened with this incident and to report back to him in 30 days.
There certainly will be opportunities for, as that moves forward, for the Department of Interior to examine the evidence that comes back either from the engineers or the oil commission and update that process as we go along.
Investigations into the tribe's accounting system by the Department of the Interior and the Department of Labour have been unable to confirm that hundreds of thousands of federal dollars paid to the tribe were spent for the purposes intended.
Talbot and Mr. David Hales were also awarded certificates from the Department of State and the Department of the Interior in recognition of their inspiring vision in contributing to the development of the World Heritage Convention that led to the revolutionary concept of cultural heritage of "Outstanding Universal Value".
So successful, in fact, that it has been adopted as the disclosure reporting regime by about a dozen significant oil and natural gas producing states, and is being considered for adoption by the Department of Interior as a part of its own pending regulation on hydraulic fracturing and well completions.
The Department of Justice, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Health and Human Services are all working on ways to empower tribal governments to ensure greater safety in their own communities, and I want to particularly commend Attorney General Eric Holder for his efforts on this so far.
MS. ZICHAL: And so -- one of the options that the Department of Interior is exploring is looking at the terms of the lease sales, so that when a company is going out proactively and developing aggressively on their leases, there are additional opportunities we have to extend those lease sales -- so more of a carrot approach.
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