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Donald H. Magnuson

During his time in Congress he served on the Appropriations Committee subcommittee on Department of State, Justice and Judiciary, and the Department of the Interior.

Gilbert N. Haugen

He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior (in the Sixtieth Congress), and on the Committee on Agriculture (in the Sixty-sixth through Seventy-first Congresses).

Juan de Dios Cañedo

He was several times deputy and senator, minister of foreign affairs under Victoria's administration, represented his country as plenipotentiary in Brazil, Peru, and Chile, and was in charge of the foreign office and the department of the interior under Bustamante.

Marine current power

A 2006 report from United States Department of the Interior estimates that capturing just 1/1,000th of the available energy from the Gulf Stream, which has 21,000 times more energy than Niagara Falls in a flow of water that is 50 times the total flow of all the world’s freshwater rivers, would supply Florida with 35% of its electrical needs.

National Register of Historic Places listings in Denton County, Texas

The National Historic Landmark Program is administered by the National Park Service, a branch of the Department of the Interior.

National Wetlands Research Center

1993 - Secretary Bruce Babbitt consolidated research in several bureaus of the Department of the Interior to form the National Biological Survey, an agency designed to foster scientific understanding and technologies.

North American AJ Savage

Both squadrons frequently provided photographic mapping for agencies outside the Navy like the Army Map Service, the Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey and the U.S. Departments of the Interior and Agriculture.

Ralph E. Twitchell

He was prosecuting attorney for Santa Fe County and special counsel for the U.S. Department of the Interior dealing with Native American and water-rights cases.

Shallow water drilling

Following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the U.S Department of the Interior imposed a moratorium on all offshore drilling, both deepwater and shallow water.

Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977

SMCRA also created the Office of Surface Mining, an agency within the Department of the Interior, to promulgate regulations, to fund state regulatory and reclamation efforts, and to ensure consistency among state regulatory programs.

Union Pacific 737

On October 30, 1986 the US Congress passed legislation creating Steamtown National Historic Site as a unit of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior.


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Alex Matthiessen

He was also co-creator and head of the Green Energy Parks initiative, a joint program between the Department of the Interior’s National Park Service and the Department of Energy, which promotes renewable and energy efficient technology throughout the national park system.

Charles Bateson

He worked as a journalist for many Australian papers and also worked for the Department of the Interior during World War II.

Cobell v. Salazar

The Department of the Interior was represented first by Bruce Babbitt, then Gale Norton, Dirk Kempthorne, and finally Ken Salazar.

Jack Abramoff CNMI scandal

In August 2006, Roger Stillwell, formerly an employee of the Department of the Interior, pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge of failing to report gifts received from Abramoff during the period that Abramoff was lobbying the Interior on behalf of the Commonwealth of the Marianas Islands.

Jack Fahy

In 1943 Fahy was about to become chairman of the Territorial Affairs Bureau in the Department of the Interior, Rep. Martin Dies, Jr. placed Fahy on a list of government employees suspected as being Communists.

Julie MacDonald

Julie A. MacDonald (born 1955), former U.S. Department of the Interior official

Midway Atoll

On October 31, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed Executive Order 13022, which transferred the jurisdiction and control of the atoll to the United States Department of the Interior.

National Cooperative Soil Survey

In 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Soil Erosion Service under the Department of the Interior.

Rafael Carmoega

A 1918 graduate of the Cornell University School of Architecture and subsequent director of the Architectural division of Puerto Rico's Department of the Interior.

Resource Ordering Status System

Participating agencies include many state fire suppression organizations such as CAL FIRE, and federal entities such as the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, United States Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, National Information Technology Center, and the United States Forest Service.

Roy A. Gibson

Gibson was employed by a flour milling company, then was hired by the Department of the Interior in Regina in 1908, later serving as Assistant Deputy Minister, and worked for the Department of Mines and Resources from 1936 to 1947, serving as director of the Lands and Forests branch.

William A. J. Sparks

He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior (Forty-fifth Congress), Committee on Military Affairs (Forty-sixth Congress).