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Oklahoma City -- U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland is coming to Oklahoma as she launches a yearlong tour to visit states and communities where government-financed boarding schools housed

People who visited national parks in Utah spent an estimated $1.6 billion in surrounding regions during 2021, according to a new report by the National Park Service.

As the second step in a three-step planning process, the Department of the Interior issued the “Proposed Program” for the National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program (National OCS Program) for the years 2023 to 2028.

The Department of the Interior Friday announced that visitor spending in communities near national parks in 2021 resulted in a $42.5 billion benefit to the nations economy and supported 322,600 mostly local jobs.\u00a0\u00a0

Visitor spending to so-called gateway communities adjacent to national parks reap big economic benefits. The Interior Department reported a $42.5 economic infusion to the economy. Zion National Park, Utah’s most popular park, is part of a new socioeconomic monitoring project.

The Department of the Interior is allocating over $31 million to all 23 Wyoming counties as Payment in Lieu of Taxes funding to maintain public lands.

Interior announced today that over $74.6 million will be distributed in 30 states to improve our understanding of domestic critical mineral resources.

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Continuing the momentum to achieve the Biden-Harris administration’s goal of deploying 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy capacity by 2030, the Department of the Interior today announced the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) will conduct an environmental review of the first proposed wind energy project offshore Maryland.