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The National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966 provided guidelines and directives for administration and management of all areas in National

federal agency in 2015 In 2012, the DOT awarded $742.5 million in funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to 11 transit projects. The awardees

Services (HHS). The mission of the NIEHS is to "reduce the burden of human illness and disability by understanding how the environment influences the development

of at the site…" File:FSDF in June 2005.jpg The impacted soils were removed from the FSDF by Rocketdyne for the DOE in 1992. A video explaining the 1992

"great artistic value". The enactment of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in 1966 established the National Register and the process for adding

organization with the word "environment" in its title, ESSA was the first such organization chartered to study the global natural environment as whole, bringing

or to the associate attorney general (in the case of the Antitrust, Civil, Civil Rights, Environment & Natural Resources, and Tax Divisions and the Office

"Father of the Department of Agriculture." In 1849, the Patent Office was transferred to the newly created Department of the Interior. In the ensuing years

imprisoned for up to five years in the federal penitentiary in Albany, New York. The result was a dramatic decrease in violence in the South. Akerman gave credit

an element of NOAA. The remainder of the USFWS remained in place in the Department of the Interior in 1970 as the foundation of the USFWS as it is known

Department of Transportation. The FHWA took over the functions of the Bureau of Public Roads the following year. The FHWA's role in the Federal-aid Highway Program

(RCA) of 1959, in the 86th Congress. The bill would have established a Council on Environmental Quality in the Executive Office of the President, declared

period as the third-ranking officer in the department. The position was not renewed, however, and between 1947 and 1958 the ranking officer in the department

regard for need, the environment, and the national defense." The first secretary of transportation was Alan S. Boyd, nominated to the post by Democratic

inaccessible land. The acquisition in Wyoming for 35,670 acres is the agency's largest ever purchase in the state. In 2024 the Department of the Interior has

federal employees. Led by the United States Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division, the Division's litigation reflects the diversity of government

from the time of the meltdown are not yet accounted for. The reactor and support systems were removed in 1981 and the building torn down in 1999. The 1959

among the earliest in the federal government: United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, formed in 1807 Weather Bureau of the United States, formed in 1870

within the Department of Defense), the intelligence elements of the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, and the Marine Corps, the FBI, the Department of the Treasury

representing the U.S. at the United Nations. The department is headquartered in the Harry S Truman Building, a few blocks from the White House, in the Foggy Bottom