DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 1849 C Street NW., Washington, DC 20240 Phone, 202–208–3171

SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR BRUCE BABBITT Deputy Secretary JOHN R. GARAMENDI Chief of Staff ANNE H. SHIELDS Deputy Chief of Staff SUSAN K. RIEFF Special Trustee for American Indians PAUL N. HOMAN Director of Congressional Affairs MELANIE BELLER Special Assistants and Counselors to the JOHN J. DUFFY, JAMES H. PIPKIN Secretary Counselor to the Secretary for Policy JOSEPH L. SAX Special Assistant to the Secretary and White ROBERT K. HATTOY House Liaison Director, Office of Communications MICHAEL GAULDIN Director of External Affairs LUCIA A. WYMAN Director of Intergovernmental Affairs and LESLIE M. TURNER Counselor to the Secretary Special Assistant to the Secretary and NANCY K. HAYES Director, Executive Secretariat Director, Office of Regulatory Affairs JULIE FALKNER Special Assistant to the Secretary for Alaska DEBORAH L. WILLIAMS Special Assistant to the Secretary FAITH R. ROESSEL Solicitor JOHN D. LESHY Deputy Solicitor EDWARD B. COHEN Associate Solicitor (Administration) ROBERT S. MORE Associate Solicitor (Conservation and ROBERT L. BAUM Wildlife) Associate Solicitor (Energy and Resources) (VACANCY) Associate Solicitor (General Law) GLYNN D. KEY Associate Solicitor (Indian Affairs) ROBERT T. ANDERSON Associate Solicitor (Surface Mining) KAY HENRY Inspector General WILMA A. LEWIS Deputy Inspector General (VACANCY) Assistant Inspector General (Administration) SHARON D. ELLER Assistant Inspector General (Audits) JUDY R. HARRISON Assistant Inspector General (Investigations) JOHN R. SINCLAIR General Counsel RICHARD N. REBACK Assistant Secretary—Water and Science PATRICIA J. BENEKE Deputy Assistant Secretary MARK SCHAEFER Director, U.S. Geological Survey GORDON P. EATON Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation ELUID L. MARTINEZ Assistant Secretary—Fish and Wildlife and GEORGE T. FRAMPTON, JR. Parks Deputy Assistant Secretary ROBERT P. DAVISON Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service MOLLIE BEATTIE Director, National Biological Service H. RONALD PULLIAM Director, ROGER G. KENNEDY 308 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 309

Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs ADA E. DEER Deputy Assistant Secretary MICHAEL J. ANDERSON Commissioner of Indian Affairs (VACANCY) Deputy Commissioner of Indian Affairs HILDA MANUEL Assistant Secretary—Land and Minerals ROBERT L. ARMSTRONG Management Deputy Assistant Secretary SYLVIA V. BACA Director, Minerals Management Service CYNTHIA L. QUARTERMAN Director, Bureau of Land Management (VACANCY) Director, Office of Surface Mining ROBERT URAM Reclamation and Enforcement Assistant Secretary—Policy, Management, and BONNIE R. COHEN Budget Director, Office of Hearings and Appeals BARRY E. HILL Director, Office of Small and Disadvantaged (VACANCY) Business Utilization Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human (VACANCY) Resources Director, Office for Equal Opportunity E. MELODEE STITH Director, Office of National Service and DOLORES L. CHACON Educational Partnerships Director, Office of Personnel WOODROW W. HOPPER, JR. Director, Ethics Staff GABRIELE J. PAONE Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy BROOKS B. YEAGER Director, Office of Environmental Policy and WILLIE R. TAYLOR Compliance Director, Office of Policy Analysis (VACANCY) Director, Office of Insular Affairs (VACANCY) Director, Office of Managing Risk and L. MICHAEL KAAS Public Safety Director of Planning and Performance JODY Z. KUSEK Management Director of Fiscal Resources ROBERT J. LAMB Director, Office of Acquisition and Property PAUL A. DENETT Management Director, Office of Budget MARY ANN LAWLER Director, Office of Financial Management R. SCHUYLER LESHER Director, Office of Information Resources (VACANCY) Management Director of Operations CLAUDIA P. SCHECHTER Director, Office of Aircraft Services ELMER J. HURD Director, Facilities Transition Project Staff (VACANCY)

The mission of the Department of the Interior is to protect and provide access to our Nation’s natural and cultural heritage and honor our trust responsibilities to tribes. This includes fostering sound use of our land and water resources; assessing and protecting our fish, wildlife, and biological diversity; preserving the environmental and cultural values of our national parks and historical places; and providing for the enjoyment of life through outdoor recreation. The Department assesses our mineral resources and works to ensure that their development is in the best interests of all our people by encouraging stewardship and citizen participation in their care. The Department also has a major responsibility for American Indian reservation communities and for people who live in insular areas under U.S. administration. 310 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL BUREAU OF RECLAMATION WATER AND SCIENCE ASSISTANT SECRETARY SURVEY U.S. GEOLOGICAL SOLICITOR TRUSTEE FOR AMERICAN INDIANS OFFICE OF SPECIAL INSPECTOR GENERAL SERVICE MINERALS MANAGEMENT OFFICE OF RECLAMATION MANAGEMENT SURFACE MINING AND ENFORCEMENT LAND AND MINERALS ASSISTANT SECRETARY LAND BUREAU OF MANAGEMENT SECRETARY DEPUTY SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS OFFICE OF SMALL INDIAN AFFAIRS AND DISADVANTAGED ASSISTANT SECRETARY BUSINESS UTILIZATION BUDGET AND EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT CONGRESSIONAL AND LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS COMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANT SECRETARY ÐÐ ÐÐ ÐÐ CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER POLICY, MANAGEMENT, AND SERVICE U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE AND APPEALS SERVICE OFFICE OF HEARINGS AND PARKS NATIONAL BIOLOGICAL FISH AND WILDLIFE ASSISTANT SECRETARY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 311

The Department of the Interior was assist the development of economically created by act of March 3, 1849 (43 and environmentally sound resource U.S.C. 1451), which transferred to it the activities. The Assistant Secretary , the Office of oversees the programs of the , the Pension Office, and Reclamation and the United States the Patent Office. It was reorganized by Geological Survey. Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1950, as The Office of the Assistant Secretary amended (5 U.S.C. app.). provides advice on Earth science matters Over the years, other functions have to the Secretary and represents the been added and removed, so that its role Department of the Interior in interagency has changed from that of general efforts on a range of scientific issues. housekeeper for the Federal Government Land and Minerals Management The to that of custodian of the Nation’s Assistant Secretary (Land and Minerals natural resources. Management) discharges the duties of the Secretary with the authority and Office of the Secretary direct responsibility for programs Secretary The Secretary of the Interior associated with public land reports directly to the President and is management; operations management responsible for the direction and and leasing for minerals on public lands, supervision of all operations and including the Outer Continental Shelf to activities of the Department. The Office the outer limits of the United States of the Secretary includes the offices of economic jurisdiction; minerals Deputy Secretary, the Assistant operations management on Indian lands; Secretaries, the Special Trustee for surface mining reclamation and American Indians, the Solicitor, and the enforcement functions; and management Inspector General. Some areas where of revenues from Federal and Indian public purposes are broadly applied mineral leases. include: The Assistant Secretary exercises Fish and Wildlife and Parks The Secretarial direction and supervision Assistant Secretary (Fish and Wildlife and over the Bureau of Land Management, Parks) discharges the duties of the the Minerals Management Service, and Secretary with the authority and direct the Office of Surface Mining responsibility for programs associated Reclamation and Enforcement. with conservation in the use of natural Indian Affairs The Assistant Secretary and cultural resources, and the (Indian Affairs) discharges the authority enhancement and protection of fish, and responsibility of the Secretary for wildlife, vegetation, and habitat. The activities pertaining to Indians and Assistant Secretary represents the Indian affairs. The Assistant Secretary is Department in the coordination of responsible for exercising Secretarial marine environmental quality and direction and supervision over the biological resources programs with other Bureau of Indian Affairs by: —providing the Secretary with Federal agencies. The Assistant Secretary detailed and objective advice on matters also exercises Secretarial direction and involving Indians and Indian affairs; supervision over the United States Fish —identifying and acting on issues and Wildlife Service, the National affecting Indian policy and programs; Biological Service, and the National Park —establishing policy on Indian affairs; Service. —maintaining liaison and Water and Science The Assistant coordination between the Department of Secretary (Water and Science) discharges the Interior and other Federal agencies the duties of the Secretary with the that provide services or funding to authority and direct responsibility to Indians; carry out the statutory mandate to —representing the Department in manage and direct programs that support transactions with Congress; the development and implementation of —monitoring and evaluating ongoing water, mineral, and science policies and activities related to Indian affairs; and 312 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL

—undertaking or providing leadership for legal matters involving the programs in special assignments and projects for of the Assistant Secretary (Water and the Secretary. Science), the Assistant Secretary (Land Policy, Management, and Budget The and Minerals Management), the Bureau Assistant Secretary (Policy, Management, of Land Management, the United States and Budget) discharges the authority of Bureau of Mines, the United States the Secretary for all phases of Geological Survey, the Bureau of management and administrative Reclamation, and the Minerals activities, serves as the principal policy Management Service. The Division of adviser to the Secretary, and is the Indian Affairs is responsible for legal Department’s Chief Financial Officer. matters involving the programs of the For further information, contact the Office of the Assistant Secretary (Indian Affairs) and Assistant Secretary (Policy, Management, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Budget. Internet, http://www.usgs.gov/doi/policy- Division of Surface Mining provides management-budget.html legal advice to the Assistant Secretary (Land and Minerals Management) on Office of the Solicitor surface mining matters and to the Office The Office of the Solicitor performs all of of Surface Mining Reclamation and the legal work of the Department with Enforcement. The Division of General the exception of that performed by the Law is responsible for general Office of Hearings and Appeals, the administrative law and legal matters Office of Congressional and Legislative involving programs under the jurisdiction Affairs, and the Office of Inspector of the Office of the Secretary, the General. The Solicitor is the principal Assistant Secretary (Policy, Management, legal adviser to the Secretary and the and Budget), and the Office for Equal chief law officer of the Department. Opportunity. Administrative and support The headquarters office, located in services for the Office of the Solicitor are Washington, DC, consists of six provided by the Division of divisions. The Division of Conservation Administration. and Wildlife is responsible for legal The field organization of the Office is matters involving the programs of the divided into seven regions, each headed Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife by a Regional Solicitor. and Parks, the National Park Service, the For further information, contact the Associate National Biological Service, and the U.S. Solicitor for Administration, Office of the Solicitor, Fish and Wildlife Service. The Division Department of the Interior, Washington, DC 20240. of Energy and Resources is responsible Phone, 202–208–6115. Regional OfficesÐOffice of the Solicitor

Region Address Telephone

ALASKAÐAlaska Suite 300, 4230 University Dr., Anchorage, 907±271±4131 AK 99508±4626 NORTHEASTÐConnecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Suite 612, 1 Gateway Ctr., Newton Corner, 617±527±3400 Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, MA 02158±2802 New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Ver- mont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin PACIFIC NORTHWESTÐIdaho, Montana, Oregon, Wash- Suite 607, 500 NE. Multnomah St., Portland, 503±231±2125 ington OR 97232 PACIFIC SOUTHWESTÐArizona, California, Hawaii, Ne- Rm. E±2753, 2800 Cottage Way, Sac- 916±979±2141 vada, Pacific Territories, Utah ramento, CA 95825±1890 ROCKY MOUNTAINÐColorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Rm. 151, 755 Parfet St., Lakewood, CO 303±231±5353 Nebraska, Wyoming 80215 SOUTHEASTÐAlabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Ken- Suite 304, 75 Spring St. SW., Atlanta, GA 404±331±5504 tucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, 30303 South Carolina, Tennessee, Virgin Islands SOUTHWESTÐNavajo Reservation, New Mexico, Okla- Suite 200, 2400 Louisiana Blvd. NE., Albu- 505±883±6700 homa, Texas querque, NM 87110±4316 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 313

Office of Special Trustee for investigations, relations with other American Indians Federal, State, and local government agencies, and other selected activities The Office of Special Trustee for designed to promote economy and American Indians oversees Indian trust efficiency and to prevent and detect asset reform efforts departmentwide to fraud, waste, and abuse. ensure the establishment of policies, In the insular areas of Guam, procedures, systems, and practices to American Samoa, the Virgin Islands, and allow the Secretary to effectively the Commonwealth of the Northern discharge his trust responsibilities. The Mariana Islands, the Office performs the Special Trustee has authority over and functions of government comptroller responsibility for trust monies of Indian through audits of revenues, receipts, tribes and individual Indians. expenditures, and property pursuant to For further information, contact the Office of the the Insular Areas Act of 1982 (48 U.S.C. Special Trustee, Department of the Interior, 1422). Additional audit responsibilities Washington, DC 20240. Phone, 202–208–4866. are performed by the Inspector General in the Federated States of Micronesia, Office of Inspector General the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and The Office of Inspector General provides the Republic of Palau pursuant to the policy direction for and conducts, Compact of Free Association Act of 1985 supervises, and coordinates all audits, (Public Law 99–239). Regional OfficesÐOffice of Inspector General (A: Audits; I: Investigations)

Region/Headquarters Address Telephone

EASTERN: Arlington, VA (A) ...... Suite 425, 1550 Wilson Blvd., 22209 ...... 703±235±9231 Arlington, VA (I) ...... Suite 410, 1550 Wilson Blvd., 22209 ...... 703±235±9221 CENTRAL: Lakewood, CO (A) ...... Suite 510, 134 Union Blvd., 80228 ...... 303±236±9243 WESTERN: Sacramento, CA (A) ...... Rm. W2400, 2800 Cottage Way, 95825 ...... 916±979±2700 Lakewood, CO (I) ...... Suite 540, 134 Union Blvd., 80228 ...... 303±236±8296 CARIBBEAN: St. Thomas, VI (A) ...... Rm. 207, Federal Bldg., Veterans Dr., 00802 ...... 809±774±8300 NORTH PACIFIC: Agana, GU (A) ...... Suite 807, 238 Archbishop F.C. Flores St., 96910 ...... 700±550±7279

For further information, contact the Office of Inspector General, Department of the Interior, Washington, DC 20240. Phone, 202–208–4599. Internet, http://www.access.gpo.gov/doi/.

Office of Hearings and Appeals reclamation; claims under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act; and The Office of Hearings and Appeals is a unit of the Office of the Secretary and is enforcement of the importation and headed by a Director, who reports transportation of rare and endangered administratively to the Assistant Secretary species. The Director of the Office of (Policy, Management, and Budget). Hearings and Appeals may assign The Office of Hearings and Appeals is administrative law judges or other responsible for departmental quasi- officials from the Office of Hearings and judicial and related functions. Appeals for the purpose of holding Administrative law judges and three rulemaking hearings and may also assign formal boards of appeal render decisions administrative law judges or establish ad in cases pertaining to contract disputes; hoc boards of appeal to meet special Indian probate and administrative requirements of disputes not falling appeals; public and acquired lands and under one of the previously listed their resources; submerged offshore categories. Board decisions are final for lands of the Outer Continental Shelf; surface coal mining control and the Department. 314 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL

The Office includes the headquarters Republic of Palau. The mission of the organization and eight field offices for Office is to build mutually beneficial administrative law judges. partnerships and provide financial and For further information, contact the Office of technical assistance to help insular Hearings and Appeals, Department of the Interior, governments attain locally determined 4015 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22203. economic, social, and political goals. Phone, 703–235–3810. The insular areas now have popularly Office of Insular Affairs elected executive and legislative branches of government and administer The Office of Insular Affairs carries out their own affairs. The Office of Insular the Department’s responsibility to help Affairs provides financial and technical coordinate Federal policy for the assistance to the insular governments territories of American Samoa, Guam, and analyzes economic and political the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the issues as they relate to the unique Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Federal relationship with the islands. Islands, and oversee Federal programs For further information, contact the Office of and funds in the freely associated states Insular Affairs, Department of the Interior, of the Federal States of Micronesia, the Washington, DC 20240. Phone, 202-208-6816. Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Internet, http://www.usgs.gov/doi/oia/oia.html.

Bureaus United States Fish and Wildlife Service: the Bureau of Commercial Service Fisheries and the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife. [For the United States Fish and Wildlife Service statement of organization, see the Code of Federal In 1970, under Reorganization Plans 3 Regulations, Title 50, Subchapter A, Part 2] and 4 (5 U.S.C. app.), the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries was transferred to The United States Fish and Wildlife the Department of Commerce. The Service’s national responsibility in the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, service of fish, wildlife, and people which remained in Interior, was spans more than 120 years to the renamed by an act of Congress in April establishment in 1871 of a predecessor agency, the Bureau of Fisheries. First 1974 (16 U.S.C. 742b) as the United created as an independent agency, the States Fish and Wildlife Service. Bureau of Fisheries was later placed in The Service is composed of a the Department of Commerce. A second headquarters office in Washington, DC, predecessor agency, the Bureau of seven regional offices, and a variety of Biological Survey, was established in field units and installations. These 1885 in the Department of Agriculture. include more than 500 national wildlife In 1939 the two Bureaus and their refuges and 166 waterfowl production functions were transferred to the areas totaling more than 92 million Department of the Interior. They were acres; 78 national fish hatcheries; and a consolidated into one agency and nationwide network of wildlife law redesignated the Fish and Wildlife enforcement agents. Service in 1940 by Reorganization Plan The United States Fish and Wildlife III (5 U.S.C. app.). Service is responsible for migratory birds, Further reorganization came in 1956 endangered species, certain marine when the Fish and Wildlife Act (16 mammals, and inland sport fisheries. Its U.S.C. 742a) created the United States mission is to conserve, protect, and Fish and Wildlife Service and provided enhance fish and wildlife and their for it to replace and succeed the former habitats for the continuing benefit of the Fish and Wildlife Service. The Act American people. Within this established two Bureaus within the new framework, the Service strives to foster DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 315 an environmental stewardship ethic law enforcement, protection of certain based on ecological principles and marine mammals, and technical scientific knowledge of wildlife; works assistance; with the States to improve the —coastal anadromous fish: hatchery conservation and management of the production and stocking; Nation’s fish and wildlife resources; and —Great Lakes fisheries: hatchery administers a national program providing production of lake trout and fishery opportunities to the American public to management in cooperation with understand, appreciate, and wisely use Canada and the States; and these resources. —other inland fisheries: hatchery In the area of resource management, production and stocking of Indian lands, the Service provides leadership for the and technical assistance. protection and improvement of land and water environments (habitat The Service provides national and preservation), which directly benefits the international leadership in identifying, living natural resources and adds quality protecting, and restoring endangered to human life. Activities include: species of fish, wildlife, and plants. This —surveillance of pesticides, heavy program includes: metals, and other contaminants; —developing the Federal Endangered —studies of fish and wildlife and Threatened Species List, conducting populations; status surveys, preparing recovery plans, —ecological studies; and coordinating efforts nationally and —environmental impact assessment, internationally; including hydroelectric dams, nuclear —operating national wildlife refuges; power sites, stream channelization, and —law enforcement; dredge-and-fill permits; and —foreign importation enforcement; —environmental impact statement and review. The Service is responsible for —consultation with foreign countries. improving and maintaining fish and Public use and information programs wildlife resources by proper include preparing leaflets and brochures; management of wildlife and habitat. It operating environmental study areas on also helps fulfill the public demand for Service lands for use by school groups recreational fishing while maintaining and teachers; operating visitor centers, the Nation’s fisheries at a level and in a self-guided nature trails, observation condition that will ensure their towers, and display ponds; and continued survival. Specific wildlife and providing recreational activities such as fishery resources programs include: hunting, fishing, and wildlife —migratory birds: wildlife refuge photography. management for production, migration, The Service’s Federal aid programs and wintering, law enforcement, game, apportion funds generated by excise bird population, production, and harvest taxes on sporting arms and equipment to surveys; the States and territories for projects —mammals and nonmigratory birds: designed to conserve and enhance the refuge management of resident species, Nation’s fish and wildlife resources. Regional OfficesÐUnited States Fish and Wildlife Service

Region Address Telephone

ALBUQUERQUEÐArizona, New Mexico, , Texas P.O. Box 1306, Albuquerque, NM 87103 505±248±6900 ANCHORAGEÐAlaska 1011 E. Tudor Rd., Anchorage, AK 99503 907±786±3542 ATLANTAÐAlabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Ken- 1875 Century Blvd., Atlanta, GA 30345 404±679±4000 tucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virgin Islands HADLEYÐConnecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Mas- 300 Westgate Ctr. Dr., Hadley, MA 01035± 413±253±8200 sachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, 9589 Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, West Vir- ginia 316 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL

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Region Address Telephone

DENVERÐColorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North P.O. Box 25486, Denver, CO 80225 303±236±7920 Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming PORTLANDÐCalifornia, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, 911 NE. 11th Ave., Portland, OR 97232± 503±231±6118 Washington, Pacific Islands 4181 TWIN CITIESÐIllinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Federal Bldg., Fort Snelling, Twin Cities, MN 612±725±3500 Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin 55111

For further information, contact the Office of Public Affairs, Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, Washington, DC 20240. Phone, 202–208–5634. Internet, http://www.fws.gov/.

National Park Service Activities The National Park Service The National Park Service was develops and implements park established in the Department of the management plans and staffs the areas Interior on August 25, 1916 (16 U.S.C. under its administration. It relates the 1). natural values and historical significance The National Park Service is dedicated of these areas to the public through to conserving unimpaired the natural talks, tours, films, exhibits, publications, and cultural resources and values of the and other interpretive media. It operates National Park System for the enjoyment, campgrounds and other visitor facilities education, and inspiration of this and and provides—usually through future generations. The Service is also concessions—lodging, food, and responsible for managing a great variety transportation services in many areas. of national and international programs The National Park Service also designed to help extend the benefits of administers the following programs: the natural and cultural resource State portion of the Land and Water conservation and outdoor recreation Conservation Fund, Nationwide Outdoor throughout this country and the world. Recreation coordination and information The National Park Service has a and State comprehensive outdoor Service Center in Denver that provides recreation planning, planning and planning, architectural, engineering, and technical assistance for the National other professional services. There are Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and the more than 365 units in the National Park National Trails System, natural area System, including national parks and programs, the National Register of monuments; scenic parkways, preserves, Historic Places, national historic trails, riverways, seashores, lakeshores, landmarks, historic preservation, and recreation areas; and historic sites technical preservation services, Historic associated with important movements, American Buildings Survey, Historic events, and personalities of the American American Engineering Record, and past. interagency archeological services. Field Area OfficesÐNational Park Service

Field Area Address Telephone

ALASKAÐAlaska Rm. 107, 2525 Gambell St., Anchorage, AK 907±257±2690 99503±2892 INTERMOUNTAINÐArizona, Colorado, Montana, New P.O. Box 25287, 12795 W. Alameda Pkwy., 303±969±2500 Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Wyoming Denver, CO 80225±0287 MIDWESTÐArkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, 1709 Jackson St., Omaha, NE 68102 402±221±3431 Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin NATIONAL CAPITALÐWashington, DC, and nearby Mary- 1100 Ohio Dr. SW., Washington, DC 20242 202±619±7005 land, Virginia, and West Virginia NORTHEASTÐConnecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Rm. 306, U.S. Customs House, 200 Chest- 215±597±7013 Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, nut St., Philadelphia, PA 19106 Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, West Vir- ginia DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 317

Field Area OfficesÐNational Park Service—Continued

Field Area Address Telephone

PACIFIC WESTÐCalifornia, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Or- Suite 600, 600 Harrison St., San Francisco, 415±744±3876 egon, Washington CA 94107±1372 SOUTHEASTÐAlabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Lou- 75 Spring St. SW., Atlanta, GA 30303 404±331±5185 isiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Ten- nessee

For further information, contact the Chief, Office of Public Affairs, National Park Service, Department of the Interior, P.O. Box 37127, Washington, DC 20013–7127. Phone, 202–208–6843. Internet, http:// www.nps.gov/.

National Biological Service understanding of biological systems and The National Biological Service (NBS) their benefits to society. Through these became operational on November 11, activities, NBS provides essential 1993, through the transfer of certain scientific support, technical assistance, functions of the following Interior and information required for sound bureaus: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, management and policy decisions National Park Service, Bureau of Land regarding the Nation’s biological Management, Minerals Management resources. It establishes partnerships with Service, Office of Surface Mining other Federal, State, and local agencies; Reclamation and Enforcement, U.S. with museums and universities; and with Geological Survey, and Bureau of private organizations in order to bring Reclamation. coherence to largely uncoordinated The mission of NBS is to work with efforts and to further fulfill its mission. others to provide the scientific understanding and technologies needed The Service consists of a headquarters to support the sound management and office, located in Washington, DC; 2 conservation of our Nation’s biological regions, located in Seattle, WA and resources. To accomplish this mission, Leetown, WV; 16 science centers; 81 NBS undertakes research, inventory and field stations; and 54 cooperative monitoring, information sharing, and research units, all located at colleges technology transfer activities to foster an and universities.

For further information, contact the Public Affairs Office, National Biological Service, Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street NW, Washington, DC 20240. Phone, 202–482–3048. Internet, http://www.nbs.gov/ .

United States Geological Survey Provision was made in 1894 for The United States Geological Survey gauging the streams and determining the (USGS) was established by act of March water supply of the United States. 3, 1879 (43 U.S.C. 31), which provided Authorizations for publication, sale, and for ‘‘the classification of the public lands distribution of material prepared by and the examination of the geological USGS are contained in several statutes structure, mineral resources, and (43 U.S.C. 41–45; 44 U.S.C. 1318– products of the national domain.’’ The 1320). act of September 5, 1962 (43 U.S.C. The Geological Survey is also 31(b)), expanded this authorization to authorized to maintain an archive of include such examinations outside the land-remote sensing data for historical, national domain. Topographic mapping scientific, and technical purposes, and chemical and physical research including long-term global were recognized as an essential part of environmental monitoring; establish a the investigations and studies authorized National Geologic Mapping Program; by act of March 3, 1879, and specific expedite the production of a geologic- provision was made for them through map data base; establish and support the subsequent legislation. Federal Geographic Data Committee, 318 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL which is chaired by the Secretary of the States choosing not to assume primary Interior; and serve as the designated lead responsibility. agency for the Federal Water Information The Office’s headquarters are in Coordination Program. Washington, DC. In addition, regional The Geological Survey’s primary coordinating centers (located in responsibilities are: investigating and Pittsburgh, PA; Alton, IL; and Denver, assessing the Nation’s land, water, CO) provide technical support to the energy, and mineral resources; States and to OSM’s 12 field offices and conducting research on global change; 7 area offices. The field offices interact and investigating natural hazards such as with State, tribal and Federal agencies, earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, assisting the States in implementing their floods, and droughts. To attain these regulatory and reclamation programs. objectives, USGS prepares maps and The regional coordinating centers also digital and cartographic data; collects review mine plans and permit and interprets data on energy and applications on Federal lands. mineral resources; conducts nationwide Activities The Office establishes assessments of the quality, quantity, and national policy for the surface mining use of the Nation’s water resources; control and reclamation program performs fundamental and applied provided for in the surface mining law, research in the sciences and techniques reviews and approves amendments to involved; and publishes and previously approved State programs, and disseminates the results of its reviews and recommends approval of investigations in thousands of new maps new State program submissions. Other and reports each year. activities include: —managing the collection, For further information, contact the U.S. Geological disbursement, and accounting for Survey, Department of the Interior, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA 20192. Phone, 703–648– abandoned mine land reclamation fees; 4000. Fax-on-demand, 703–648–4888. Internet, —administering civil penalties http:/www.usgs.gov/. programs; —establishing technical standards and Office of Surface Mining regulatory policy for reclamation and Reclamation and Enforcement enforcement efforts; —providing guidance for The Office of Surface Mining environmental considerations, research, Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) training, and technology transfer for was established in the Department of the State, tribal, and Federal regulatory and Interior by the Surface Mining Control abandoned mine land reclamation and Reclamation Act of 1977 (30 U.S.C. programs; and 1211). —monitoring and evaluating State and The Office’s primary goal is to assist tribal regulatory programs, cooperative States in operating a nationwide program agreements, and abandoned mine land that protects society and the reclamation programs. environment from the adverse effects of coal mining, while ensuring that surface For further information, contact the Office of Communications, Office of Surface Mining coal mining can be done without Reclamation and Enforcement, Department of the permanent damage to land and water Interior, Washington, DC 20240. Phone, 202–208– resources. With most coal-mining States 2719. TDD, 202–208–2737. Internet, http:// responsible for regulating coal mining www.osmre.gov/. and reclamation activities within their borders, OSM’s main objectives are to Bureau of Indian Affairs oversee State mining regulatory and The Bureau of Indian Affairs was created abandoned mine reclamation programs, as part of the War Department in 1824 assist States in meeting the objectives of and transferred to the Department of the the surface mining law, and regulate Interior when the latter was established mining and reclamation activities on in 1849. The Snyder Act of 1921 (25 Federal and Indian lands, and in those U.S.C. 13) provided substantive law for DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 319 appropriations covering the conduct of and Alaska Native people, full activities by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. development of their human and natural The scope and character of the resource potential; to mobilize all public authorizations contained in this act were and private aids to the advancement of broadened by the Indian Reorganization Indian and Alaska Native people for use Act of 1934 (25 U.S.C. 461 et seq.), the by them; and to promote self- Indian Self-Determination and Education determination by utilizing the skill and Assistance Act of 1975, as amended (25 capabilities of Indian and Alaska Native U.S.C. 450), title XI of the Education people in the direction and management Amendments of 1978 (20 U.S.C. 2701 of programs for their benefit. note), and the Hawkins-Stafford Elementary and Secondary School In carrying out these objectives, the Improvement Amendments of 1988 (20 Bureau works with Indian and Alaska U.S.C. 2701). Native people, tribal governments, The principal objectives of the Bureau Native American organizations, other are to encourage and assist Indian and Federal agencies, State and local Alaska Native people to manage their governments, and other interested groups own affairs under the trust relationship to in the development and implementation the Federal Government; to facilitate, of effective programs for their with maximum involvement of Indian advancement. Area OfficesÐBureau of Indian Affairs

Area Address Telephone

Aberdeen, SD ...... 115 4th Ave. SE., 57401±4382 ...... 605±226±7343 Albuquerque, NM ...... P.O. Box 26567, 615 1st St. NW., 87125±6567 ...... 505±766±3170 Anadarko, OK ...... P.O. Box 368, WCD Office Complex, Hwy. 8, 75003 ...... 405±247±6673 Arlington, VA ...... Suite 260, 3701 N. Fairfax Dr., 22203 ...... 703±235±2571 Billings, MT ...... 316 N. 26th St., 59101±1397 ...... 406±657±6315 Gallup, NM P.O. Box 1060, 87305 ...... 505±863±8314 Juneau, AK ...... Suite 5, 9109 Mendenhall Rd., 99802±5520 ...... 907±586±7177 Minneapolis, MN ...... 331 S. 2d Ave., 55401±2241 ...... 612±349±3631 Muskogee, OK ...... Old Federal Bldg., 5th and W. Okmulgee, 74401±4898 ...... 918±687±2296 Phoenix, AZ ...... P.O. Box 10, 1 N. 1st St., 85001±0010 ...... 602±379±6600 Portland, OR ...... 911 NE. 11th Ave., 97232±4169 ...... 503±231±6702 Sacramento, CA ...... 2800 Cottage Way, 95825±1884 ...... 916±484±4682 Window Rock, AZ ...... P.O. Box M, WR±1, BIA Bldg., Window Rock Blvd., 86515±0714 ...... 602±871±5151

For further information, contact the Public Affairs Office, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior, Washington, DC 20240. Phone, 202–208–3710. Internet, http://www.usgs.gov/doi/bureau-indian- affairs.html.

Minerals Management Service Indian lands to the Bureau of Land Management. The Minerals Management Service was The Service assesses the nature, established on January 19, 1982, by extent, recoverability, and value of Secretarial Order 3071, under the leasable minerals on the Outer authority provided by section 2 of Continental Shelf. It ensures the orderly Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1950 (5 and timely inventory and development, U.S.C. app.), and further amended on as well as the efficient recovery, of May 10 and May 26, 1982. mineral resources; encourages utilization Secretarial Order 3087, dated of the best available and safest December 3, 1982, and amendment 1, technology; provides for fair, full, and dated February 7, 1983, provided for the accurate returns to the Federal Treasury transfer of royalty and mineral revenue for produced commodities; and management functions, including safeguards against fraud, waste, and collection and distribution, to the abuse. Minerals Management Service and Offshore Minerals Management The transferred all onshore minerals Service is responsible for resource management functions on Federal and evaluation, environmental review, 320 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL leasing activities (including public liaison assessments, and other revenues due the and planning functions), lease Federal Government and Indian lessors management, and inspection and as monies or royalties-in-kind from the enforcement programs for Outer extraction of mineral resources from Continental Shelf lands. Federal and Indian lands onshore and Five-year oil and gas leasing programs from the leasing and extraction of are developed for leasing on the Outer mineral resources on the Outer Continental Shelf in consultation with Continental Shelf. the Congress, the 23 coastal States, local The revenues generated by minerals governments, environmental groups, leasing are one of the largest nontax industry, and the public. The Service conducts extensive sources of income to the Federal environmental studies and consultations Government. As specified by law, these with State officials prior to issuing leases. revenues are distributed to the States, to Once leases have been issued, the general fund of the Treasury, and to inspectors conduct frequent inspections Indian tribes and allottees. of offshore operations, and The basic organization of the Service environmental studies personnel collect consists of a headquarters in more data to ensure that marine Washington, DC, with program environments are kept free of pollutants. components located in Herndon, VA; the Royalty Management The Service is Royalty Management Program, responsible for the collection and headquartered in Lakewood, CO; three distribution of all royalty payments, Outer Continental Shelf regional offices; rentals, bonus payments, fines, penalties, and two administrative service centers. Field OfficesÐMinerals Management Service

Office Address Telephone

ROYALTY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM .... P.O. Box 25165, Denver, CO 80225±0165 ...... 303±231±3058 OCS Regional Offices ALASKA REGION ...... Rm. 308, 949 E. 36th Ave., Anchorage, AK 99508±4302 ...... 907±271±6010 GULF OF MEXICO REGION ...... 1201 Elmwood Park Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70123±2394 ...... 504±736±2589 PACIFIC REGION ...... 770 Paseo Camarillo, Camarillo, CA 93010±6064 ...... 805±389±7502 Administrative Service Centers WESTERN SERVICE CENTER ...... P.O. Box 25165, Denver, CO 80225±0165 ...... 303±275±7300 SOUTHERN SERVICE CENTER ...... 1201 Elmwood Park Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70123±2394 ...... 504±736±2616

For further information, contact the Office of Communications and Governmental Affairs, Room 4260, (MS 4013), 1849 C Street NW., Washington, DC 20240–7000. Phone, 202–208–3985. Internet, http:// www.mms.gov/.

Bureau of Land Management Washington, DC; five national level support and service centers (Fire Center, The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Boise, ID; National Training Center, was established July 16, 1946, by the Phoenix, AZ; National Applied Resource consolidation of the General Land Office Sciences Center, National Human (created in 1812) and the Grazing Resources Management Center, and Service (formed in 1934). National Business Center, Denver, CO); The Federal Land Policy and and a field organization of State, district, Management Act of 1976 (90 Stat. 2743) and resource area offices. The Bureau repealed and replaced many obsolete or also utilizes a system of advisory overlapping statutes. It provides a basic councils to assist in the development of mission statement for the Bureau and management plans and policies. establishes policy guidelines and criteria The Bureau is responsible for the total for the management of public lands and management of more than 270 million resources administered by the Bureau. acres of public lands. These lands are The Bureau’s basic organization located primarily in the West and consists of a headquarters in Alaska; however, small scattered parcels DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 321 are located in other States. In addition to and manage wild horses and burros; minerals management responsibilities on and, under certain conditions, makes the public lands, BLM is also responsible land available for sale to individuals, for subsurface resource management of organizations, local governments, and an additional 300 million acres where other Federal agencies when such mineral rights are owned by the Federal transfer is in the public interest. Lands Government. may be leased to State and local Resources managed by the Bureau government agencies and to nonprofit include timber, solid minerals, oil and organizations for certain purposes. gas, geothermal energy, wildlife habitat, The Bureau oversees and manages the endangered plant and animal species, development of energy and mineral rangeland vegetation, recreation and leases and ensures compliance with cultural values, wild and scenic rivers, applicable regulations governing the designated conservation and wilderness extraction of these resources. areas, and open space. Bureau programs provide for the protection (including fire The Bureau has responsibility to issue suppression), orderly development, and rights-of-way, in certain instances, for use of the public lands and resources crossing Federal lands under other under principles of multiple use and agencies’ jurisdiction. It also has general sustained yield. Land use plans are enforcement authority. developed with public involvement to The Bureau is responsible for the provide orderly use and development survey of Federal lands and establishes while maintaining and enhancing the and maintains public land records and quality of the environment. The Bureau records of mining claims. It administers a also manages watersheds to protect soil program of payments in lieu of taxes and enhance water quality; develops based on the amount of federally owned recreational opportunities on public lands in counties and other units of local lands; administers programs to protect government. Field OfficesÐBureau of Land Management

State Office Address Telephone

ALASKAÐAlaska ...... No. 13, 222 W. 7th Ave., Anchorage, AK 99513±7599 ...... 907±271±5076 ARIZONAÐArizona ...... P.O. Box 16563, 3707 N. 7th St., Phoenix, AZ 85011 ...... 602±650±0500 CALIFORNIAÐCalifornia ...... Rm. E±2841, 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, CA 95825 916±979±2845 COLORADOÐColorado ...... 2850 Youngfield St., Lakewood, CO 80215±7076 ...... 303±239±3700 EASTERN STATESÐAll States bordering on 7450 Boston Blvd., Springfield, VA 22153 ...... 703±440±1700 and east of the Mississippi River. IDAHOÐIdaho ...... 3380 Americana Ter., Boise, ID 83706 ...... 208±384±3001 MONTANAÐMontana, North Dakota, South P.O. Box 36800, 222 N. 32d St., Billings, MT 59107±6800 406±255±2904 Dakota. NEVADAÐNevada ...... P.O. Box 12000, 850 Harvard Way, Reno, NV 89520±0006 702±785±6590 NEW MEXICOÐKansas, New Mexico, Okla- P.O. Box 27115, 1474 Rodeo Rd., Santa Fe, NM 87502± 505±438±7501 homa, Texas. 0115. OREGONÐOregon, Washington ...... P.O. Box 2965, 1515 SW. 5th Ave, Portland, OR 97208± 503±952±6024 2965. UTAHÐUtah ...... P.O. Box 45155, 324 S. State St., Salt Lake City, UT 801±539±4010 84145±1550. WYOMINGÐNebraska, Wyoming ...... P.O. Box 1828, 2515 Warren Ave., Cheyenne, WY 82003 307±775±6001 Service and Support Offices NATIONAL INTERAGENCY FIRE CENTER 3833 South Development Ave., Boise, ID 83705±5354 ...... 208±387±5446 NATIONAL TRAINING CENTER ...... 9828 N. 31st Ave., .Phonenix, AZ 85051±2517 ...... 602±906±5500 NATIONAL BUSINESS CENTER ...... Denver Federal Ctr., Bldg. 50, BC±600, P.O. Box 25047, 303±236±6620 Denver, CO 80225±0047. NATIONAL HUMAN RESOURCES MAN- Denver Federal Ctr., Bldg. 50, HR±200, P.O. Box 25047, 303±236±6503 AGEMENT CENTER. Denver, CO 80225±0047. NATIONAL APPLIED RESOURCE Denver Federal Ctr., Bldg. 50, RS±100, P.O. Box 25047, 303±236±8857 SCIENCES CENTER. Denver, CO 80225±0047.

For further information, contact the Office of Public Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior, Washington, DC 20240. Phone, 202–208–3435. Internet, http://www.blm.gov/. 322 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL

Bureau of Reclamation improve the management of existing water resources; The mission of the Bureau of Reclamation is to manage, develop, and —designs and constructs water protect, for the public welfare, water and resources projects, as authorized by the related resources in an environmentally Congress; and economically sound manner. —helps to develop and supports or The Reclamation Act of 1902 (43 enhances recreational uses at U.S.C. 371 et seq.) authorized the Reclamation projects; Secretary of the Interior to administer a —conducts research and encourages reclamation program that would provide technology transfer to improve resource the arid and semiarid lands of the 17 management, development, and contiguous Western States a secure, protection; year-round water supply for irrigation. —ensures that the lands it manages To perform the mission, the Reclamation are free from hazardous and toxic waste Service was created within the United and assists other Federal and State States Geological Survey. In 1907 the agencies in protecting and restoring Reclamation Service was separated from surface water and ground water the Survey, and in 1923 was renamed resources from hazardous waste the Bureau of Reclamation. contamination; The Reclamation program has helped —operates and maintains its facilities to settle and develop the West by to ensure reliability, safety, and providing for sustained economic economic operation to protect the growth, an improved environment, and public, property, and the Nation’s an enhanced quality of life through the investment in the facilities, and to development of a water storage and preserve and enhance environmental delivery infrastructure, which provides resources; and safe and dependable water supplies and —provides engineering and technical hydroelectric power for agricultural, support to Federal and State agencies, to municipal, and industrial users; protects Native American tribes, and to other and improves water quality; provides nations to help accomplish national, recreational and fish and wildlife regional, and international resource benefits; enhances river regulations; and management, development, and helps control damaging floods. protection objectives. With this infrastructure largely in Through contracts with project place, the Reclamation program is now beneficiaries, the Bureau arranges focusing greater emphasis on resource repayment to the Federal Treasury for management and protection than on construction, operation, and development. Following a balanced maintenance costs. Approximately 80 approach to the stewardship of the percent of all direct project costs are West’s water and related land and repaid to the Government. energy resources, the Bureau: Reclamation project facilities in —works in partnership with others to operation include 355 storage reservoirs, develop water conservation plans, 69,400 miles of canals and other water provide for the efficient and effective use conveyances and distribution facilities, of water and related resources, and and 52 hydroelectric powerplants. Major OfficesÐBureau of Reclamation

Office/Region Address Telephone

COMMISSIONER ...... Rm. 7654, Dept. of Interior, Washington, DC 20240±0001 202±208±4157 RECLAMATION SERVICE CENTER ...... Bldg. 67, Box 25007, Denver, CO 80225 ...... 303±236±7000 GREAT PLAINS REGION ...... Box 36900, 316 N. 26th St., Billings, MT 59107 ...... 406±247±7608 LOWER COLORADO REGION ...... Box 61470, Nevada Hwy. & Park St., Boulder City, NV 702±293±8420 89005. MID±PACIFIC REGION ...... 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, CA 95825 ...... 916±979±2837 PACIFIC NORTHWEST REGION ...... 1150 N. Curtis Rd., Boise, ID 83706 ...... 208±378±5020 UPPER COLORADO REGION ...... Box 11568, 125 S. State St., Salt Lake City, UT 84147 ...... 801±524±6477 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 323

For further information, contact the Public Affairs Division, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior, Washington, DC 20240–0001. Phone, 202–208–4662. Internet, http://www.usbr.gov/.

Sources of Information

Inquiries on the following subjects United States Fish and Wildlife Service should be directed to the specified Inquiries on the following subjects office, Department of the Interior, should be directed to the specified Washington, DC 20240. office, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Contracts Contact the Office of Department of the Interior, Washington, Acquisition and Property Management, DC 20240. Room 5526. Phone, 202–208–6431. Congressional/Legislative Services Departmental Museum The Museum Congressional staffers and persons has exhibits on topics pertaining to the seeking information about specific bureaus, and a gallery with new exhibits legislation should call the Congressional/ every 3–4 months. It presents public Legislative Services office at 202–208– programs related to departmental themes 5403. and provides tours to school and adult Contracts Contact the Washington, groups on the building’s DC, headquarters Division of , the Museum, and American Contracting and General Services Indians. Contact the staff office, Room (phone, 703–358–1728); or any of the 1024, Main Interior Building. Phone, regional offices. 202–208–4743. Electronic Access to Information The Electronic Access to Information Fish and Wildlife Service offers a range Information is available electronically from the Department of the Interior. of information on the Internet, at http:// Internet, http://www.usgs.gov/doi/ (or see www.fws.gov/. listings for specific Department Employment For information regarding components). employment opportunities with the U.S. Employment Direct general inquiries to Fish and Wildlife Service, contact the the Office of Personnel or visit any of Headquarters Personnel Office (phone, the field personnel offices. 703–358–1743); or the regional office Publications Most departmental within the area you are seeking publications are available from the employment. Superintendent of Documents, Import/Export Permits To obtain CITES Government Printing Office, permits for the import and export of Washington, DC 20402. All other wildlife, contact the Office of inquiries regarding publications should Management Authority. Phone, 703– be directed to the individual bureau or 358–2104. office’s publications or public affairs Law Enforcement To obtain office. information about the enforcement of Information regarding bibliographies wildlife laws or to report an infraction of on select subjects is available from the those laws, contact the Division of Law Natural Resources Library. Phone, 202– Enforcement at 703–358–1949, or the 208–5815. nearest regional law enforcement office. Reading Room Visit the Natural National Wildlife Refuges For general Resources Library, Main Interior information about the National Wildlife Building. Phone, 202–208–5815. Refuge System, as well as information Telephone Directory The Department about specific refuges, contact the of the Interior telephone directory is Division of Refuges, at 703–358–2029, available for sale by the Superintendent or the nearest national wildlife refuge or of Documents, Government Printing regional refuge office. Office, Washington, DC 20402. News Media Inquiries Specific Telephone Locator Phone, 202–208– information about the U.S. Fish and 3100. Wildlife Service and its activities is 324 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL available from the Office of Media Grants-in-Aid For information on grants Services (phone, 202–208–5634); or the authorized under the Land and Water public affairs officer in each of the Conservation Fund, the Urban Park and Service’s regional offices. Recreation Recovery Program, and the Publications The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Historic Preservation Fund, write the Service has publications available on National Park Service, P.O. Box 37127, subjects ranging from the National Washington, DC 20013–7127. Phone, Wildlife Refuge System to endangered 202–343–3700 or 202–343–9564. species. Some publications are only Publications Items related to the available as sales items from the National Park Service are available from Superintendent of Documents, the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. Further Washington, DC 20402. Phone, 202– information is available from the 512–1800. Items available for sale Publications Unit, U.S. Fish and Wildlife include the National Park System Map & Service, Washington, DC 20240. Phone, Guide (stock no. 024–005–01135–8); 703–358–1711. The National Parks: Index 1995 (stock no. 024–005–01160–4); and National National Park Service Parks: Lesser Known Areas (stock no. 024–005–01152–8). Contact the Contracts Contact the nearest regional Consumer Information Center, Pueblo, office; Administrative Services Division, CO 81009, for other publications about National Park Service, P.O. Box 37127, the National Park Service available for Washington, DC 20013–7127 (phone, sale. For general park and camping 202–523–5133); or the Denver Service information, write to the National Park Center, P.O. Box 25287, 12795 West Service, Office of Public Inquiries, Alameda Parkway, Denver, CO 80225 P.O.Box 37127, Room 1013, (phone, 303–969–2110). Washington, DC 20013–7127. Employment Employment inquiries and applications may be sent to the United States Geological Survey Personnel Office, National Park Service, Contracts, Grants, and Cooperative Department of the Interior, Washington, Agreements Write to the Office of DC, and to the field area offices and Program Support, Office of Acquisition individual parks. Applications for and Federal Assistance, 205 National seasonal employment (which must be Center, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, received between September 1 and Reston, VA 20192. Phone, 703–648– January 15) should be sent to the 7373. Division of Personnel Management, Employment Inquiries should be National Park Service, P.O. Box 37127, directed to one of the following Washington, DC 20013–7127. Phone, Personnel Offices: 202–208–5074. Schools interested in the Recruitment and Placement, 601 National recruitment program should write to: Center, 12201 Sunrise Valley Dr., Reston, VA Chief Personnel Officer, National Park 20192. Phone, 703–648–6131. Service, P.O. Box 37127, Department of Personnel Office, United States Geological the Interior, Washington, DC 20013– Survey, Suite 160, 3850 Holcomb Bridge Rd., 7127. Phone, 202–208–5093. Norcross, GA 30092. Phone, 770–409–7750. Films The National Park Service has Personnel Office, United States Geological Survey, Box 25046, Denver Federal Ctr., MS 603, many films on environmental and Bldg. 25, Denver, CO 80225. Phone, 303–236– historical themes. For a list of these films 5900 ext. 361. and sales and for information on how to Personnel Office, United States Geological obtain them, write: National Technical Survey, 345 Middlefield Rd., MS 613, Menlo Park, Information Service, U.S. Department of CA 94025. Phone, 415–329–4104. Commerce, 5285 Port Royal Rd., General Inquiries A network of nine Springfield, VA 22161. Phone, 703–487– Earth Science Information Centers 4650. (ESIC’s) responds to requests for Earth DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 325 science information that are made in monthly periodical New Publications of person, by mail, or by telephone and the U.S. Geological Survey, with yearly assists in the selection and ordering of supplements; Publications of the U.S. all U.S. Geological Survey products: Geological Survey, 1879–1961; Rm. 101, 4230 University Dr., Anchorage, AK Publications of the Geological Survey, 99508–4664. Phone, 907–786–7011. 1962–1970; and a variety of Rm. 3130, Bldg. 3 (MS 532), 345 Middlefield Rd., Menlo Park, CA 94025. Phone, 415–329– nontechnical publications described in 4309. General Interest Publications of the Box 25046, (MS 504), Denver Federal Ctr., United States Geological Survey. Denver, CO 80225. Phone, 303–202–4200. Book and Digital Data Series (CD– Rm. 2650, Dept. of the Interior Bldg., 1849 C ROM) publications are sold by the St. NW., Washington, DC 20240. Phone, 202– Information Services Branch, Denver 208–4047. Federal Center, Box 25286, Denver, CO (MS 231), 1400 Independence Rd., Rolla, MO 80225 (phone, 303–202–4700), and by 65401. Phone, 573–308–3500. the U.S. Geological Survey’s Earth 2d Fl., 2222 W. 2300 S., Salt Lake City, UT 84119. Phone, 801–975–3742. Science Information Centers (see General Rm. 1C402, 507 National Ctr., 12201 Sunrise Inquiries). Valley Dr., Reston, VA 20192. Phone, 703–648– Open-file reports, in the form of 6045. microfiche and/or black and white paper Rm. 135, U.S. Post Office Bldg., 904 W. copies, diskettes, and CD–ROM’s are Riverside Ave., Spokane, WA 99201. Phone, 509– sold by the United States Geological 353–2524. Survey, Open File Reports—ESIC, EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls, SD 57198. Phone, 605–594–6151. Denver Federal Center, Box 25046, Denver, CO 80225. Phone, 303–202– Maps Maps are sold by the Information 4210. Services Branch, United States Single copies of a variety of Geological Survey, Box 25286, Denver nontechnical leaflets, technical reports, Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225 books, and special interest publications (phone, 303–202–4700); and the Earth on Earth science subjects and U.S. Science Information Centers (see General Geological Survey activities are available Inquiries). Information about the status of to the public at the Earth Science U.S. Geological Survey mapping in any Information Centers or upon request State and availability of maps by other from the U.S. Geological Survey, Federal and State agencies can be Information Services Branch, Denver obtained from the Earth Science Federal Center, Box 25286, Denver, CO Information Center, 507 National Center, 80225. Phone, 303–202–4700. Bulk 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA quantities may be purchased from the 20192. Phone, 800–USA–MAPS; or in Superintendent of Documents, Virginia, 703–648–6045. Government Printing Office, Outreach/External and Media Affairs Washington, DC 20402. The Outreach Office of the U.S. Reading Rooms Facilities for Geological Survey coordinates external examination of reports, maps, contacts and special events, responds to publications of the U.S. Geological news media inquiries, arranges Survey, and a wide selection of general interviews, and prepares news releases Earth science information resources and and other informational products historical documents are located at the pertaining to Survey programs and U.S. Geological Survey’s libraries at the activities. The headquarters office is National Center, 12201 Sunrise Valley located at 119 National Center, 12201 Drive, Reston, VA 20192; Denver Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA 20192. Federal Center, Building 20, Box 25046, Phone, 703–648–4460. News media Denver, CO 80225; 345 Middlefield service also is available in Menlo Park/ Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025; and 2255 San Francisco. Phone, 415–329–4000. North Gemini Drive, Flagstaff, AZ Publications The U.S. Geological 86001; and Earth Science Information Survey publishes technical and scientific Centers (see General Inquiries). Maps, reports and maps, described in the aerial photographs, geodetic control data 326 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL or index material, and cartographic data appropriate Minerals Management in digital form may be examined at the Service field office (see listing in the following Earth Science Information preceding text). Centers: Public and News Media Inquiries Rm. 1C402, 507 National Center, 12201 Specific information about the Minerals Sunrise Valley Dr., Reston, VA 20192. Management Service and its activities is 1400 Independence Rd., Rolla, MO 65401. available from the Chief, Office of Box 25046, Bldg. 25, (MS 504), Lakewood Ctr., Communications and Governmental Denver Federal Ctr., Denver, CO 80225. Affairs, Room 4260, (MS 4013), 1849 C 345 Middlefield Rd., Menlo Park, CA 94025. Street NW., Washington, DC 20240. 4230 University Dr., Anchorage, AK 99508– 4664. Bureau of Land Management Spacecraft and aircraft remote sensor Contracts Contracts in excess of data may be examined at the EROS Data $25,000 for public land projects are Center, Sioux Falls, SD 57198. Phone, awarded by the contracting teams of the 605–594–6151. National Business Center (NBC). Phone, Water Data Information on the 303–236–9426. Contracts for Federal availability of and access to water data information processing (FIP) are awarded acquired by the U.S. Geological Survey by the FIP Automated Land and Minerals and other local, State, and Federal Record System Team of the NBC. Phone, agencies may be obtained from the 303–236–6498. Contracts for public land National Water Data Exchange, 421 projects in the States of Oregon and National Center, 12201 Sunrise Valley Washington are awarded by the Drive, Reston, VA 20192. Phone, 703– Contracting Office in Portland, OR. 648–5676. Phone, 503–952–6216. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation Employment Initial appointments to the and Enforcement Bureau are made from registers established by the Office of Personnel Contracts Contact the Procurement Management as a result of examination Branch, Office of Surface Mining, announcements issued by area offices of Department of the Interior, 1951 the Office of Personnel Management NW., Washington, throughout the country. The following DC 20240. Phone, 202–208–2989. Office of Personnel Management TDD, 202–208–2737. announcements are applicable to most Employment For information on professional positions within the Bureau. employment opportunities throughout Announcement No. 421, Biological and the United States, contact the Chief, Agricultural Sciences; Announcement Division of Personnel, Office of Surface No. 424, Engineering, Physical Sciences Mining, Department of the Interior, 1951 and Related Professions. The Mid-Level Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, and Senior-Level registers are also used DC 20240. Phone, 202–208–2965. in a limited number of cases for social TDD, 202–208–2737. sciences professionals and other Bureau of Indian Affairs positions. Inquiries regarding the Bureau of Indian Inquiries should be directed to the Affairs may be obtained by calling the National Human Resource Management Office of Public Affairs at 202–208– Center, any Bureau of Land Management 3710, or writing to the Chief, Office of State Office, or the Personnel Officer, Public Affairs, 1849 C Street, NW., MS Bureau of Land Management, Eastern 1340 MIB, Washington, DC 20240. States Office, Department of the Interior, Springfield, VA, from whom the booklet Minerals Management Service Career Opportunities in the BLM is Inquiries on specific subjects should be available. directed to the appropriate headquarters General Inquiries The Bureau office at 1849 C Street NW., occasionally sells tracts of land, but Washington, DC 20240, or to the generally by public auction and never DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 327 for less than fair market value. It acts as business contacts may be made to the the leasing agent for mineral rights on small business specialist at the Eastern public and other federally administered States office (phone, 703–440–1596); or lands. Information may be obtained from the Washington office of the Bureau any of the State offices or from the (phone, 202–452–5170). Bureau of Land Management, Office of Speakers Local Bureau offices will Public Affairs, Department of the arrange for speakers to explain Bureau Interior, Washington, DC 20240. Phone, programs upon request from 202–452–5135. organizations within their areas of Publications The annual publication jurisdiction. Public Land Statistics, which relates to public lands, is available from the Bureau of Reclamation Superintendent of Documents, Contracts Information is available to Government Printing Office, contractors, manufacturers, and suppliers Washington, DC 20402. from Acquisition and Assistance Reading Rooms All State offices Management Services, Building 67, provide facilities for individuals who Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO wish to examine status records, tract 80225. Phone, 303–236–3750. books, or other records relating to the Employment Information on public lands and their resources. engineering and other positions is Small Business Activities The Bureau available from the Personnel Office, has four major buying offices that Denver, CO (phone, 303–236–3834); or provide contacts for small business from the nearest regional office (see activities. The National Business Center listing in the preceding text). (phone, 303–236–6454) has four teams: Publications Publications for sale are the FIP/ALMRS Team (phone, 303–236– available through the National Technical 0225), the Professional Services Team Information Service. Phone, 1–800–553– (phone, 303–236–9436), the 6847. Construction, Supplies, and Equipment Speakers and Films A volunteer Team (phone, 303–236–9434), and the speaker service provides engineers and Space Leasing Team (phone, 303–236– scientists for schools and civic groups in 9446). These teams are responsible for the Denver area. Films are available on the Western States activities, except for free loan. For speakers or films, contact Oregon (phone, 503–952–6218), which the Reclamation Service Center in is a major buying office. All other small Denver, CO. Phone, 303–236–7000.

For further information, contact the U.S. Department of the Interior, 1849 C Street NW., Washington, DC 20240. Phone, 202–208–3171.