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 and Legislative MELANIE BELLER Affairs Special Assistant and Counselor to the JAMES H. PIPKIN Secretary Special Assistant to the Secretary and White ROBERT K. HATTOY House Liaison Science Adviser to the Secretary WILLIAM BROWN Director, Office of Communications MICHAEL GAULDIN Director of Intergovernmental Affairs PADDY MCGUIRE Special Assistant to the Secretary and JULIE FALKNER Director, Executive Secretariat Special Assistant to the Secretary for Alaska DEBORAH L. WILLIAMS 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 (Land and Water (VACANCY) Resources) Associate Solicitor (General Law) (VACANCY) Associate Solicitor (Indian Affairs) ROBERT T. ANDERSON Associate Solicitor (Mineral Resources) KAY HENRY Inspector General WILMA A. LEWIS Deputy Inspector General (VACANCY) Assistant Inspector General (Administration) SHARON D. ELLER Assistant Inspector General (Audits) ROBERT J. WILLIAMS Assistant Inspector General (Investigations) JOHN R. SINCLAIR General Counsel RICHARD N. REBACK Assistant SecretaryÐWater 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 SecretaryÐFish and Wildlife and (VACANCY) Parks Deputy Assistant Secretary DONALD J. BARRY Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (VACANCY) Director, National Park Service (VACANCY) Assistant SecretaryÐIndian Affairs ADA E. DEER Deputy Assistant Secretary MICHAEL J. ANDERSON Commissioner of Indian Affairs (VACANCY) 307 308 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL Deputy Commissioner of Indian Affairs HILDA MANUEL Assistant SecretaryÐLand 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 (VACANCY) Reclamation and Enforcement Assistant SecretaryÐPolicy, 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 Policy CAROLYN J. COHEN Director, Ethics Staff GABRIELE J. PAONE Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and BROOKS B. YEAGER International Affairs 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 Deputy Assistant Secretary for Budget and ROBERT J. LAMB Finance 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 Chief Executive Officer, Interior Service Center CLAUDIA P. SCHECHTER Director, Office of Aircraft Services ELMER J. HURD 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. The Department manages the Nation's public lands and minerals, national parks, national wildlife refuges, and western water resources and upholds Federal trust responsibilities to Indian tribes. It is responsible for migratory wildlife conservation; historic preservation; endangered species; surface-mined lands protection and restoration; mapping; and geological, hydrological, and biological science. The Department of the Interior was the Patent Office. It was reorganized by created by act of March 3, 1849 (43 Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1950, as U.S.C. 1451), which transferred to it the amended (5 U.S.C. app.). General Land Office, the Office of Over the years, other functions have Indian Affairs, the Pension Office, and been added and removed, so that its role DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR SECRETARY DEPUTY SECRETARY –– EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT –– CONGRESSIONAL AND LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS SOLICITOR –– COMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANT SECRETARY POLICY, MANAGEMENT, AND INSPECTOR GENERAL BUDGET AND CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER OFFICE OF SPECIAL OFFICE OF SMALL TRUSTEE FOR OFFICE OF HEARINGS DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND DISADVANTAGED AMERICAN INDIANS AND APPEALS BUSINESS UTILIZATION ASSISTANT SECRETARY ASSISTANT SECRETARY ASSISTANT SECRETARY ASSISTANT SECRETARY FISH AND WILDLIFE INDIAN AFFAIRS LAND AND MINERALS WATER AND SCIENCE AND PARKS MANAGEMENT U.S. FISH MINERALS NATIONAL BUREAU OF BUREAU OF U.S. GEOLOGICAL BUREAU OF AND WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT PARK SERVICE INDIAN AFFAIRS LAND SURVEY RECLAMATION SERVICE MANAGEMENT SERVICE OFFICE OF SURFACE MINING 309 RECLAMATION AND ENFORCEMENT 310 U.S. GOVERNMENT MANUAL has changed from that of general Outer Continental Shelf to the outer housekeeper for the Federal Government limits of the United States economic to that of custodian of the Nation's jurisdiction; minerals operations natural resources. management on Indian lands; surface mining reclamation and enforcement Office of the Secretary functions; and management of revenues Secretary The Secretary of the Interior from Federal and Indian mineral leases. reports directly to the President and is The Office exercises Secretarial direction responsible for the direction and and supervision over the Bureau of Land supervision of all operations and Management, the Minerals Management activities of the Department. The Office Service, and the Office of Surface of the Secretary includes the offices of Mining Reclamation and Enforcement. Deputy Secretary, the Assistant Indian Affairs The Office of the Secretaries, the Special Trustee for Assistant Secretary (Indian Affairs) has American Indians, the Solicitor, and the responsibility for activities pertaining to Inspector General. Some areas where Indians and Indian affairs, including: public purposes are broadly applied Ðproviding the Secretary with include: detailed and objective advice on matters Fish and Wildlife and Parks The Office involving Indians and Indian affairs; of the Assistant Secretary (Fish and Ðidentifying and acting on issues Wildlife and Parks) has responsibility for affecting Indian policy and programs; programs associated with conservation in Ðestablishing policy on Indian affairs; the use of natural and cultural resources, Ðmaintaining liaison and and the enhancement and protection of coordination between the Department fish, wildlife, vegetation, and habitat. and other Federal agencies that provide The Office represents the Department in services or funding to Indians; the coordination of marine Ðrepresenting the Department in environmental quality and biological transactions with Congress; resources programs with other Federal Ðmonitoring and evaluating ongoing agencies. It also exercises Secretarial activities related to Indian affairs; and direction and supervision over the Ðproviding leadership in special United States Fish and Wildlife Service assignments and projects for the and the National Park Service. Secretary. Water and Science The Office of the Policy, Management, and Budget The Assistant Secretary (Water and Science) Office of the Assistant Secretary (Policy, carries out the statutory mandate to Management, and Budget) has manage and direct programs that support responsibility for all phases of the development and implementation of management, budget, and other water, mineral, and science policies and administrative activities. The Assistant assist the development of economically Secretary serves as the principal policy and environmentally sound resource adviser to the Secretary and is the activities. It oversees the programs of the Department's Chief Financial Officer. Bureau of Reclamation and the United For further information, contact the Office of the States Geological Survey. It also provides Assistant Secretary (Policy, Management, and advice on Earth science matters to the Budget). Internet, http://www.usgs.gov/doi/policy- Secretary and represents the Department management-budget.html in interagency efforts on a range of scientific issues. Office of the Solicitor Land and Minerals Management The The Office of the Solicitor performs all of Office of the Assistant Secretary (Land the legal work of the Department with and Minerals Management) has the exception of that performed by the responsibility for programs associated Office of Hearings and Appeals, the with public land management; Office of Congressional and Legislative operations management and leasing for Affairs, and the Office of Inspector minerals on public lands, including the General. The Solicitor is the principal DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 311 legal adviser to the Secretary and the involving programs (other than minerals- chief law officer of the Department. related) of the Assistant Secretary for The headquarters office, located in Land and Minerals Management, the