Improving Water Supplies for Indian Tribes

Construction underway on the Fruitland Reach of the Navajo Nation Municipal Pipeline. The Fruitland Reach is the first of seven total reaches to be constructed. When complete, the NNMP will deliver 4,680 acre-feet of municipal and industrial water per year via 29-mile-long pipeline from Farmington to Shiprock, NM.
http://recovery.doi.gov/press/2009/10/secretary-salazar-announces-47-million-more-under-recovery-act-to-improve-water-supplies-for-indian-tribes/

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Saving Lives and Creating Jobs

Grants totaling $5 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act are being awarded to 13 universities nationwide to upgrade critical earthquake monitoring networks and increase public safety.
http://recovery.doi.gov/press/2009/09/recovery-act-funds-will-upgrade-earthquake-monitoring/

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Preserving History and Jobs

20 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) will be the beneficiaries of $14.25 million for historic preservation grants aimed at providing assistance in the repair of historic buildings on their campuses including Minor Normal School at Howard University
http://www.doi.gov/news/09_News_Releases/091809a.html

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New Jobs and School in Indian Country

Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Larry EchoHawk kicks off Phase II of a major school replacement and improvement project at Rough Rock Community School on a Navajo Reservation in Arizona. The project is being developed to meet the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED) Silver Certification criteria.
http://recovery.doi.gov/press/2009/09/project-underway-to-replace-rough-rock-community-school/

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Bridge to Recovery

Over Labor Day weekend the Alaska Office of the Bureau of Land Management completed work on one of their many recovery projects - a footbridge at the Paxson Lake Campground. Volunteers from a Boy Scout troop in Fairbanks pitched in to help finish the job.
http://recovery.doi.gov/press/bureaus/bureau-of-land-management/paxson-lake-campground

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Clean Enough to Drink?

The Bureau of Reclamation is investing $40 million to help clean up drinking water for more than 27,000 residents or rural eastern Montana.
http://recovery.doi.gov/press/2009/08/secretary-salazar-announces-40-million-investment-for-rural-water-in-northeastern-montana/

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Protecting Jobs and Wildlife

"The great thing about stimulus money is it's not something that is promised two years down the line, it's happening right now." - John Simpson, a foreman on the San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge project.
http://recovery.doi.gov/press/us-fish-and-wildlife-service-san-francisco-bay-national-wildlife-refuge-complex/

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DOI Recovery Investments by Bureau

Select a bureau below to learn more about how each is contributing to America's economic recovery.