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| About a quarter of a billion pages of Indian records have been collected, digitally imaged, and coded for search and retrieval in the ongoing effort. Some documents date to the 1910's.
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| The Department of the Interior has released a status report on its $100 million historical accounting effort that continues to examine account transactions relating to the Indian trust accounts of thousands of individual Indian beneficiaries as required by federal law. Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton says the historical accounting effort is unprecedented.
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"No other federal financial system—not the tax collection system, the Social Security system, or the Medicare system—has ever been tasked with an undertaking of this type and scope," Secretary Norton said in the report's introduction.
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 HURRICANE KATRINA UPDATE 
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Wild Horse and Burro
Adoption Program |
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| The Department of the Interior,
comprising the eight bureaus listed at the right: |
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Manages 1 out of every 5 acres of land
in the US. |
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Provides the resources for nearly
one-third of the Nation's energy. |
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Works with 562 federally recognized
Indian Tribes. |
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Administers U.S. responsibility to four
overseas Territories. |
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Provides water to 31 million citizens
through 824 dams and reservoirs. |
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Receives over 450 million visits each
year to 388 units of the national park system, 544 wildlife refuges
and vast areas of multiple use lands. |
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Provides opportunities for hunters and
anglers, working to improve habitat on millions of acres of public
and private lands. |
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| Below are links to some DOI sites that
may be of interest. |
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| MMS is active in protecting offshore facilities and workers in anticipation of Hurricane Rita. |
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| Four Preserve America Presidential Award winners have been selected for outstanding achievements in sustainable historic preservation.
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| For the second time in history, a woman has won the Federal Duck Stamp contest.
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| Reclamation continues to mobilize equipment and staff to respond to the disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina.
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| OSM has presented its annual Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation Awards honoring outstanding abandoned mine reclamation programs in Colorado, Indiana and Kentucky.
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| BLM Director Kathleen Clarke has announced winners of the 2005 Reclamation and Sustainable Mineral Development Awards.
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| BIA director Patrick Ragsdale has met with tribal leaders and toured damaged tribal areas of the Gulf coast impacted by Hurricane Katrina.
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| USGS has produced stunning satellite imagery of the Gulf coast region in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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Opportunity Data Required to be Posted by the No FEAR Act |
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