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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">indin cty</font></p><h1 class="h1-responsive" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; line-height: 1.2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">top official blamed for 'Thursday night massacre' at Interior Department</font></h1><div itemprop="datePublished" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Wednesday<b>, July 26, 2017  </b> <a href="https://www.indianz.com/News/2017/2017_07_26.asp" title="More stories from this date" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;"><span class="fa fa-calendar" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; display: inline-block; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; text-rendering: auto; line-height: 1; font-weight: 900;" /></a></font></div><div itemprop="datePublished" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">A top <a href="https://www.doi.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">Department of the Interior</a> official is being blamed for a "Thursday night massacre" in which dozens of employees -- including the highest-ranking Indian Affairs officials -- were reassigned by the Trump administration.</font><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem;" /><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to The New York Times, Associate Deputy Secretary Jim Cason was behind the so-called "massacre." Emails were sent to affected employees between 7pm and 8pm on Thursday, June 15, the paper said, informing them of their new posts.</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem;" /><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Among those affected were <b>Mike Black, the acting Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, and Weldon “Bruce” Loudermilk, the director of the <a href="https://www.bia.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">Bureau of Indian Affairs</a>.</b> They learned of their reassignments after spending a week defending the new administration during the mid-year session of the <a href="http://www.ncai.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">National Congress of American Indians</a> in Connecticut, despite lacking key information about a <a href="https://www.indianz.com/News/2017/06/13/tribes-lash-out-at-trump-administration.asp" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">pending reorganization</a> and <a href="https://www.indianz.com/News/2017/06/14/secretary-zinke-rejects-complaints-about-consult.asp" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">other high-profile initiatives</a>.</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem;" /><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Cason was there too, having spent two days (June 13 and June 14) <a href="http://www.ncai.org/events/2017/06/12/2017-mid-year-conference-marketplace" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">at the conference</a> hearing concerns about the Trump team's direction when it comes to tribal matters. But he gave no hint of his forthcoming action when he left the <a href="http://www.mohegan.nsn.us/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">Mohegan Reservation</a> on Wednesday afternoon and returned to Washington, D.C.</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem;" /><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font><figcaption class="figure-caption" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Chief Lynn Malerba of the Mohegan Tribe addresses Jim Cason, the Associate Deputy Secretary at the Department of the Interior, during the mid-year session of the National Congress of American Indians on June 14, 2017, his last day at the conference. Seated next to Cason are Chairwoman Cheryl Andrews-Maltais of the Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe and Brian Gunn, a citizen of the Colville Tribes. Photo by Indianz.Com <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">(CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)</a></font></figcaption><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Despite the reassignment, Black has remained in the<b> "acting" </b>position at the BIA. <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/president-trump" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">President Donald Trump</a> has yet to nominate someone for the Assistant Secretary job, something his two predecessors had already accomplished by this time in their first terms in office.</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem;" /><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">So far, the only two Interior officials who have been confirmed by the <a href="https://www.senate.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">Senate</a> are <a href="https://twitter.com/SecretaryZinke" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">Secretary Ryan Zinke</a>, who started work on March 1, and Deputy Secretary David Bernhardt,</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> who was just <a href="https://www.indianz.com/News/2017/07/25/senate-confirms-familiar-figure-to-top-p.asp" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">approved on Monday</a>.</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem;" /><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Cason, in contrast, serves in a political post that does not require Senate confirmation. Prior to Bernhardt's arrival, he served as Zinke's "acting" deputy, giving him broad authority over the department.</b></font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem;" /><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Black, who is a citizen of the <a href="http://www.sdtribalrelations.com/oglala.aspx" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">Oglala Sioux Tribe</a>, and Loudermilk, who is a citizen of the <a href="http://www.fortpecktribes.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">Fort Peck Tribes</a>, are career, not political, employees. They are part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senior_Executive_Service_(United_States)" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">Senior Executive Service</a> program within the federal government and it's common for these executives to be shifted around to different positions.</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem;" /><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Debra L. DuMontier, who was serving as the "acting" <a href="https://www.doi.gov/ost" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">Special Trustee for American Indians</a>, also was reassigned. She is affiliated with the <a href="http://www.csktribes.org/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes</a>, according to her <a href="https://www.doi.gov/ost/about_us/special-trustee" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">biography</a>.</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem;" /><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Read More on the Story:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/us/politics/interior-secretary-zinke-staff-conservation-regulations.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fpolitics" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">As Interior Secretary Swaggers Through Parks, His Staff Rolls Back Regulations </a>(The New York Times 7/25)</font><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1rem;" /><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Also Today:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/travel/bears-ears-utah-politics-trump-national-monument.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">At Bears Ears in Utah, Heated Politics and Precious Ruins </a>(The New York Times 7/25)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/travel/gold-butte-nevada-antiquities-act-national-monument.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">In Gold Butte in Nevada, Ancient Rock Art and Rugged Beauty </a>(The New York Times 7/25)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/25/travel/berryessa-snow-mountain-california-national-monument.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; background-color: transparent; cursor: pointer; transition: all 0.2s ease-in-out 0s;">At Berryessa National Monument, Wildflowers and Rebirth </a>(The New York Times 7/25)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">follow the money trails ipaa:</font></div><div><h3 style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 40px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other Interior Officials Have Also Met With IPAA</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 27px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245);">FWS Director Nominee And </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Former Monsanto Employee </span><span style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245);">Aurelia Skipwith Has Been Involved In</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Sage Grouse Protection Rollbacks</span><span style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245);"> And Spoke At The IPAA.</span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 27px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;">Skipwith’s Calendars Show She Has Been Involved In The Rollback of Sage Grouse Protections And Spoke At The Independent Petroleum Association Of America (IPAA). “</span>According to her publically released calendars, <b>Skipwith has been deeply involved in the Trump administration’s rollback of habitat protections for the imperiled sage grouse and spoke at the oil and gas association Independent Petroleum Association of America’s (IPAA) regulators’ forum.”</b> [DailyKos, <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/11/1884850/-Trump-Nominates-Former-Monsanto-Employee-as-Director-of-U-S-Fish-and-Wildlife-Service" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 600; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.35s ease 0s;"><span class="te" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px -0.225em; padding: 0px 0.15em; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; position: relative; display: inline-block; z-index: 9;">09/11/19</span></a>]</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px 25px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 25px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><li style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;">The IPAA Is A Former Client Of Interior Secretary David Bernhardt.  </span>“The IPAA is a former client of Secretary Bernhardt’s whose political director was caught on tape laughing about the connections and access they have within the Trump administration,” stated O’Neill.” [DailyKos, <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/11/1884850/-Trump-Nominates-Former-Monsanto-Employee-as-Director-of-U-S-Fish-and-Wildlife-Service" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.35s ease 0s;">09/11/19</a>]</font></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><span style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245);">Skipwith Sent Memos To FWS And The National Park Service Requesting Rules Regarding</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Bear And Wolf Killings Be Reviewed. </span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“I</span><span style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245);">n July 2017, Skipwith sent memos to the National Park Service and FWS requesting they</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> review rules that prevented hunters from<b> killing bears and wolves using extreme techniques, like  baiting the animals with greasy doughnuts, ambushing mothers with pups in dens and shooting animals from boats while the bears are swimming</b>,’</span><span style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245);"> said O’Neill.” [DailyKos, </span><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/11/1884850/-Trump-Nominates-Former-Monsanto-Employee-as-Director-of-U-S-Fish-and-Wildlife-Service" style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.35s ease 0s;">09/11/19</a><span style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245);">]</span></font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 27px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;">Current </span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Deputy Solicitor for Parks and Wildlife</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Solicitor </span></span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder; background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Karen Budd-Falen Met With The Oil Industry Lobbyists Who Helped “Rewrite” Obama-Era Sage Grouse Management Plans</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 27px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;">On June 13, 2019, Karen Budd-Falen had a meeting with representatives from the Independent Petroleum Association Of America (IPAA).</span> In a calendar event titled simply, “Meeting,” Karen Budd-Falen met with people with the email addresses mmiller@ipaa.org and dnaatz@ipaa.org. [Karen Budd-Falen Calendar,<a href="https://westernvaluesproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Karen_Budd-Falen_printable_calendar_foia_SOL_2019.64_Nov_1_to_Jan_30_1_Redacted-1.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 600; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.35s ease 0s;"><span class="te" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px -0.225em; padding: 0px 0.15em; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; position: relative; display: inline-block; z-index: 9;"> <span class="te" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px -0.225em; padding: 0px 0.15em; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; position: relative; display: inline-block; z-index: 9;">06/13/19</span></span></a>]</font></p><ul style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px 25px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 25px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><li style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;">Mark Miller Is A Past Chairman Of IPAA And President Of Merlin Oil & Gas.</span> [IPAA.org,<a href="https://www.ipaa.org/mark-miller/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.35s ease 0s;"> accessed 09/26/19</a>]</font></li><li style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Dan Naatz Is A Lobbyist For IPAA</span><span style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245);">.</span></span><span style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245);"> [Senate Lobbying Disclosure Database,</span><a href="https://soprweb.senate.gov/index.cfm?event=getFilingDetails&filingID=B83784B4-68A4-4BAF-97E2-A8B052CA4669&filingTypeID=60" style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.35s ease 0s;"> accessed 09/26/19</a><span style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245);">]</span></font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 27px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;">IPAA’s Lobbyists Were “Integrally Involved In Rewriting Sage-Grouse Conservation Plans.” </span><span style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245);">“During the Trump administration, IPAA has been integrally involved in rewriting sage-grouse conservation plans. Documents obtained by the </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Western Values Project</span><span style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245);"> indicate that IPAA lobbyists secured numerous meetings with key Interior Department officials, providing an entré for specific companies to give input into sage-grouse plans. In one instance</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">,<b> IPAA arranged phone calls for Chesapeake Energy, ConocoPhillips, and EOG Resources to ask BLM for specific revisions to sage-grouse maps</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245);"><b>. </b>During the process of amending the sage-grouse conservation plans, IPAA submitted formal comments recommending specific policy changes.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> It appears that certain IPAA recommendations — such as cutting requirements to offset habitat damage from development with conservation gains elsewhere — were accepted by the BLM</span><span style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245);">, either partially or in full, as a part of the agency’s draft plans.” [Center For Western Priorities,</span><a href="https://medium.com/westwise/analysis-bernhardt-linked-oil-and-gas-companies-own-more-than-20-percent-of-all-oil-and-gas-47f5c3b5ba90" style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245); text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 600; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.35s ease 0s;"><span class="te" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px -0.225em; padding: 0px 0.15em; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; position: relative; display: inline-block; z-index: 9;"> <span class="te" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px -0.225em; padding: 0px 0.15em; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; position: relative; display: inline-block; z-index: 9;">03/14/19</span></span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245);">]</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 27px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Current </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Associate Deputy Secretary of the Interior James Cason</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Met With IPAA </span><span style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245);">After Rumors Of Bernhardt’s Nomination To Be Secretary Began To Circulate</span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 27px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;">Cason Served as Acting Deputy Secretary of the Interior until Bernhardt’s Nomination was Confirmed. </span>Rumors of Bernhardt’s nomination to Deputy Secretary began circulating in January 2017. Cason joined the Trump Administration as Associate Deputy Secretary on January 20, 2017, and served as Acting Deputy Secretary until David Bernhardt was confirmed in July 2017. [ProPublica, <a href="https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/beachhead" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 600; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.35s ease 0s;"><span class="te" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px -0.225em; padding: 0px 0.15em; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; position: relative; display: inline-block; z-index: 9;">03/08/17</span></a>; <i style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Washington Post</i>, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/07/24/senate-confirms-interior-deputy-despite-conflict-of-interest-claims/?utm_term=.275ab2ebd549" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 600; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.35s ease 0s;"><span class="te" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px -0.225em; padding: 0px 0.15em; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; position: relative; display: inline-block; z-index: 9;">07/24/17</span></a>]</font></p><ul style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 30px; margin: 0px 0px 30px 25px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 25px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><li style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;">Cason’s “Task List” Included Meeting With IPAA.</span> February 17: “Asked to rescind the 113 Financial Assurance orders from small energy companies.” [<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4389567-DOI-Deputy-Secretary-Task-List-3-17-17.html#document/p19/a406782" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.35s ease 0s;">Cason Task List</a>;<a href="https://assets.bwbx.io/documents/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/rL2bONoceiOY/v0" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.35s ease 0s;"> Bernhardt Recusal Letter</a>;<a href="https://www.ipaa.org/about/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.35s ease 0s;"> About IPAA</a>]</font></li></ul><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 27px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Interior Chief Of Staff Todd Willens </span><span style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245);">Met With IPAA</span></font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 25px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 27px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;">On April 26, 2018, Todd Willens had an external meeting with IPAA. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245);">They topics discussed at this meeting were</span><b style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245);"> MBTA,</b><span style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245);"> Mitigation, and the proposed removal of blanket 4(d). In addition to IPAA staff, this meeting included an</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> employee of Noble Energy, which is also on Bernhardt’s recusal list. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245);">[Todd Willens Department Of Influence Profile, </span><a href="https://departmentofinfluence.org/person/todd-willens/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 600; outline: none; background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; touch-action: manipulation; transition: all 0.35s ease 0s;"><span class="te" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px -0.225em; padding: 0px 0.15em; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; position: relative; display: inline-block; z-index: 9;">accessed</span> <span class="te" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px -0.225em; padding: 0px 0.15em; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; position: relative; display: inline-block; z-index: 9;">10/16/19</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245);">, Todd Willens Calendar, 04/26/18]</span></font></p><h3 style="background-color: rgb(250, 248, 245); box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 40px; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-style: solid; border-width: 0px; background-repeat: no-repeat; font-weight: bolder;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">IPAA And Its Members Spend Millions On Campaign Contributions</font></span></h3></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">=</font></div><div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style=""><div class="field-items" style=""><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded" style=""><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.75em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>james "Jim" Edwin Cason '76, a prominent official in the departments of the Interior and Agriculture during the Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump administrations</b>, died Oct. 7, 2021, in Myrtle Beach, S.C., at the age of 67.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.75em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He was born in Athens, Texas, to family of itinerant farm laborers, picking crops from Texas to Oregon. </font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.75em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"As a member of a migrant farm family who traveled the fruit and vegetable circuit of the West Coast, my life and that of my parents has centered around agriculture and ranching. Harvesting crops was the predominate activity of our family for a number of years," Cason told a Senate committee in 1989.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.75em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He graduated from Hood River Valley High School in 1972 with an <b>athletic scholarship to Pacific University</b>. As a scholar-athlete at Pacific, he surpassed expectations in his studies, track and field, and football, graduating magna cum laude in <b>1976 with a bachelor's degree in business administration.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.75em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After graduation, Jim worked internationally, managing the construction of a <b>large development project on the Caspian Sea in Iran</b>. That work ended dramatically when he and his colleagues were forced to flee the country when the Iranian government was overthrown. Cason was among the last Americans to safely exit Iran after the revolution.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.75em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">He joined the Reagan Administration in 1982 when he began working at the U.S. Department of the Interior. Over the course of his 30-year career, he served in a variety of federal agency management positions. At the U.S. Department of Agriculture, he managed the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. At the Interior Department, he rose through the ranks of the Bureau of Land Management, becoming </span><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">acting assistant secretary for Land and Minerals Management, acting assistant secretary for Indian Affairs,</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> and acting assistant secretary for Policy Management and Budget. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">He was associate deputy secretary of the Interior Department in the George W. Bush and Donald J. Trump administrations.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.75em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Jim was one of the last of the greats to serve at DOI," former Interior Solicitor D<b>aniel Jorjani</b> told <em>E&E News</em>, a publication that covers energy policy. "He possessed a rare combination of virtues — granular understanding of internal DOI operations, policy brilliance and an extraordinary work ethic."</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.75em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He was preceded in death by his father James Alton Cason and his sister Valera Ann Cason. He is survived by two sons, Joshua James Cason and Connor Mackenzie Cason; their mother, Susan Hoven Cason; his mother, Joan Ann Cason; and by his siblings, John Thomas Cason (Patricia), Jean Marie Cason (Wayne Ralph) and Roy Earl Cason (Jolene).</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.75em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A memorial service is scheduled for 10 a.m. Nov. 12 at Vienna Presbyterian Church in Vienna, Va. A link to the live streamed service will added to this obituary at a later date. In lieu of flowers, the family requests charitable donations In lieu of flowers the family requests donations to a memorial scholarship being established in James's honor at Pacific University. To support this fund, please visit <a href="https://www.pacificu.edu/give/make-gift" style="text-decoration-line: none; padding-bottom: 3px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 177, 177);">https://www.pacificu.edu/give/make-gift</a>, and indicate a tribute/memorial for "James Cason." For more information, contact <a href="mailto:Orhan.belding@pacificu.edu?subject=James%20Cason%20scholarship" style="text-decoration-line: none; padding-bottom: 3px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(177, 177, 177);">Orhan Belding</a> in Pacific's Development Department.</font></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-date field-type-datetime field-label-hidden" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="field-items" style=""><div class="field-item even" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021</font></div></div></div></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font>

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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Interior's James Cason under examination Posted: September 13, <b>2007 b</b>y: Gale Courey Toensing / Indian Country Today</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> WASHINGTON - As the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation's court case against the Interior Department moves toward conclusion, the tribe has focused attention recently on Associate Deputy Secretary James Cason. Cason is the Interior Department official who signed off on the BIA's Reconsidered Final Determination that stripped the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation of its federal acknowledgement. He notified the tribe of his decision by fax on Columbus Day two years ago. As part of its administration procedures appeal, the tribe has challenged Cason's authority to issue the RFD, contending that his action as the ''decision maker'' violated the Appointments Clause of the Constitution, because he was acting as a ''principal officer'' of the United States without being nominated by the president and approved by Congress, and the Vacancies Reform Act, which was passed to enforce the Appointments Clause. </font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cason has a long history of involvement at Interior. He is among a group of current and former Interior officials from Colorado who all shared the common experience of having been advocates or lobbyists for big oil, gas, coal and mining corporations that operate on public and Indian lands, including former Interior Secretary Gale Norton, Solicitor David Bernhardt, and former Deputy Secretary Steven Griles, who was indicted earlier this year on obstruction of justice charges over his involvement with criminal former lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Cason has mixed reviews in Indian county. While some people have praised him as a ''good manager'' who has tried to improve education, others - especially the large land-based tribes in the West - have vehemently opposed his plan to restructure the education bureaucracy. Others question his involvement in ordering a computer system that has since been determined to have so many glitches in it that it created chaos over land leases. And most people oppose his proposal to end the federal government's trust responsibilities with Cobell plaintiffs when the case concludes.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> If Indian country has given Cason mixed reviews, the environmental community has universally disapproved of him, beginning with his appointment by Norton on Aug. 9, 2001, as associate deputy secretary. On Aug. 24, 2001, the nonprofit environmental organization Friends of the Earth issued a press release headlined ''Position created for Watt Clone at Interior,'' referring to Cason's tenure as deputy assistant secretary under former Interior Secretary James Watt during the Reagan presidency. As Watt's No. 2 man, Cason tried to stop regulations that called for modest limits on drilling in national forests and made it easier to mine in national parks. The group also questioned the title of associate deputy secretary - a title that has not been used for more than a decade and does not appear on the agency's organizational chart. ''Apparently the Bush Administration has taken to creating new positions at Interior in order to ram more appointees with pro-extractive industries, anti-environmental interests down the throat of the American public</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">. Like Norton and Griles, James Cason has been a soldier for moneyed interests who seek to exploit public lands for personal profit,'' Kristen Sykes, of Friends of the Earth, wrote. From 1982 to 1985, Cason served as special assistant to the director of Interior's Bureau of Land Management, and from 1985 to 1990, he served as acting assistant secretary and principal deputy assistant secretary of the Interior Department for Land and Minerals Management. In 1989, President George H.W. Bush nominated Cason for the position of Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and the Environment at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, but he faced a torrent of opposition from both the Senate and the environmental community because of his extreme anti-environmental and anti-taxpayer record. </font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to www.earthjustice.org, among the concerns raised during Cason's failed 1989 confirmation bid were his authorization of a rule that would make federally protected lands such as national parks, national wildlife refuges, and wilderness areas vulnerable to strip mining, and his key role in 1986 in Interior's decision to resume selling titles to federal oil and shale tracts for $2.50 an acre, far below their market value. Cason then approved granting titles to some 82,000 acres, even though Congress had made clear its intent to revise the program. One set of 17,000 acres was purchased by private developers for $42,000 and sold months later for $37 million. R. Max Peterson, the chief of the U.S. Forest Service during the Reagan years, said: ''Mr. Cason's decisions at the Department of the Interior were uniformly bad when measured against any reasonable standard of public interest and fairness to the public which owns the public lands.''</font></p>

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font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jim managed the corporation's health, safety and environmental quality program, property and casualty insurance program, product liability litigation, and worked with the EPA, OSHA ands NIOSH, Jim...</font></span></div></div></article></div><div class="nrn-react-div" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><article id="r1-1" data-handled-by-react="true" data-testid="result" data-nrn="result" class="yQDlj3B5DI5YO8c8Ulio CpkrTDP54mqzpuCSn1Fa SKlplDuh9FjtDprgoMxk" style="margin: 0px; padding: calc(var(--px-in-rem)7.2) 10px; border: 1px solid transparent; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-radius: var(--rounded-md); 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Bush, and Donald Trump administrations, died Oct. 7, 2021, in Myrtle Beach, S.C., at the age of 67. He was born in Athens, Texas, to family of itinerant farm laborers, picking crops from Texas to Oregon.</font></span></div></div></article></div><div class="nrn-react-div" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><article id="r1-2" data-handled-by-react="true" data-testid="result" data-nrn="result" class="yQDlj3B5DI5YO8c8Ulio CpkrTDP54mqzpuCSn1Fa SKlplDuh9FjtDprgoMxk" style="margin: 0px; padding: calc(var(--px-in-rem)7.2) 10px; border: 1px solid transparent; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-radius: var(--rounded-md); box-shadow: var(--theme-shadow-ui); cursor: pointer;"><div class="OQ_6vPwNhCeusNiEDcGp" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; 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padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="OgdwYG6KE2qthn9XQWFC" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: var(--line-height-result-snippet-main); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">James</span> (Jim) <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Cason</span> - <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Associate</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Deputy</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Secretary</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">James</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Cason</span> is a seasoned Department of the <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Interior</span> professional who previously served as the <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Associate</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Deputy</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Secretary</span>, (acting) Assistant <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Secretary</span> for Indian Affairs, and the (acting) Assistant <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Secretary</span> for Policy, Management and Budget under President George W. Bush.</font></span></div></div></article></div><div class="nrn-react-div" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><article id="r1-3" data-handled-by-react="true" data-testid="result" data-nrn="result" class="yQDlj3B5DI5YO8c8Ulio CpkrTDP54mqzpuCSn1Fa SKlplDuh9FjtDprgoMxk" style="margin: 0px; padding: calc(var(--px-in-rem)7.2) 10px; border: 1px solid transparent; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; border-radius: var(--rounded-md); box-shadow: var(--theme-shadow-ui); cursor: pointer;"><div class="OQ_6vPwNhCeusNiEDcGp" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; 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line-height: inherit; vertical-align: top; display: inline-block; max-width: 100%; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: inherit; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Associate Deputy Secretary Jim Cason Announces $1.4 million in Fire ...</font></span></a></h2></div><div class="E2eLOJr8HctVnDOTM8fs" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="OgdwYG6KE2qthn9XQWFC" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: var(--line-height-result-snippet-main); vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">washington - department of the <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">interior</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">associate</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">deputy</span> <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">secretary</span> jim <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 600; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">cason</span> today announced that the department has released the final increment of $1 million to the crow creek sioux tribe in fort thompson, s.d., to address costs stemming from a serious fire that broke out on april 24 at the crow creek high school, a bia-funded, tribally …</font></span></div></div></article></div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></p>