Surface Water and Coal Mines / Canceled Visas

Missoulian: Congress scraps Obama rules on coal mining, guns
Stream Protection Rule

Building a Stream Protection Rule

“The rule defines “material damage to the hydrologic balance outside the permit area” for the first time and clarifying that the statutory prohibition on the approval of proposed operations that would result in material damage to the hydrologic balance outside the permit area applies to both surface and underground mining operations. Under SMCRA, the regulatory authority may not approve a permit application unless the application demonstrates, and the regulatory authority finds, that the proposed operation would not result in material damage to the hydrologic balance outside the permit area.”

Missoulian: State Dept: Fewer than 60,000 visas canceled by Trump order

 Report of the Visa Office 2016.

National Visa Center

Yellowstone Dam Project/ Overturning Stream Protection Rule

Missoulian:  Judge asked to lift hold on Yellowstone dam and protect fish
Lower Yellowstone Intake Diversion Dam Fish Passage Project, Montana Environmental Impact Statement Scoping Summary Report

Missoulian: Congress clears measure to scrap Obama coal mining rule

H.J. Res. 38 Disapproving the rule submitted by the Department of the Interior known as the Stream Protection Rule
Stream Protection Rule
“We, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE or OSM), are revising our regulations, based on, among other things, advances in science, to improve the balance between environmental protection and the Nation's need for coal as a source of energy. This final rule will better protect water supplies, surface water and groundwater quality, streams, fish, wildlife, and related environmental values from the adverse impacts of surface coal mining operations and provide mine operators with a regulatory framework to avoid water pollution and the long-term costs associated with water treatment.”
Stream Protection Rule; Final Environmental Impact Statement

Public Lands Transfer/ Zinke Nomination

Missoulian: Updated: More than 1,000 rally against transferring or selling federal lands

LC2316 Joint resolution requesting conveyance of federal land

LC2315 Joint resolution to study federal land conveyance

H.R.621 : To direct the Secretary of the Interior to sell certain Federal lands in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming, previously identified as suitable for disposal, and for other purposes.

Missoulian: GOP-led Senate panel approves Zinke, Perry

Nomination hearing of the Honorable Ryan Zinke to be the Secretary of the Interior

Immigration Ban

Missoulian: Hundreds turn out in Missoula to protest travel ban targeting Muslims

Full Executive Order Text: Trump’s Action Limiting Refugees Into the U.S. (this information is not yet found at whitehouse.gov)

Other presidential actions regarding immigration from: The Papers of the Presidents

Memorandum on Fiscal Year 2011 Refugee Admissions Numbers and Authorizations of In-Country Refugee Status
October 8th, 2010

Memorandum on FY 2010 Refugee Admissions Numbers and Authorizations of In-Country Refugee Status
September 30, 2009

Proclamation 8693—Suspension of Entry of Aliens Subject to United Nations Security Council Travel Bans and International Emergency Economic Powers Act Sanctions (this document may be the source of the list of countries, see the annexes)
July 24^th, 2011

Proclamation 8697—Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Persons Who Participate in Serious Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Violations and Other Abuses
August 4^th, 2011

Memorandum on Fiscal Year 2012 Refugee Admissions Numbers and Authorizations of In-Country Refugee Status
September 30^th, 2011

Executive Order 13597—Establishing Visa and Foreign Visitor Processing Goals and the Task Force on Travel and Competitiveness
January 19^th,  2012

Executive Order 13606—Blocking the Property and Suspending Entry into the United States of Certain Persons With Respect to Grave Human Rights Abuses by the Governments of Iran and Syria Via Information Technology
April 22^nd, 2012

Executive Order 13608—Prohibiting Certain Transactions With and Suspending Entry Into the United States of Foreign Sanctions Evaders With Respect to Iran and Syria
May 1^st, 2012

Hearings:
TEN YEARS AFTER 9/11 — 2011, Hearings  before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. United States Senate, 112^th Congress, First Session. See page 222

Immigration

Missoulian: The Latest: Trump to halt refugee flow into US

Executive Order: Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements

Immigration and Border Laws

Missoulian: GOP leaders: Bill to build wall will cost up to $15 billion
Secure Border Initiative Fence Construction Costs
“CBP had completed about 73 miles of primary SBI fencing costing approximately $198 million as of September 30, 2007, and about 215 miles of fencing costing about $625 million as of October 31, 2008. Seventy-one of the miles completed as of September 30, 2007, were pedestrian fencing completed at costs ranging from $400,000 to $4.8 million per mile and averaging $2.8 million per mile. CBP had also finished about 2 miles of vehicle fencing at a cost of $2.8 million.”

Good Neighbor Environmental Board (GNEB): Reports to the President of the United States

Missoulian: Trump signs immigration actions to build border wall
Executive Order: Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements

Missoulian: Trump's immigration actions mark sharp shift in US policy
Executive Order: Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States

Bullock's State of the State Address / Oil Pipelines / Federal Hiring Freeze

Missoulian: In State of the State, Bullock calls for collaboration to tackle cash crunch

 As Prepared for Delivery: Montana Governor Steve Bullock's 2017 State of the State Address

Missoulian: President Trump's pipeline announcement divides Montanans
Presidential Memorandum Regarding Construction of American Pipelines
Presidential Memorandum Regarding Construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline
Presidential Memorandum Regarding Construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline
Executive Order Expediting Environmental Reviews and Approvals For High Priority Infrastructure Projects

Missoulian: Trump hiring freeze leaves Forest Service workers wondering about firefighting jobs

Presidential Memorandum Regarding the Hiring Freeze