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Search by employee name to find email addresses and telephone numbers of Departmental and Bureau employees
Policies
- Electronic Library of Interior Policies (ELIPS)
ELIPS is a library of the official, Department-wide policies and procedures for the Department of the Interior. It contains long term policies, mandatory procedures, and descriptions of major organization components, as well as selected Secretary’s Orders from 1992 to the present. Current and superseded or expired Departmental Manual Chapters and Bulletins and Memoranda are available on ELIPS. - Office of Financial Management
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News
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The Department of the Interior’s news magazine - Radio News Service
Reports
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This site contains Annual Accountability Reports, Financial Management Reports, Strategic Plans, Performance Plans, Budget Publications, and Audit Reports - Bureau Reports
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Partnerships
- Partnerships at Interior
Describes the roles of partnerships and provides links to many Federal partners’ web sites - Association of Partners for Public Lands
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Includes planning and budget documents, annual reports, and public land statistics - General Land Office Records
Search for official Federal land title records from 1820 to the mid-1960’s - BLM Technical Notes
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Also includes links to Federal Register notices, manuals, handbooks, Secretarial Orders and other documents, Public Land Orders, Instruction Memoranda and Information Bulletins.
Bureau of Mines
The United States Bureau of Mines was established in 1910 by the Department of the Interior and abolished in 1996.
- Bureau of Mines Publications
The National Technical Information Service maintains the collection of the Bureau’s publications, some 5,000 documents.
Bureau of Reclamation
- News Releases
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Fish and Wildlife Service
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Includes alphabetical lists of publications online; the most comprehensive source - Comprehensive Conservation Plans
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Geological Survey
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- CRIS: Current Research Information System
CRIS is the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) computer-based documentation and reporting system for ongoing agricultural, food and nutrition, biological, and forestry research. However, CRIS also contains research information on projects conducted by the USGS Biological Resources Discipline (BRD). - Aerial Photographs and Topographical Maps via Terraserver
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Query and order satellite images, aerial photographs, and cartographic products - Ground Water Atlas of the United States
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Minerals Management Service
- Press Releases
- The Environmental
Studies Program Information System (EPSIS)
EPSIS makes all completed ESP reports available online as full electronic .pdf documents, including images and graphics. Technical summaries of over 700 MMS-sponsored environmental research projects, as well as full pdf documents of over 2,000 research reports, are available for online full text search. - MMS Manual
Contains internal regulations, policy, procedures, and responsibilities of the Minerals Revenue Management Program, Offshore Minerals Management Program, and Administration and Budget Program. - Minerals Revenue Management, Annual Mineral Summaries by State
- MMS Library and Reading Room: Scientific and Technical
Select the MMS program of interest, then search for reports or projects - Scientific and Technical Publications by Region: Alaska Region
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Headquarters Region
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National Park Service
- Media Room
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This site has links to Budget related publications, the Green Book, historical budget information, budget systems, and other related sites. - Catalog of Official NPS Publications
- CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship
- Director’s Orders
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Includes a link to the Parks by Congressional Districts Database - Maps
The maps on this site are digital versions of maps found in the official brochures provided to park visitors - Museum Management Program Publications
Includes the Museum Handbook - National Archeological Database
Locate citations to more than 350,000 technical reports and maps, mostly unpublished. Includes names of lead agencies and locations where copies may be available. - National Register Bulletin
- National Register Information System
- Natural Resource Inventory
Search the Inventory Tracking Database. Natural resource inventories are extensive point-in-time surveys to determine the location or condition of a resource, including the presence, class, distribution, and status of biological resources such as plants and animals, and abiotic resources such as air, water, soils, landforms, and climate. - Natural Resource publications
- NatureBib: Natural Resource Bibliography
- Natural Resource Year in Review
- NPS Digest
Daily Headlines - NPS Digest
InfoZone - NPSpecies
This database provides scientific information on the biodiversity of organisms in National Park Service units - Park Histories
- Park Science
- Planning Documents
- Office of Policy
Includes links to laws, regulations, Director’s Orders, Executive Orders, Management policies, etc. - Preservation Briefs
- Social Science Program reports
- Statistics
Includes links to public use reports and acreage reports
Office of Surface Mining
- News Releases
- Publications
- Directives
- Surface Mining Regulation and Reclamation: Bibliography and Abstracts of Research Reports Completed between Fiscal Years 1978-1998
