TRENTON, North Dakota, Feb. 22 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Omaha District issued the following news release: A draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the proposed rehabilitation of a segment of an 8-inch-diameter steel crude oil pipeline, Line 84, owned and operated by the North Dakota Pipeline Company, LLC (Enbridge), near the City of Trenton, North Dakota in Williams and McKenzie Counties at the Missouri River crossing is currently available for public review and comment. Line 84 wa  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the following document from Economics Daily: * * * In December 2023, Burlington-South Burlington, Vermont, had the lowest unemployment rate among metropolitan areas, at 1.6 percent. The next lowest rates were in Fargo, North Dakota-Minnesota, and Manhattan, Kansas, 1.7 percent each. El Centro, California, had the highest rate, 18.3 percent. A total of 9 areas had jobless rates of less than 2.0 perc  more

ST. PAUL, Minnesota, Feb. 24 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-St. Paul District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, awarded a $12.8 million contract to Hendrickson Transportation, LLC, of Hamburg, Iowa, yesterday, Feb. 22, to complete the Oxbow-Hickson-Bakke Ring Levee portion of the Fargo, North Dakota/Moorhead, Minnesota, Metropolitan Area Flood Risk Management Project, also known as the FM Area Diversion. The ring levee will reduce the   more

DENVER, Colorado, Feb. 24 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * Funding opportunity for projects to reduce pollution and waste through changes in the use of natural resources and materials * * * The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is opening the FY2024-2025 Regional Source Reduction Assistance Notice of Funding Opportunity for applicants in the states of Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming and 28 Tribal Nations   more

BISMARCK, North Dakota, Feb. 20 (TNSres) -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: * * * Unprecedented funding from Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is transforming communities across the state * * * Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $42,956,000 from President Biden's Investing in America agenda for North Dakota drinking water and clean water infrastructure upgrades. The funding is part of the over $50 billion investment in water  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 -- The White House issued the following news release: On February 15, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. declared that a major disaster exists in the State of North Dakota and ordered Federal assistance to supplement state, tribal, and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by a severe winter storm and straight-line winds from December 25 to December 27, 2023. Federal funding is available to state, tribal, and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organ  more

SACRAMENTO, California, Feb. 22 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release on Feb. 21, 2024: Low-interest federal disaster loans are now available to certain private nonprofit organizations in North Dakota following President Biden's federal disaster declaration for Public Assistance as a result of severe winter storm and straight-line winds that occurred Dec. 25 - 27, 2023, announced Administrator Isabella Casillas Guzman of the U.S. Small Business Administration. P  more