WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation issued the following news release: SIBLEY, Iowa Today, the Bureau of Reclamation celebrated Sibley becoming the 20th and final member of the Lewis & Clark Regional Water System to be connected to its water supply during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Sibley Meter Building in Iowa. The meter building is the last piece of critical infrastructure needed to allow water to flow to the people of Sibley. The city now   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued the following news release: * * * CDC assesses the risk to the general public is extremely low * * * The CDC and the Iowa Department of Health are investigating a suspected case of Lassa fever, which was diagnosed today in an Iowa resident who returned to the United States from West Africa early this month. The patient was not sick while traveling so the risk to fellow a  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has released the following public communication dated Oct. 18, 2024, from Workiva Inc., Ames, Iowa. Here are excerpts: * * * To: Chief Counsel's Office, Attention: Comment Processing, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, 400 7th Street SW, Suite 3E-218, Washington, DC 20219 To: Ann E. Misback, Secretary, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, 20th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20551 To: Jame  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration has released the following public communication dated Oct. 17, 2024, from the Iowa Department of Transportation: * * * To: U.S. Department of Transportation Docket Operations M-30 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20590-0001 Re: Docket FHWA-2024-0006 * * * The Iowa Department of Transportation (Iowa DOT) is offering comment on Docket No. FHWA-2024-006 concerning the Federal Highway Adminis  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- Rep. Randy Feenstra, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: HULL, IOWA Last Friday, U.S. Rep. Randy Feenstra (R-Hull) helped lead a letter with U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), U.S. Rep. Brad Finstad (R-MN), and U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI) to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack demanding answers about the U.S. Department of Agriculture's 2022 approval of nearly $46 million in taxpayer dollars for Pure Prairie Poultry and its subsequent bankruptcy in la  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- Rep. Brad Finstad, R-Minnesota, issued the following news release: Congressman Brad Finstad (MN-01), member of the House Committee on Agriculture and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Nutrition, Foreign Agriculture, and Horticulture, was joined by U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) in leading seven bicameral members of Congress in a letter to United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack regarding distribution and oversight of grants and loans followi  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- Sen. Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, issued the following news release: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Rep. Brad Finstad (R-Minn.) are leading a letter scrutinizing the Department of Agriculture (USDA)'s loan and grant oversight practices after a recent awardee, Pure Prairie Poultry, shut down. Grassley and Finstad serve on the Senate and House Agriculture Committees, respectively. "USDA is responsible for keeping tabs on the taxpayer-funded grants it administers, but it   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey issued the following news release: The data collection will be conducted through the USGS Earth Mapping Resources Initiative (Earth MRI), a partnership between the USGS and state geological surveys that is revolutionizing our understanding of the nation's geology and domestic mineral resources, both in the ground and in mine waste. Since 2021, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) has advanced scientific inn  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 -- Rep. Derrick Van Orden, R-Wisconsin, issued the following news release: Congressman Derrick Van Orden (WI-03), along with Reps. Brad Finstad (MN-01) and Randy Feenstra (IA-04), penned a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack following Pure Prairie Poultry's bankruptcy that resulted in nearly 50 farmers and more than two million chickens throughout Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa being left without feed or processing options. In the letter, the Membe  more