WASHINGTON, July 30 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service announced that it expects to award a discretionary grant for Farm Bill implementation assistance in Oregon. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $500,000. The agency said the grant was associated with natural resources. The funding is open to open to all domestic applicants. The funding opportunity number is USDA-NRCS-OR-MULTI-GEN0010329 (CFDA 10.902). It was posted on July   more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- The National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) issued the following news release: In support of an Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) grant application, Amtrak announced a matching $750,000 contribution to reduce delays in the Pacific Northwest Rail Corridor. ODOT's grant application, if successful, will restore an out-of-service siding between Portland and Salem. Restoring this siding will improve on-time performance on a rail line segment where the largest  more

SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 31 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics - Western Regional Information Office issued the following news release: All seven of Oregon's large counties had employment gains from December 2017 to December 2018, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported today. (Large counties are defined as those with 2017 annual average employment levels of 75,000 or more.) Assistant Commissioner for Regional Operations Richard Holden noted that four  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 - The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service announced that it intends to award a $56,000 cooperative agreement to the Conservation Legacy of Durango, Colorado, for interns in the areas of conservation, preservation and community engagement along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail in Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Washington and West Virginia. The  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, Aug. 2 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued the following news release: The success of fish populations throughout the Willamette Valley is dependent on support from a network of agencies. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) is taking steps to help protect and sustain fish populations, and to meet the National Marine Fisheries Service's 2008 Willamette Valley Project Biological Opinion requirements for endangered fish species. Built in the mid-1960s, Fall Creek Dam  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 - The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey announced that it intends to award a $21,412,881 cooperative agreement to the University of California, Berkeley; University of Washington; University of Oregon; and California Institute of Technology for the improvement of ShakeAlert earthquake early warning system. The agency description of the grant states: "The main objective of these cooperative agreements is to continue and further the Earthquake Hazards Pr  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration (MARAD) today announced the designation of nine Marine Highway Projects and a Marine Highway Route that will benefit Connecticut, Florida, Michigan, New York, Oregon, Texas, Virginia, Washington State and American Samoa. Marine highways are navigable waterways that can be used as alternate options to traditional  more

PORTLAND, Oregon, July 30 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's Federal Bureau of Investigation Portland Field Office issued the following news release: Welcome to the Oregon FBI's Tech Tuesday segment. This week: building a digital defense against direct deposit scams. We have been getting a number of reports lately from the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center - or IC3.gov - about a particular scam hitting Oregonians hard in recent months. Here's how it works. An organization - it can be a g  more

WASHINGTON, July 31 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration issued the following news release: U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will award $478 million in airport infrastructure grants, the fourth allotment of the total $3.18 billion in Airport Improvement Program (AIP) funding for airports across the United States. "This significant investment in airport improvements in   more