WASHINGTON, May 4 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation announced that it expects to award up to 15 grants or cooperative agreements for drought resiliency projects. The award ceiling for this funding opportunity is $750,000. The category of funding activity is natural resources. Additional Information on Eligibility: Under P.L. 111-11, Section 9502, an eligible applicant is a state, tribe, irrigation district, water district, or other organization with water or power   more

WASHINGTON, May 6 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey announced that it intends to award $2,157,555 cooperative agreements to state geological surveys of Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming for geologic mapping. The category of funding activity is natural resources. The U.S. Geological Survey provided the following overview: "This assistance award,  more

WASHINGTON, May 6 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families' Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation issued the following report entitled "Pima Community College's Pathways to Healthcare Program - Three-Year Impact Report": Introduction This report documents the impacts three years after random assignment for the Pathways to Healthcare program, operated by Pima Community College and Pima County One Stop in Tucson, Arizona. The program aim  more

WASHINGTON, May 7 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for the development of physical models of sandbar dynamics along the Colorado River in Arizona. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $47,520. The category of funding activity is science and technology and other research and development. Additional Information on Eligibility: This financial assistance opportunity is being issued under  more

WASHINGTON, May 7 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management announced that it expects to award up to five cooperative agreements for fisheries an aquatic resource management in Arizona. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $500,000. The category of funding activity is natural resources. Eligible Applicants: Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education; Native American tribal governments (  more

WASHINGTON, May 7 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's U.S. Geological Survey announced that it expects to award a cooperative agreement for a project to support applied decision methods research along the Colorado River in Arizona. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $499,997. The category of funding activity is science and technology and other research and development. Additional Information on Eligibility: This financial assistance opportunity is being issued unde  more

WASHINGTON, May 8 -- The Department of Energy's Office of Legacy Management issued the following news: The Navajo Nation extends over 26,000 square miles and is the largest sovereign nation in the United States. Its impressive size occupies all of northeastern Arizona, as well as parts of southeastern Utah and northwestern New Mexico. The legacy of mining on the Navajo Nation dates to the late 1800s and early 1900s. Mining activities included uranium, vanadium, copper, coal, sand, and gravel.  more

PHOENIX, Arizona, May 5 -- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued the following news release: Phoenix call center LogistiCare Solutions LLC violated federal law when it fired temporary employees placed by a staffing company because they were pregnant, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed on Friday. The EEOC also charged that the staffing company, Human Capital Management, Inc., doing business as HCM Staffing, violated federal law when it  more

LUKE AIR FORCE BASE, Arizona, May 5 -- The U.S. Air Force (56th Fighter Wing) issued the following news: Luke Air Force Base and the Arizona's Air National Guard honored Arizona front line responders with a 15-aircraft flyover today, May 1, 2020. F-35 Lightning II and F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft from the 56th Fighter Wing and 944th Fighter Wing and a KC-135 Stratotanker from and 161st Air Refueling Wing flew over 11 cities in the Phoenix metropolitan area as a tour de force in a Total Force   more

LAKEWOOD, Colorado, May 6 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Mountain Regional Field Office issued the following news release: Arizona's utilized pecan production in 2019 was a record high 36.10 million pounds, up 29 percent from the utilized production of 27.90 million pounds in 2018, according to the Mountain Regional Field Office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service, USDA. Bearing acreage was estimated at 19,000 acres, up 12 percent   more

PHOENIX, Arizona, May 7 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the cities of Phoenix and South Tucson have been selected to receive a total of $1.7 million to assess and clean up contaminated properties under the agency's Brownfields Program. Nationwide, more than 151 communities have been selected to receive grants totaling more than $65.6 million in EPA Brownfields funding. These funds will help under  more

JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Maryland, May 6 -- President Trump issued the following remarks on May 5 before the Air Force departure: THE PRESIDENT: I'm going to Arizona. We're going to see Honeywell. They've done a fantastic job on many different fronts on the pandemic, and we're going to pay our respects and also see the great people of Arizona. Okay. Go ahead. Q Mr. President, with these new projections, a lot of people do want the country to reopen quickly. Are you willing to accept these new proj  more

WASHINGTON, May 6 -- President Trump issued the following remarks on May 5 before the Marine One departure: THE PRESIDENT: So, I'm leaving for Arizona. We're going to be at the Honeywell plant, which is doing great work for us. And it'll be, I think, a great day. I love Arizona. Go ahead, please. Q What happened in Venezuela, sir? Apparently a couple of Americans were detained. THE PRESIDENT: I just got information. Nothing to do with our government, but I just got information on that. Q Wh  more