WASHINGTON, May 4 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency announced that it expects to award up to eight cooperative agreements for floodplain management in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. The estimated total program funding available was cited as $2,267,469. The categories of funding activity are a) community development, b) disaster prevention and relief, c) education, d) employment, labo  more

ARNOLD AIR FORCE BASE, Tennessee, May 6 -- The U.S. Air Force issued the following news: Forty years ago this month, a significant hurdle in bringing the multiyear, multimillion dollar Aeropropulsion Systems Test Facility construction project at Arnold Air Force Base to completion was cleared. The first test cell in ASTF was put into place in May 1980. This milestone occurred almost three years after the ASTF groundbreaking ceremony took place at Arnold and a little more than four years before  more

ARNOLD AIR FORCE BASE, Tennessee, May 8 -- The U.S. Air Force Arnold Air Force Base issued the following news: The Operationally Urgent posture now in place at Arnold Air Force Base brought with it many changes, but one thing remains the same - the support of computer and network systems is as important as ever. The Arnold Engineering Development Complex Base Communications and Information Technology Services team, led by OBXtek Inc., continues its work to ensure personnel both remaining on ba  more

ATLANTA, Georgia, May 5 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following news release: Federal funding is now available for the state of Tennessee to provide crisis counseling services to its residents coping with stress and anxiety as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. On April 30, the presidential disaster declaration for Tennessee was amended to include the Crisis Counseling program. The program assists individuals and communities in rec  more

WASHINGTON, May 7 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 17-cv-07793; S.D.N.Y. filed Oct. 11, 2017): On April 17, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered final judgments on consent against three individuals who were charged with defrauding investors in connection with a purported chocolate caffeinated snack company they controlled. The SEC's complaint alleged that Lisa Bershan and Barry Schwartz, of California,  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 7 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: With Tennessee schools online for the rest of the school year, researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are making remote learning more engaging by "Zooming" into virtual classrooms to tell students about their science and their work at a national laboratory. Julie Ezold, of ORNL's Isotope and Fuel Cycle Technology Division, and Catherin  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 5 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release on May 4: In the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, it's a race against the clock not only to find a vaccine but also to supply healthcare workers with life-saving equipment such as face shields, masks and test kits. Researchers at the Department of Energy's Manufacturing Demonstration Facility and Carbon Fiber Technology Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory are  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 6 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Oak Ridge National Laboratory's high-resolution population distribution database, LandScan USA, became permanently available to researchers in time to aid the response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. LandScan, widely considered the gold standard of population and mapping data in the United States, captures daytime and nighttime activity of the U.S. population at a   more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 6 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: In the 1960s, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's four-year Molten Salt Reactor Experiment tested the viability of liquid fuel reactors for commercial power generation. Results from that historic experiment recently became the basis for the first-ever molten salt reactor benchmark. The benchmark, published in the 2019 OECD/NEA International Handbook of Evaluated Reactor P  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 6 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: By 2050, the United States will likely be exposed to a larger number of extreme climate events, including more frequent heat waves, longer droughts and more intense floods, which can lead to greater risks for human health, ecosystem stability and regional economies. This potential future was the conclusion that a team of researchers from the Department of Energy's Oak  more

OAK RIDGE, Tennessee, May 6 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory issued the following news release: Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory demonstrated a 20-kilowatt bi-directional wireless charging system on a UPS plug-in hybrid electric delivery truck, advancing the technology to a larger class of vehicles and enabling a new energy storage method for fleet owners and their facilities. The demo was the first of its kind to achieve high power transfer across a  more

WASHINGTON, May 6 -- The U.S. Office of Special Counsel issued the following news release: The U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) has alerted the President and Congress that a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facility in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, improperly denied eligible patients access to in-home social work programs by enacting a blanket policy to deny all electronic waitlist (EWL) requests for such services. The VA investigation substantiated the allegations made by a social worke  more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, May 9 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, J. Douglas Overbey, issued the following news release: U.S. Attorney J. Douglas Overbey of the Eastern District of Tennessee announced that Shelbyville Police department received $33,541 in Department of Justice grants to respond to the public safety challenges posed by the outbreak of COVID-19. The grant is available under the Coronavirus Emergency Supplemental Funding program, authorized by the recent sti  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, May 5 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency - Tennessee Field Office issued the following news release: USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA) offices in Tennessee are currently open to phone and virtual appointments only but can still work with producers on timely filing crop acreage reports. FSA staff can provide assistance over the phone, by email and through virtual meetings via Microsoft Teams. The following acreage reporting dates are applicable in T  more

SODDY-DAISY, Tennessee, May 9 -- The Tennessee Valley Authority issued the following news release: The Tennessee Valley Authority's Sequoyah Nuclear Plant Unit 2 resumed 100% power operations after safely completing a scheduled refueling and maintenance outage. Unit 2 provides enough carbon-free energy to power 650,000 homes. In addition to replacing 80 of the unit's 193 fuel assemblies, detailed inspections of various systems were conducted to confirm all components are fully able of performi  more

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee, May 8 -- The Tennessee Valley Authority issued the following news release on May 7: The Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Directors continued its oversight of TVA's mission of service at its meeting Thursday while following public health guidelines intended to protect team members, the public and their families. The board's scheduled quarterly meeting was conducted in a virtual format and streamed live online for the public. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, TVA has  more

WASHINGTON, May 6 -- The Tennessee Valley Authority issued the following news release: The Tennessee Valley Authority reported $5.1 billion in total operating revenues on 74.1 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity sales for the six months ended March 31, 2020. Sales of electricity were about 3% lower as total degree days impacted by overall heating and cooling were 11% below the same period in the prior year. Total operating revenues decreased about 7% from the same period of the prior year dri  more

WASHINGTON, May 7 -- The Tennessee Valley Authority issued the following news release on May 6: The Tennessee Valley Authority announced that it priced $1 billion of new 5-year maturity global power bonds carrying an interest rate of 0.75%. The offering marks a TVA record for the lowest interest rate ever achieved on a bond issuance. TVA announced the 5-year offering on Wednesday to take advantage of the historically low interest rate environment and meet its ongoing funding needs. The proceed  more