To encourage exploration for domestic sources of minerals, the Office of Minerals Exploration ( OME ) of the U.S. Department of the Interior offers financial assistance to firms and individuals who desire to explore their properties or claims for 1 or more of the 32 mineral commodities listed in the OME regulations.

Information, application forms, and assistance in filing may be obtained from the Office of Minerals Exploration, U.S. Department of the Interior, Washington 25, D.C., or from the appropriate regional office listed below.

American Samoa is an unincorporated and unorganized territory of the United States, administered by the Office of Insular Affairs, US Department of the Interior.

* Fish and Wildlife Service ( Department of the Interior )

* Office of Insular Affairs ( Department of the Interior )

* US Board on Geographic Names ( Department of the Interior )

The company organization of each camp had a dual-authority supervisory staff: firstly, Department of War personnel or Reserve officers ( until 1 July 1939 ), a " company commander " and junior officer, who were responsible for overall camp operation, logistics, education and training ; and secondly, ten to fourteen technical service civilians, including a camp " superintendent " and " foreman ," employed by either the Departments of Interior or Agriculture, responsible for the particular field work.

In 1967 he accepted the position of deputy assistant secretary with the U. S. Department of the Interior, where he was in charge of water quality and research.

The resulting " Helium Privatization Act of 1996 " ( Public Law 104 – 273 ) directed the United States Department of the Interior to start emptying the reserve by 2005.

The island is managed by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service as an insular area under the U. S. Department of the Interior and is part of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument.

It is an unincorporated, unorganized territory of the United States, administered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service of the United States Department of the Interior as part of the National Wildlife Refuge system.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt assigned administration of the island to the U. S. Department of the Interior on 13 May 1936.

Johnston is an unincorporated territory of the United States administered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior as part of the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument.

On December 29, 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt transferred control of Johnston Atoll to the United States Navy in order to establish an air station, and also to the Department of the Interior to administer the bird refuge.

One of Polk's last acts as President was to sign the bill creating the Department of the Interior ( March 3, 1849 ).

Though technically a clerk in the Interior Department, he served as Lincoln's secretary until 1864.

Kingman Reef has the status of an unincorporated U. S. possession of the United States, administered from Washington, DC by the U. S. Department of Interior.

The Northern Mariana Islands does elect its own governor to serve as territorial head of government, but it remains a U. S. territory with its head of state being the President of the United States and federal funds to the Commonwealth administered by the Office of Insular Affairs of the United States Department of the Interior.

Reston, VA: U. S. Department of the Interior, U. S. Geological Survey.

The Atoll was formally annexed by the US in the 19th century and is still administered by the US Department of the Interior.

The Minister of the Department of the Interior, is appointed by The Prince for one five year term, and is mainly responsible for both policing and military activity within Monaco.

Two full-time militarized armed forces exist under the control of the Department of the Interior.

* US Department of the Interior: Indian Affairs

Since Palmyra has no local government at all, it is administered directly from Washington, D. C., by the Office of Insular Affairs, of the U. S. Department of the Interior.

When Hawaii was admitted to the United States in 1959, Palmyra was explicitly separated from the new state as a federal incorporated territory, administered by the U. S. Department of the Interior.

In August 1943, Goerdeler and his friend, the Oberbürgermeister of Stuttgart, the disillusioned SA-Brigadeführer Karl Strölin sent a joint memo to the Reich Interior Minister, the Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler complaining about the anti-Semitic and anti-Christian policies of the Nazi regime, asking for the end of the " emergency " laws that had suspended civil rights in Germancy since 1933, and called for the end of the NSDAP influence on the judiciary.

These records show that the " Paltucci case " in relation to the rescue of the Jews was initiated by Bishop Giuseppe Maria Palatucci who, in 1952, submitted a memo to the Ministry of the Interior asking to consider honoring the police commissary as a savior the Jews.

... the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, and he is hereby authorized, whenever he shall be satisfied that any Indian allottee is competent and capable of managing his or her affairs at any time to cause to be issued to such allottee a patent in fee simple, and thereafter all restrictions as to sale, encumbrance, or taxation of said land shall be removed.

* no session in any one year shall exceed the term of thirty days, and provided that the special sessions may be called whenever, in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior, the interests of said tribes shall require it

Secretary of the Interior James G. Watt — already facing criticism related to his alleged hostility to environmentalism and his support of the development and use of federal lands by foresting, ranching, and other commercial interests, and for banning The Beach Boys from playing a 1983 Independence Day concert on the National Mall out of concerns of attracting " an undesirable element "— resigned abruptly after a September 21, 1983, speech in which he said about his staff: " I have a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple.

" Devaney has also said, " Simply stated, short of a crime, anything goes at the highest levels of the Department of Interior.

Avraham Poraz, Israel's Interior Minister and member of the centrist Shinui Party, said he believed the assassination of Yassin " was a bad idea because I am afraid of a revenge coming from the Palestinian side, from the Hamas side.

At the time, the French Ministry of the Interior said that it could not verify whether Duvalier still remained in the country due to the recently enacted Schengen Agreement which had abolished systematic border controls between the participating countries.

Commenting on the 2½-year probe, U. S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said, " et this case serve notice to anyone considering breaking these laws and trampling our nation's cultural heritage that the BLM, the Department of Justice and the federal government will track you down and bring you to justice.

When the book was first published, Whitman was fired from his job at the Department of the Interior after Secretary of the Interior James Harlan read it and said he found it offensive.

In a document requested by the Movement for Justice and Human Rights and the President João Goulart Institute, the Uruguayan Interior Ministry said that " serious and responsible Brazilian sources " talked about an " alleged plot against the former Brazilian president.

The resulting scandal forced Interior Minister Raymond Marcellin to leave the government, though it is said that Marcellin was a scapegoat for other members of the government, especially the Defense Minister, who was intent on knowing the identities of informers for the newspaper.

In Mountolive ( 1958 ), the third novel of Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet, a French diplomat is said to have ( ironically ) complimented the cruel and venal Egyptian Minister of the Interior, Memlik Pasha, by telling him that he is "... regarded as the best Minister of Interior in modern history -- indeed, since Fouché there has been no-one to equal you.

Immediately after the incident, live on Rustavi-2 television, Georgia's Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili said there was no reason to suspect foul play.

" Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of the Interior in the late 1930s, said there was a violation of the Raker Act, but he and the city reached a final solution in 1945.

Sanhá was removed from his position as Interior Minister by Ialá in August 2001 following suspicions regarding the death of a woman, Florinda Baptista, with whom Sanhá was said to have been romantically involved, although Ialá did not give a reason for Sanhá's dismissal.

At the 2001 congress in Nuremberg, Interior Minister Otto Schily was booed when he said that the expulsions were the consequence of German aggression.

Of the department, Representative Nick J. Rahall II, chairman of the House Natural Resources said " The results of this investigation paint a picture of something akin to a secret society residing within the Interior Department that was colluding to undermine the protection of endangered wildlife and covering for one another ’ s misdeeds .”

Donald Swain, Chief of the Interior Department's National Business Center said the towels do not exist.

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said, " Donations to so-called social welfare groups belonging to Hamas, such as the millions given by IHH, actually support the terror organization Hamas as a whole.

The Interior Ministry accused Sall of money laundering on 26 January 2009 ; Sall denied this and said that the accusation was politically motivated.

* Kuwaiti News Agency reports that a high ranking Iraqi security source in the Interior ministry said that the final death toll of the 13 August bombings in the Al-Zafaraniyah district in southern Baghdad is 57 killed and 145 injured, most of them women and children.

The recordings were said to be of discussions between Kuchma, presidential chief of staff Volodymyr Lytvyn, and Interior Minister Yuriy Kravchenko, and were claimed to have been provided by an unnamed SBU officer ( later named as Major Mykola Mel ' nychenko, Kuchma's bodyguard ).

Two of the alleged killers were said to be senior policemen working for the Interior Ministry's criminal investigations directorate ( CID ).