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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA / ˈ n oʊ. ə / NOH-ə) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.
According to the US Department of Defense (DoD), the agency's "core" capabilities consist of providing personnel recovery guidance, developing, conducting, and supporting personnel recovery education and training, providing support to operations, exercises, and deploying forces, and ensuring that personnel recovery remains viable through the ...
Division (supervisor) – A division is a unit arranged by geography, along jurisdictional lines if necessary, and not based on the makeup of the resources within the division. Group (supervisor) – A group is a unit arranged for a purpose, along agency lines if necessary, or based on the makeup of the resources within the group.
The Agency have five members, including a chairperson elected by its members. By law, at least 30% of the members must be female. The President appoints 10 candidates (twice of the statutory requirement) with approval from the People's Consultative Assembly (DPR), which will serve a five-year term, and the chairperson is elected by and amongst its members.
In August 2023, Walz signed an education bill that included education of Indigenous cultural heritage for all students. [206] In September, he signed the return of parts of Upper Sioux Agency State Park land to the Upper Sioux Community. [207] In December, Walz became the first Minnesota governor to visit all 11 tribal nations in the state. [203]
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters. [2] President Richard Nixon proposed the establishment of EPA on July 9, 1970; it began operation on December 2, 1970, after Nixon signed an executive order. [3]
Kamala Devi Harris [b] (born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th and current vice president of the United States since 2021, serving with President Joe Biden.
Poster by Albert M. Bender, produced by the Illinois WPA Art Project Chicago in 1935 for the CCC CCC boys leaving camp in Lassen National Forest for home. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. [1]