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FINAL EA FLETC Artesia, New Mexico

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) has prepared a Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact to evaluate the potential impacts to the human and natural environment resulting from a proposed project to acquire and transfer land, and construct, operate, and maintain a new driving track and a solar photovoltaic (PV) array near the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC) facilities in Artesia, Eddy County, New Mexico. 

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FINAL Supplemental EA JPC Laredo

In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), the Department of Homeland Security procedures for implementing NEPA (DHS Directive 023-01 Rev 01 and Instruction 023-01-001 Rev 01), and the Council on Environmental Quality regulations for implementing the procedural provisions of NEPA (40 CFR Parts 1500-1508), DHS has prepared a Supplemental Environmental Assessment (SEA) to evaluate the potential impacts to the human and natural environment resulting from a proposed project to construct, operate, and maintain a Joint Processing Center (JPC) on approximately 100 acres of land in Laredo, Webb County, Texas. 

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Earth Systems Sciences

Earth Systems Sciences (ESS) is the transdisciplinary study of the structure and functioning of the Earth as an adaptive, integrated system and the interactions between environments and human and technological systems. Its goal is to produce concepts and analytical frameworks that can address issues of global change in a holistic manner.

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Final Notice and Public Explanation of a Proposed Activity - Forty-Fort, PA

This is to give notice that the Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement  – Homeland Security Investigations, as guided by Executive Order 13690 Establishing a Federal Flood Risk Management Standard and a Process for Further Soliciting and Considering Stakeholder Input and Executive Order 11988, Floodplain Management, as amended, has conducted an evaluation to determine the potential affect that its activity in the floodplain will have on the human environment. The proposed project is located at 1989 Wyoming Avenue, Forty-Fort, PA 18704.

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FINAL Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact

DHS S&T prepared this Draft Environmental Assessment (Draft EA) and Draft Finding of No Significant Impact (Draft FONSI) to evaluate the potential impacts to the human and natural environment relating to the abandonment in place of an existing undersea utility cable and the installation of a new undersea utility cable between Orient Point, NY, and the Plum Island Animal Disease Center (PIADC) on Plum Island, NY, located 1.5 miles northeast of Orient Point (Proposed Action). 

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Final Notice and Public Explanation of a Proposed Activity - Krome (Spanish)

Este es para notificar que el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE, siglas en inglés) del Departamento de Seguridad Nacional (DHS, siglas en inglés), según lo guiado por la Orden Ejecutiva 13690 que establece un estándar federal de gestión de riesgos de inundaciones (FFRMS, siglas en inglés) y un proceso para solicitar y considerar en mayor medida los aportes de las partes interesadas, y la Orden Ejecutiva 11988, Gestión de Llanuras Aluviales, según enmendada, ha realizado una evaluación para determinar el efecto potencial que su actividad en la llanura aluvial tendrá en el medio ambiente humano. El proyecto propuesto está ubicado en 18201 SW 12th St en Miami, Florida, 33194.

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FINAL Environmental Assessment, DSTAR, Egg Harbor

DHS S&T prepared this Environmental Assessment to evaluate the potential impacts to the human and natural environment resulting from a proposed construction and operation the Detection Sciences, Testing and Applied Research Center and the associated Facility for Energetic Materials Research.

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Final Supplemental Environmental Assessment for the James J. Rowley Training Center 2023 Master Plan, U.S. Secret Service

The U.S. Secret Service plans to implement a Master Plan Update for the Rowley Training Center (RTC). The purpose of this study is to evaluate existing infrastructure against requirements and sequence a capital improvement program that closes capability gaps based on a stakeholder-defined vision for the RTC for the next 30 years.

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Eagle Pass Joint Processing Center Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact

DHS prepared an Environmental Assessment to evaluate the potential impacts to the human and natural environment resulting from a proposed project to purchase 62.76 acres of land in Eagle Pass, Texas, and to construct, operate, and maintain a Joint Processing Center to support humanitarian efforts along the southwestern United States/Mexico international border.

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Biden-Harris Administration Announces Nearly $3 Billion in Project Selections to Help Communities Build Resilience to Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas, FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, and Senior Advisor to the President and White House Infrastructure Coordinator Mitch Landrieu announced project selections for nearly $3 billion in climate resilience funding as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, a key pillar of Bidenomics.