There were 112 notices published by the Interior Department in March, according to the Federal Register.

The most recent notice, Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Terms, and Conditions for Leasing Public Lands for Solar and Wind Energy Development, was submitted on March 31, 2023.

The Interior Department published 106 the month before, marking a 5.7 percent increase for the current month.

The Department oversees more than 500 million acres of land. Downsizing the Federal Government, a project aimed at lowering taxes and boosting federal efficiency, said the department has contributed to a growing water crisis and holds many lands which could be better managed.

Notices are required documents detailing rules and regulations being proposed by each federal department. This allows the public to see what issues legislators and federal departments are focusing on.

Any person or organization can comment on the proposed rules. Departments and agencies must then address “significant issues raised in comments and discuss any changes made,” the Federal Register says.

Notices published by the Interior Department in March

Title	Publication Date
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Terms, and Conditions for Leasing Public Lands for Solar and Wind Energy Development	03/31/2023
Final Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report for Tijuana Estuary Tidal Restoration Program II Phase I	03/31/2023
Foreign Endangered Species; Receipt of Permit Applications	03/31/2023
National Register of Historic Places; Notification of Pending Nominations and Related Actions	03/30/2023
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget; Depredation and Control Orders	03/30/2023
Notice of Inventory Completion: Schiele Museum of Natural History, Gastonia, NC	03/29/2023
Request for Nominations for the Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park Advisory Commission	03/29/2023
Notice of Inventory Completion: New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ	03/29/2023
Gateway National Recreation Area Fort Hancock 21st Century Advisory Committee Notice of Public Meeting	03/29/2023
Notice of Inventory Completion: Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, MS	03/29/2023
Notice of Inventory Completion: Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Forensic Science and Anthropology Program, Richmond, VA	03/29/2023
Notice of Inventory Completion: Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville, TN	03/29/2023
Agency Information Collection Activities; Commercial Use Authorizations	03/29/2023
Notice of Inventory Completion: Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, MS	03/29/2023
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA	03/29/2023
Call for Nominations to the Missouri Basin and Western Montana Resource Advisory Councils	03/29/2023
Receipt of Incidental Take Permit Application and Proposed Habitat Conservation Plan for the Sand Skink and Blue-Tailed Mole Skink; Polk County, FL; Categorical Exclusion	03/29/2023
Marine Mammal Protection Act; Stock Assessment Reports for Two Stocks of West Indian Manatee	03/29/2023
Meetings of the California Desert District Advisory Council	03/28/2023
Endangered Species; Receipt of Recovery Permit Applications	03/28/2023
Hunting and Wildlife Conservation Council Meeting	03/28/2023
Notice of Public Meeting, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument Advisory Committee, Utah	03/28/2023
Filing of Plats of Survey: Oregon/Washington	03/28/2023
Agency Information Collection Activities; Project Planning for the Use of Outer Continental Shelf Sand, Gravel, and Shell Resources in Construction Projects That Qualify for a Negotiated Noncompetitive Agreement	03/28/2023
Committee for the Preservation of the White House; Notice of Public Meeting	03/27/2023
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Eagle Take Permits and Fees	03/27/2023
National Register of Historic Places; Notification of Pending Nominations and Related Actions	03/27/2023
Agency Information Collection Activities; USGS Ashfall Report	03/27/2023
Notice of Competitive Offer for Solar Energy Development on Public Lands in Saguache County, CO	03/24/2023
Hunting and Wildlife Conservation Council; Request for Nominations	03/24/2023
Receipt of Incidental Take Permit Application and Proposed Habitat Conservation Plan for the Caracara, Brevard County, FL; Categorical Exclusion	03/23/2023
Receipt of Incidental Take Permit Application and Proposed Habitat Conservation Plan for the Sand Skink and Blue-Tailed Mole Skink; Polk County, FL; Categorical Exclusion	03/23/2023
Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Initiation of 5-Year Status Reviews for 133 Species in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, California, Nevada, Hawaii, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands	03/23/2023
Endangered Species; Receipt of Recovery Permit Applications	03/23/2023
Endangered Species; Recovery Permit Applications	03/23/2023
Endangered and Threatened Species; Receipt of Recovery Permit Applications	03/23/2023
Endangered and Threatened Species; Receipt of Recovery Permit Applications	03/23/2023
Endangered and Threatened Species; Receipt of Recovery Permit Applications	03/23/2023
Draft Environmental Assessment and Proposed Habitat Conservation Plan for Crescent Wind Project, Hillsdale County, Michigan; Reopening of Public Comment Period	03/23/2023
Indian Child Welfare Act; Designated Tribal Agents for Service of Notice	03/22/2023
Notice of Intent To Amend the Resource Management Plan for the Campbell Tract Special Recreation Management Area, Anchorage, Alaska, and Prepare an Associated Environmental Assessment	03/22/2023
Notice of Application for Withdrawal and Notification of Public Meeting, Pactola Reservoir-Rapid Creek Watershed; South Dakota	03/21/2023
Notice of Segregation of Public Land for the Mosey Solar Project, Clark and Nye Counties, Nevada	03/21/2023
Notice of Inventory Completion: Moravian Historical Society, Nazareth, PA	03/21/2023
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: The Filson Historical Society, Louisville, KY	03/21/2023
Notice of Inventory Completion: Rice University, Houston, TX	03/21/2023
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of Tennessee, McClung Museum of Natural History & Culture, Knoxville, TN	03/21/2023
Notice of Inventory Completion: San Francisco State University NAGPRA Program, San Francisco, CA, and University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA	03/21/2023
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items Amendment: California Department of Parks and Recreation, Sacramento, CA	03/21/2023
Notice of Inventory Completion: C.H. Nash Memorial Museum/Chucalissa Archaeological Museum, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN	03/21/2023
Notice of Inventory Completion: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, CA	03/21/2023
Notice of Determination of No Competitive Interest (DNCI) in a Proposed Research Lease Area on the Gulf of Maine Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)	03/20/2023
Agency Information Collection Activities; Alaska Native Handicrafts	03/20/2023
National Register of Historic Places; Notification of Pending Nominations and Related Actions	03/20/2023
Agency Information Collection Activities; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Grassland Easements	03/20/2023
Endangered Species; Receipt of Recovery Permit Application	03/20/2023
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Endangered and Threatened Wildlife, Experimental Populations	03/20/2023
Agency Information Collection Activities; Big Cat Public Safety Act Registration	03/20/2023
Notice of Availability of the Record of Decision for the Whitewater River Groundwater Replenishment Facility, Riverside County, CA	03/16/2023
Notice To Reopen the Advisory Council for Climate Adaptation Science Call for Nominations	03/16/2023
Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records	03/16/2023
Notice of Availability of the Proposed Notice of Sale for Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Lease Sale 261	03/15/2023
Lands Chief, National Trails Land Resources Program Office; Delegation of Authority	03/15/2023
Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records	03/15/2023
Notice of Public Meeting of the Alaska Resource Advisory Council	03/15/2023
Advisory Board of Exceptional Children; Meeting.	03/15/2023
Notice of Filing of Plats of Survey, Colorado	03/14/2023
Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment Open Ocean Trustee Implementation Group Draft Restoration Plan 3 and Environmental Assessment: Birds	03/14/2023
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Preliminary Land Acquisition Process	03/13/2023
Agency Information Collection Activities; Preferences for Climate Adaptation Strategies in the Midwest	03/13/2023
Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Initiation of 5-Year Status Reviews of 27 Listed Species in the Mountain-Prairie Region	03/13/2023
Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Initiation of 5-Year Status Review of the Mexican Wolf in the Southwest	03/13/2023
Foreign Endangered Species; Receipt of Permit Applications	03/13/2023
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Migratory Bird Surveys	03/10/2023
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA	03/10/2023
Notice of Inventory Completion Amendment: U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, DC	03/10/2023
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Mukwonago Community Library, Mukwonago, WI	03/10/2023
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Hudson Museum, University of Maine, Orono, ME	03/10/2023
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Hudson Museum, University of Maine, Orono, ME	03/10/2023
Notice of Inventory Completion: Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, Division of Archaeology, Nashville, TN	03/10/2023
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Hudson Museum, University of Maine, Orono, ME	03/10/2023
Notice of Inventory Completion: University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA	03/10/2023
Agency Information Collection Activities; National Park Service Virtual Visitor Study	03/10/2023
Notice of Inventory Completion: Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, KS	03/10/2023
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA	03/10/2023
Agency Information Collection Activities; Native Youth Climate Adaptation Leadership Congress	03/10/2023
Notice of Application for Withdrawal Extension; and Public Meeting; Fort Wainwright, AK	03/10/2023
Filing of Plats of Survey, Wyoming	03/09/2023
Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records	03/09/2023
Privacy Act of 1974; Notice of New System of Records	03/09/2023
Privacy Act of 1974; System of Records	03/09/2023
HEARTH Act Approval of Mechoopda Indian Tribe of Chico Rancheria, California Leasing Ordinance	03/08/2023
Endangered and Threatened Species; Receipt of Recovery Permit Applications	03/08/2023
National Register of Historic Places; Notification of Pending Nominations and Related Actions	03/08/2023
Request for Nominations of Members To Serve on the Bureau of Indian Education Advisory Board for Exceptional Children	03/08/2023
Public Meeting of the National Geospatial Advisory Committee	03/07/2023
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Oil and Gas Well-Completion Operations	03/07/2023
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; In-Season Subsistence Salmon Fishery Catch and Effort Survey	03/06/2023
Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Initiation of 5-Year Reviews of Two Northeastern Species	03/06/2023
Request for Nominations for the Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission	03/06/2023
GX23LR000F60100; OMB Control Number 1028-0062/Renewal Agency Information Collection Activities; Industrial Minerals Surveys	03/03/2023
Agency Information Collection Activities; Plans and Information	03/03/2023
Agency Information Collection Activities; Operations in the Outer Continental Shelf for Minerals Other Than Oil, Gas, and Sulfur	03/03/2023
National Register of Historic Places; Notification of Pending Nominations and Related Actions	03/02/2023
Notice of Inventory Completion: California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA	03/02/2023
Notice of Inventory Completion: California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA	03/02/2023
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA	03/02/2023
Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural Items: California State University, Sacramento, Sacramento, CA	03/02/2023
Notice of Filing of Plat of Survey; Oklahoma	03/02/2023
Agency Information Collection Activities; Data Elements for Bureau-Funded Schools	03/02/2023
Land Acquisitions; Oneida Indian Nation, Madison and Oneida Counties, New York	03/01/2023
Endangered Wildlife; Recovery Permit Applications	03/01/2023