Word: interior
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...wrong. "We threw away millions," says Interior Official Richard Hite, who helped direct the project. "We screwed up. It's a national disgrace. I'm not saying that anyone acted in bad faith. But so many people being involved made it impossible to manage...
Amid lawsuits, contract disputes and turf battles among the parties involved-Amtrak, the railroads, the architects, the contractor, Congress, the Park Service, the Federal Railroad Administration and the Departments of Interior and Transportation-construction finally began in May 1974. "I'll never forget that day they put the jackhammers in the floor," says Nita Shaw, a secretary at the station for 31 years. "I had to walk over to the Capitol to calm down and stop crying...
...with train ridership rebounding as a result of rising gasoline prices and Amtrak's new Northeast-corridor service, the Interior Department agreed to turn the building over to the Department of Transportation, which wanted to turn it back into a train station. By then, however, inertia had set in. Bills to transfer control died in committee. Finally last year, Congress passed a bill, as Moynihan put it, "to return the building to its use before Congress began fumbling with it." It authorizes the Government to spend $69 million more to undo what it did. Another $9 million has been...
...bids were opened one by one, Esther Wunnicke, 60, of the Minerals Management Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior, read them aloud. The day's big winner turned out to be the Government, which is the recipient of the lease-sale money. Congressional budget officials in February had estimated that the sale might bring in $500 million or so, but when the counting stopped, 23 companies had offered $2.1 billion for the right to drill on 125 tracts covering 660,000 acres of the outer continental shelf. It was the most money ever bid at an Alaska...
...Beaufort Sea bidding is part of an Interior Department plan begun during the energy-conscious days of the Carter Administration, but sharply accelerated and expanded by Secretary James Watt. Watt's plan aims at opening a billion acres of the outer continental shelf to exploration during the next five years in the hope of finding oil that will make the U.S. less dependent on imported crude...