Weekly Roundup Archive: WR 8/5/23

8/7 - EPA Releases Environmental Justice Toolkit for Lead Paint Enforcement Programs (EPA; direct to toolkit)

8/8 - Census Bureau Releases International Population Estimates and Projections (Census; direct to IDB page)

8/8 - New fire emissions inventory available (climate.gov; direct to OA article)

8/8 - US Department of Labor announces final rule to modernize Davis-Bacon Act (DOL; see also, WH fact sheet)

8/8 - Recent Updates From our Office (NARA)

8/8 - NIST Drafts Major Update to Its Widely Used Cybersecurity Framework (NIST; direct to framework page)

8/9 - Biden-Harris Administration Launches National Dashboard to Track Heat-Related Illness (HHS; direct to dashboard page)

8/9 - OGIS Publishes 2022 Compliance Self-Assessment (NARA; direct to report page)

8/9 - New Records Released – 2023 Third Quarter Release List (NARA; note – .pdf & .xlsx links currently point to error pages)

8/9 - NASA Software Catalog Offers Free Programs for Earth Science, More (NASA; direct to catalog page)

8/9 - NGA releases new global population data (NGA; direct to website)

8/10 - Provisional Suicide Deaths in the United States, 2022 (CDC; direct to data page)

8/10 - 2022 Geographic Mobility Tables Available from the Current Population Survey (Census; direct to data page)

8/10 - Director of National Intelligence Avril D. Haines Releases the 2023 National Intelligence Strategy for the Intelligence Community (ODNI; direct to strategy)

8/11 - Biden-Harris Administration Announces Up To $1.2 Billion For Nation’s First Direct Air Capture Demonstrations in Texas and Louisiana (DOE) 

8/11 - Appointment of a Special Counsel (DOJ; see also, AG statement)

8/11 - National Museum of African Art Releases “Heroes” Publication (SI)

8/11 - Understanding the Economics of Investing in America: A Collection of Resources (WH)

Information below is from congress.gov. Date listed is date signed into law, and the description is an abbreviated version of bill summary available on that website.

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8/7 - H.R.4004, United States-Taiwan Initiative on 21st-Century Trade First Agreement Implementation Act - expresses the approval of Congress for the 6/1/23 agreement regarding trade between the U.S. and Taiwan, and imposes requirements on the negotiations of certain further trade agreements.

See full weekly list of hearings on congress.gov.

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None this week

8/7 - Audit of the Military Service Recruiting Organizations’ Efforts to Screen Applicants for Extremist and Criminal Gang Behavior (DOD)

8/8 - Investigative Summary: Allegations of Ethics Violations by an FEC Commissioner (FEC)

8/8 - Sensitive Business and Individual Tax Account Information Stored on Microfilm Cannot Be Located (TIGTA)

8/11 - FSA’s Outreach to Individuals in Underserved Communities (ED)

8/9 - The Intelligence Community’s Foreign Malign Influence Center (FMIC) (CRS; see also, FMIC website)

8/10 - Federal Student Loans: Return to Repayment (CRS)

8/10 - Procedures for Declassifying Intelligence of Public Interest (CRS)

8/11 - August 2023 Wildfires in Hawaii (CRS)

8/11 - Telework: Growth Supported Economic Activity During the Pandemic, but Future Impacts Are Uncertain (GAO; see also, 2022 ATUS summary)

8/7 - State Department shutters AI-based project that aimed to forecast violence and COVID-19 (via FedScoop, with link to source)

8/7 - The NIH ices a research project. Is it self-censorship? (via GovExec)

8/7 - Judge orders airline lawyers to take extremist advocacy group's "religious-liberty training" (via LawDork, with link to source document)

8/7 - ‘12 years of hell’: Indian boarding school survivors share their stories (via Washington Post)

8/8 - A Proclamation on Establishment of the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni-Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument (WH; see also, fact sheet)

8/9 - Emergency Management Hub released (Census; see also, Data Tools and Apps page)

8/9 - Executive Order on Addressing United States Investments in Certain National Security Technologies and Products in Countries of Concern (WH; see also, WH statement, with link to Treas fact sheet)

8/10 - Clarence Thomas’ 38 Vacations: The Other Billionaires Who Have Treated the Supreme Court Justice to Luxury Travel (via ProPublica, with Sokol letter)

8/11 - National security panel reviewing secretive land buys near key Air Force base (via CNN)

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Trump classified documents search warrant/indictment:

8/8 - Judge Asks Why Special Counsel Jack Smith Has Two Grand Juries Investigating Trump in Docs Case (via The Messenger)

8/9 - Records Concerning the Search Warrant Executed at Mar-a-Lago on August 8, 2022, Interim Response (August 22, 2022 - September 12, 2022) (DOJ FOIA)

8/9 - Communications External to the United States Government Relating to a Search Warrant Carried Out at Mar-a-Lago on August 8, 2022, Interim Response (August 10, 2022 - August 12, 2022) (DOJ FOIA)

8/9 - Trump requests to review classified documents at Mar-a-Lago ahead of trial (via The Guardian, with link to source document)

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Trump 2020 election/January 6 indictment:

8/8 - Previously Secret Memo Laid Out Strategy for Trump to Overturn Biden’s Win (via NYT, with source document)

8/9 - Special counsel obtained search warrant for Donald Trump’s Twitter account (via Politico, with link to source document)

8/10 - Special counsel proposes Jan. 2, 2024, trial for Trump on election charges (via Politico, with link to source document)

8/11 - Trump lawyers, special counsel square off in court on limits for pretrial evidence in Jan. 6 indictment (via Law & Crime; see also, protective order issued 8/11 via CourtListener)