Full Title: The Department of the Interior's Economic Contributors: Fiscal Year 2011
Author(s): U.S. Department of the Interior
Publisher(s): U.S. Department of the Interior
Publication Date: July 1, 2012
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Description (excerpt):
The Department of the Interior plays a substantial role in the U.S. economy, supporting over two million jobs and approximately $385 billion in economic activity for 2011. American citizens and industry, at work and at play, all benefit from Interior’s natural and cultural resource management: maintaining lands for recreation, protecting cultural and historical resources, storing and conveying water, generating power, leasing mineral rights, and providing valuable information to mineral markets.