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The Obama Administration: May 1-16, 2010

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United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) would host a National Rural Summit, on Thursday, June 3, 2010, in Hillsboro, Missouri, to discuss the future of rural America. Source

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the first-ever national rules to ensure the safe disposal and management of coal ash from coal-fired power plants. The rules were to ensure that protective controls, such as liners and groundwater monitoring, are in place at new landfills to protect groundwater and human health. Existing surface impoundments would also require liners, with strong incentives to close the impoundments and transition to safer landfills, which store coal ash in dry form. Environmentally safe and desirable forms of recycling coal ash, known as beneficial uses, were to be promoted. Source

United States Attorney General Eric Holder addressed the May 1, 2010 Times Square attempted bombing at a press conference. Transcript

Day467/May5th/Wednesday: The President met with United States Senator Jon Kyl in the Oval Office of the White House. Source

The President met with United States Senator Orin Hatch in the Oval Office. Source

The President delivered remarks in the State Dining Room of the White House and signed the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act of 2010, which was designed to improve health care services for veterans and expand caregiver benefits and training. Transcript Video The Act:

(1) Provides veterans' caregivers with training, counseling, supportive services, and a living stipend; provides health care to the family caregivers of injured veterans under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Department of Veterans Affairs (CHAMPVA) and requires independent oversight of the caregiver program

(2) Requires the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to report to the U.S. Congress on its comprehensive assessment of the barriers in providing health care to the 1.8 million women veterans' currently receiving VA health care and it requires VA to train its mental health providers in the treatment of military sexual trauma. It also mandates that VA implement pilot programs to provide child care to women veterans receiving medical care and provide readjustment services to women veterans

(3) Expands VA's authority to provide incentives so that VA can recruit and retain high-quality health care providers; provides travel reimbursements for veterans receiving treatment at VA facilities and grants for veterans service organizations transporting veterans residing in highly rural areas

(4) Authorizes the Secretary to utilize non-VA facilities for the care and treatment of veterans suffering from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) when the Secretary: (a) is unable to provide such treatment or services at the frequency or for the duration necessary; or (b) determines that it is optimal to the veteran's recovery and rehabilitation

(5) Establishes and increases eligibility for Iraq and Afghanistan service members, including National Guard and Reserve members, to receive readjustment counseling, and requires VA to conduct a study on veteran suicides

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