 BlackRock Advisors, LLC announced today that the Boards of Trustees of The BlackRock Strategic Municipal Trust NYSE: BSD, BlackRock MuniYield Investment Quality Fund NYSE: MFT, BlackRock Municipal Income Investment Trust NYSE: BBF and BlackRock Municipal Income Trust II NYSE: BLE collectively, the Funds have approved the reorganizations of each of BSD, MFT and BBF with and into BLE, with BLE continuing as the surviving Fund collectively, the Reorganizations. 