The Bureau of Land Management is reassigning the directors of the Alaska, Colorado and New Mexico state offices to positions at other federal agencies as part of an Interior Department reorganization that sources say is only beginning.
Alaska Director Bud Cribley, Colorado Director Ruth Welch and New Mexico Director Amy Lueders are among as many as 50 BLM and other Interior career officials notified this month that they are being transferred to different agencies or other positions within BLM, multiple sources with knowledge of the moves told E&E News.
The Senior Executive Service officials were told of the transfers earlier this month and given 15 days, or until Wednesday, to either accept the transfers, retire or resign (Greenwire, June 16). Additional transfer notices will be coming as soon as this week, sources said.
BLM and Interior Department officials have declined to provide many details about the ongoing reorganization effort, or the transfers of SES employees to other federal agencies.
But reassigning three state directors represents a major administrative change for the agency. The trio at issue oversee 94 million acres of some of the most resource-rich and environmentally sensitive lands managed by the agency.
It's not clear whether anyone has been named to replace the outgoing state directors...
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Hope they all enjoy re-purposing used staples and paper clips in their new endeavors. soapweed
And may the door hit them where their brains are at when they leave...
I'm disappointed they are being "shuffled" to another government job. "Promoting up and out of the way" has long been a tactic of Federal Government management to move incompetent federal employees from programs they have botched, into another federal government job, instead of sending them down the road kicking their lunch box. And, we, the taxpayers still have to support the sorry, incompetent, fools into retirement, and beyond! Pretty silly.....
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