EPA Implements Program Office Reorganizations, Amid Uncertain ORD RIFs

EPA has fully implemented its restructuring plans for most of its offices, overhauling the air, land, enforcement, chemicals and administrator’s office largely as planned, while continuing to finalize its reorganization plans for the water office and two administrative offices. However, the centerpiece of EPA’s reorganization plan -- eliminating the Office of Research and Development (ORD), scattering some of its workers across the agency and firing the rest -- is newly uncertain, with language in a stopgap spending bill barring reductions...