Bureau of Land Management to move out West from D.C. - Entrepreneur Generations

The Bureau of Land Management is going to move its office from Washington, D.C. to somewhere in the Western U.S., Deputy Interior Secretary David Bernhardt said last week, speaking by hookup from the White House to attendees at a Western-issues forum at Colorado Mesa University. Most of the 245 million acres the bureau manages is in 12 states in the West, Gary Harmon reports for the Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction, Colorado.

Colorado Republicans Rep. Scott Tipton and Sen. Cory Gardner, both present at the forum, hailed the announcement; both have offered companion bills to move the BLM headquarters to a Western state. Though the site for the new headquarters hasn't been selected, both have asked the BLM to move to Grand Junction.

The agency has allocated money in its 2019 budget to begin the process of selecting a new location and moving. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is also looking for ways to reorganize other agencies with land-management responsibilities, such as the Fish and Wildlife Service and Bureau of Reclamation, Bernhardt said.

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