The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) national headquarters will officially be relocated back to Washington, D.C., by next September, but many senior officials will be required to move by this December.
E&E News reported that an email from BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning told staff that BLM plans to fully staff the Grand Junction, CO, office, which was assigned as the new headquarters by the Trump administration. However, headquarters employees joined the National Treasury Employees Union in May, which could complicate moving plans, according to E&E News.
“You all know that the Bureau is still in the process of rebuilding from the loss of hundreds of staff and the organizational disruption of the last several years,” Stone-Manning wrote in her email.
“We are doing so in part by moving critical positions back to Washington, D.C., and in part by anchoring a headquarters presence in Grand Junction.”
