EPA Plan To Merge OARM-OEI Raises Concerns Over Clashing Missions

摘要

EPA's plan to merge its Office of Environmental Information (OEI) back into its Office of Administration and Resource Management (OARM) is prompting concerns from a former top official, who cautions that any merger will have to address significant differences between two offices that have very different roles."It strikes me, as a former political head of OARM, the biggest challenge for the new unit - if there is a merger -would be putting two different kinds of culture together," says Karl Brooks, who served as OARM's acting assistant administrator (AA) in the final year of the Obama administration and is now a clinical professor at the University of Texas at Austin's public affairs school.