OMB Reviewing Pruitt's Plan To Replace EPA Regions With State Offices

摘要

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is said to have submitted to the White House a plan for shuttering the agency's regional offices and replacing them with smaller offices in all 50 states, a knowledgeable source says, which could revive controversial debates over possible regional office closures that drew bipartisan push-back earlier this year. The viability of such a fundamental proposed change to the agency's office structure remains unclear, given that some members of Congress are already fighting against proposed Trump administration budget cuts at the agency, and EPA also previously dismissed the idea that plans to close regional offices are under discussion.