The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is planning to eliminate a national office and fire up to 75 percent of its employees, according to newly reviewed documents.
An EPA reduction-in-force plan proposes the elimination of the Office of Research and Development as a national office, according to Democratic staff members on the U.S. House of Representatives Science Committee.
The agency plans to assess which employees are needed to carry out its responsibilities, the documents said, according to the staffers.
“Currently, the Office of Research and Development has 1,540 positions … of which we anticipate a majority (50–75 percent) will not be retained,” they stated.
Some of the positions that are at present within the office would, if the office is eliminated, be moved to other parts of the EPA….