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The Bureau of Reclamation, formerly the United States Reclamation Service, is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and operation of the diversion, delivery, and storage projects that it has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant ...
The US Bureau of Reclamation Project Office Building in Montrose, Colorado is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It has also been known as the Uncompahgre Valley Water Users Association Office. The NRHP listing included five contributing buildings. [1] It was built by contractor J.J. Kewin. [2]
The major employers at the center include the United States Department of the Interior (and its Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Reclamation, and United States Geological Survey) and the GSA. Special facilities at the center include the National Ice Core Laboratory .
The Bureau of Reclamation Security Response Force (USBR SRF), is the federal security guard force of the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR), part of the United States Department of the Interior (DOI). [1] The Security Response Force replaced the former Hoover Dam Police, in 2017.
Brenda Wren Burman is an American attorney and government official who served as commissioner of the United States Bureau of Reclamation from 2017 to 2021. Prior to assuming that position, she served as director of water strategy at the Salt River Project.
Bureau of Reclamation regions. Following is a complete list of the approximately 340 dams owned by the United States Bureau of Reclamation as of 2008. [1]The Bureau was established in July 1902 as the "United States Reclamation Service" and was renamed in 1923.
The Refuge Water Supply Program (RWSP) is administered by the United States Department of the Interior jointly by the Bureau of Reclamation and Fish and Wildlife Service and tasked with acquiring a portion and delivering a total of 555,515 acre feet (AF) of water annually to 19 specific protected wetland areas in the Central Valley of California as mandated with the passing of the Central ...
On June 17, 1902, Congress passed the Newlands Reclamation Act, thus creating what is now known as the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR). The first of five projects created from the Reclamation Act was the Truckee–Carson Project, later renamed the Newlands Project, as Representative Newlands had been the bills main figurehead. [5]