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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 ...
Office Nominee Assumed office Left office Secretary of the Interior: David Bernhardt [1] [2] January 2, 2019 April 11, 2019 April 11, 2019 January 20, 2021 Deputy Secretary of the Interior: Katharine MacGregor [3] [4] September 30, 2019 February 25, 2020 February 25, 2020 (Confirmed February 25, 2020, 58-38) [5] Solicitor of the Interior Daniel ...
On June 18, 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Touton to be the commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. [4] Hearings on her nomination were before the Senate Energy Committee on September 21, 2021. The committee favorably reported her nomination to the Senate floor on November 2, 2021.
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.
Daniel P. Beard served as the Commissioner of the United States Bureau of Reclamation, [1] [2] and as the fourth Chief Administrative Officer of the United States House of Representatives. [ 3 ] [ 4 ]
United States Bureau of Reclamation personnel (15 P) Pages in category "United States Bureau of Reclamation" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total.
The Bureau of Reclamation was granted permission to build 27 dams in the Yellowstone Basin. In addition, the Corps of Engineers and the Reclamation Bureau were both given authority to develop hydroelectric power on the Missouri River. [2] The newly merged Pick Sloan plan was accepted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944.
As of March 2015, the Bureau or Reclamation was working with the city of Durango on a recreation lease and annexation agreement, as well as a cultural resource management plan to comply with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. Additional construction at the reservoir is planned to start in the summer of 2015. [3]