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Stakeholders say federal staffing cuts threaten Western water, power reliability
Summary
Witnesses and lawmakers at a House Natural Resources subcommittee hearing warned that recent staffing reductions and office closures at federal water and power agencies are degrading forecasting, project delivery and grid reliability across the Western United States.
Witnesses at a House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries oversight hearing warned that staffing cuts and office closures at federal water and power agencies are undermining the delivery of water services, hydropower operations and disaster forecasting across the West.
The concern was voiced by multiple witnesses and subcommittee members who said layoffs and local office closures at agencies such as the Bureau of Reclamation, the Power Marketing Administrations and NOAA are already reducing technical capacity and hampering responses to drought, wildfire and storm threats.
Representative Hoyle criticized the…
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