Prior to this, BLM sent 159 letters to employees informing them that they would move to their offices in the west as the Public Land Office decentralized their DC office and opened a new headquarters in Grand Junction, Colorado.
The controversial plan will leave only 61 of BLM's 10,000 Washington, DC employees.
The legislators in Washington, DC, all Democrats wrote to the House of Representatives, Betty McCollum (Ministry of the Interior), which is responsible for handling the budget of the Ministry of the Interior, including BLM.
In a letter led by Del, Congressmen wrote: "There are only a small number of employees who have been transferred to choose to move. We are very worried that the relocation will be more and more unfavorable to supervision, not to mention protecting public land from oil. And the infringement of natural gas interests." Eleanor Holmes Norton (DD.C.).
Since August, the Ministry of the Interior and appropriators have been arguing whether to fund this initiative.
The Ministry of the Interior said it had been allowed to redeploy $5 million from last year’s bill for this action, which was proposed by legislators.
Since then, the House and Senate funders have banned the use of funds in next year's bill to promote BLM action, a feature that Washington DC legislators hope does not exist in this spending plan.
They wrote: "We urge you to ban the use of funds under any authority to relocate the Land Authority." He added that the move "is designed to damage public land and limit Congressional supervision."
McCollum did not immediately respond to the request for comment.
The appropriation party is still negotiating the final spending plan.
The House Democrat’s assistant told Hill: “We are continuing negotiations on the subcommittee’s appropriations, which is a necessary prerequisite for the commencement of a personal appropriation bill.” “Unfortunately, the Senate Republican Party asked for funding for the waste wall that President Trump was wasting. The requirements make distribution negotiations more difficult."
