# Presentation: 817228

## Key Players

## Slide 2

## Executive Branch

## U.S. Geological Survey

## U.S. Geological Survey

- Office of Budget and Performance

## Office of Budget and Performance

**NORTON**

- Coordinator

*Water*

**COX**

**LIBERATORE**

- 300s

- ABC

**MOORE, G.**

***Office of Budget and Performance***

- Staff Assistant

- Staff Assistant

-    Scorecard

## USGS Offices Often Confused

- Office of Budget & Performance (OBP)

- Administrative Policy & Services (APS)
- Office of Financial Management
- Office of Fiscal Services

## U.S. Department of the Interior

##  U.S. Department of the Interior

*** ******U.S. Department of the Interior***

**USGS**

**ASSISTANT SECRETARY**
**Policy, Mgmt & Budget /CFO **
- Tom Weimer

**ASSISTANT SECRETARY**
**Water and Science **
- Mark Limbaugh

**DEPUTY SECRETARY**
- Lynn Scarlett

**SECRETARY**
**Dirk Kempthorne**

## U.S. Department of the Interior – PMB 

***U.S. Department of the Interior – PMB ***

**ASSISTANT SECRETARY**
**Policy, Mgmt & Budget /CFO**** **
- Tom Weimer

## U.S. Department of the Interior – PMB 

**Deputy Asst Secretary****Performance, Accountability****& Human Resources**

**Deputy Asst Secretary****Law Enforcement****& Security**

**Deputy Asst Secretary****Insular Affairs**

**Deputy Chief****Human Capital Officer**

**Office of****Human Resources Policy**

**Office of ****Civil Rights**

**Office of Occupational****Health & Safety**

**Office of Collaborative****Action & Dispute Resolution**

**Office of Law****Enforcement & Security**

**Office of****Insular Affairs**

**Office of Budget**John Trezise/Pam Haze

**Office of Planning**** & Performance Mgt**Rich Beck

***U.S. Department of the Interior – PMB ***

**Deputy Asst Secretary****Business Management ****& Wildland Fire**

**Deputy Asst Secretary****Policy & International ****Affairs**

## U.S. Department of the Interior – Water & Science

- Mark Limbaugh             Assistant Secretary
- Tim Petty		Principal Deputy Assistant
- Jason Peltier		Deputy Assistant Secretary
- P. Patrick Leahy	Acting Director, USGS
- John Keys		Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation
- Olivia Ferriter		Chief of Staff
- Tara Conrad		Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary
- Brenda Burman	Counselor to the Assistant Secretary
- Brenda Barnes	Program Assistant to the Deputy Assistant Secretary
- Carrie Crowell		Executive Assistant to the Assistant Secretary
- LaRoy Williams	Program Support Assistant
- Hardy Pearce		Science Advisor to the Assistant Secretary
- Hardy Pearce		USGS Liaison
- Bruce Moore		Bureau of Reclamation Liaison
- Ronald Johnston	Program Director, Central Utah Project Completion 			     Act (CUPCA

## Office of Management and Budget

## OMB — Organization

## OMB — Interior Branch

- Janet Irwin
- Jason Freihage
- Mike Hickey
- Ben Burnett
- Craig Crutchfield
- Ann Kendrall
- Jim Kazel
- Craig Harper

- Chief
***USGS, ****OIA*
- FWS
- BLM
- NPS
- BIA (School Const.) OST
- BIA
- Scorekeeper, MMS, OSM

## Legislative Branch

## House Committees of Interest to USGS

**Appropriations**
**	****  **Interior, Environment and Related Agencies
**Resources****	**
**	****  **Energy and Minerals
- 	  Water and Power
**Science**
**	****  **Energy
- 	  Environment, Technology and Standards
- 	  Research
- 	  Space and Aeronautics
**Government Reform**
- 	   Federal Workforce and Agency Organization
- 	   Information Technology

## Senate Committees of Interest to USGS

**Appropriations**
**	****  **Interior and Related Agencies
**Energy and Natural Resources**
**	****  **Energy
** ****Commerce, Science, and Transportation**
**	****  **Science and Space
- 	  Disaster Prevention and Prediction
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## Committees Often Confused

**Budget Committee:**
- 	Prepares the “Budget Resolution” that sets out a broad blueprint for the Congress with respect to the total levels of revenues and spending for the government as a whole.
**Financial Services Committee:**
**	**Oversight role over the entire financial services industry, including securities, insurance, banking, housing industries, treasury, SEC, etc.
**Appropriations Committee:   **
- 	Legislative jurisdiction over appropriations bills, which provide funding for government programs

## Appropriations Subcommittees:    House and Senate

- 10 House - Interior, Environment & Related Agencies
- 12 Senate - Interior & Related Agencies
- Until last year, there was a 1-to-1 match.

- “No money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law”
- US Constitution Article I, Section 9, Clause 7

## House Appropriations

|               Republicans |            Democrats |
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|       Charles H. Taylor, NC, Chairman      Zach Wamp, TN      John E. Peterson, PA      Don Sherwood, PA      Ernest J. Istook, OK      Robert B. Aderholt, AL      John T. Doolittle, CA      Michael K. Simpson, ID
      Jerry Lewis, CA, Ex-officio (Non-voting) | Norman Dicks, WA, Ranking Minority
James P. Moran, VAMaurice D. Hinchey, NYJohn W. Olver, MA
Alan B. Mollohan, WV
David Obey, WI, Ex-officio (Non-voting)

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**Interior, Environment, & Related Agencies Subcommittee Members**

- Chris Topik

## Senate Appropriations

|           Republicans |         Democrats |
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| Conrad Burns, MT, Chairman Ted Stevens, AKThad Cochran, MS
Pete Domenici, NM
Robert Bennett, UTJudd Gregg, NH
Larry Craig, ID 
Wayne Allard, CO 
 | Byron Dorgan, ND, Ranking MinorityRobert C. Byrd, WV
Patrick Leahy, VTHarry Reid, NV 
Dianne Feinstein, CA
Barbara Mikulski, MDHerb Kohl, WI  |
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**Interior and Related Agencies Subcommittee Members**

- Ginny James

## The Art of Balancing Priorities