Reorganization of Water Resources Division - See Organizational Charts

In Reply Refer To:
ACH/Program Operations
Mail Stop 441

                                        October 5, 2000


MEMORANDUM


To:             All Water Resources Division Employees

From:           Catherine L. Hill /signed/
                Associate Chief Hydrologist for Program Operations

Subject:        Reorganization of Water Resources Division

As you know, the bureau reorganization will take effect October 8, 2000. 
Part of that reorganization includes the abolishment of my position, and 
the realignment of my staff to other parts of the organization.  Attached 
is a temporary organization chart for the Water Resources Division, 
showing where the remaining functions from my office, the Office of 
Program Operations, will be housed.  I say temporary, because the 
Information Technology/Information Management functions will be realigned 
at a later date, and other minor changes may occur as the reorganization 
plan is implemented.  The organizational chart on the first page outlines 
the overall structure for Water Resources Division (WRD), and the second 
page shows the detail for the Office of Information, which has the most 
change. 

On the first page, Gail Mallard and Steve Blanchard remain the Staff 
Assistants for Strategic Planning and Special Issues respectively.  Alice 
Sabatini is the Senior Advisor for Administrative Policy Analysis.  Alice 
is currently on a Chief Financial Officer Fellowship and is due to return 
May 2001.  Mary Jo Baedecker is the Chief Scientist for Hydrology, and 
will continue to be in charge of hydrologic research.  The discipline 
offices, (Surface Water, Ground Water, Water Quality, and National 
Water-Quality Assessment) remain the same.  The Regional Executives are 
now matrixed to the Chief Hydrologist/Associate Director for Water.  That 
is, they report to the Regional Directors, but also receive input and 
direction from the Chief Hydrologist.

The remainder of the national or headquarters functions are housed in the 
Office of Information, under Lew Wade.  Lew continues to have the 
functions he has had historically such as National Water Information 
System, Hydrologic Analysis Software Support Program, and Yucca Mountain 
Project Branch.  He now has a Deputy Chief for External Coordination, Jim 
Burton, who oversees external functions.  In addition to the functions Lew 
had in FY 2000, he will now be responsible for some functions that were 
housed in my office.  The Branch of Administrative Management Services, 
which is responsible for the Administrative Information System, will be 
under Lew's purview through fiscal year 2001 until there is a bureau 
system.  The International Water Resources Branch will be under Lew's 
purview.  My current Deputy, Steve Hammond, will now work for Lew Wade and 
will have oversight for the technical parts of my office and the financial 
analysis required by the Chief Hydrologist and his staff.  Tom Zembrzuski, 
now Chief of the Technical Operations Program, will continue to be 
responsible for instrumentation; coordination with various network 
partners such as the International Joint Commission, the National Weather 
Service, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the Water Survey of Canada; 
non-standard Joint Funding Agreements, Cooperative Research and 
Development Agreements and patents.  The Hydrologic Instrumentation 
Facility will continue to report to Tom.  There will no longer be 
oversight of the WRD Safety Program at the Associate Director level, 
however, protocol for the bureau and regional safety programs is still 
evolving. 

As we transition to a new structure, I want to assure everyone that we 
will do our best to make sure you receive the service necessary to get our 
science work done.  If you are used to calling someone that was in the 
Office of Program Operations, and do not know who else to call, please 
call them.  They will either help you or give you the name of someone that 
can help.  We will all work to make the transition as smooth as possible.

2 Attachments:  Organizational Charts

Attachment 1
Attachment 2
  







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Catherine L. Hill
Associate Chief Hydrologist 
for Program Operations       clhill@usgs.gov
441 National Center          703-648-5031 
(Phone)
U.S. Geological Survey       703-648-5295 (Fax)
Reston, Va    20192 
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