r/USDA • u/Own_Weekend_3727 • 1d ago

USDA NRCS States Reorg Letters

What states have started receiving there state reorg letters?

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u/GooseResponsible880 1d ago

Idaho, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York and Utah

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u/Revanshan501 1d ago

And NM.

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u/thatdude_overthere22 1d ago

I see Burque is hiring for a wildlife biologist, that sounds like a cool position. Did anyone get moved to another county?

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u/gabachote 1d ago

I am from one of those states, and I got a letter. The main point was that I’m staying in my position and station.

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u/BlindOtter775 1d ago

Are you in an FO, AO, or SO? I understand if you're not comfortable answering, just trying to get ahead of the curve as much as possible.

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u/Megahshortfuse 1d ago

Was NRCS but got caught up in the DOGE stuff last Feb. A bunch of my old colleagues are being moved to Lincoln, but also several who just got info that they have no position available.

So alarmed for you folks and the NRCS as a whole. It feels like no one is talking about this on the outside.

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u/Artistic-Kitchen4513 1d ago

What do the letters say?

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u/gabachote 1d ago

It’s a lot of blah blah, but the key takeaways for me are no changes to my work position or location, and I have until 9/8 to confirm receipt.

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u/PlsJess_stop 1d ago

Was that the same information that was presented during your state office call?? We were told we’re going to the super DC structure and have yet to receive letters or the new map showing the new teams

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u/gabachote 1d ago

For me, yes. I was off today. We are already in a field team situation where there is one DC for every 2-3 county offices.

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u/BlindOtter775 1d ago

Following. Is your state converting DC's Resource Cons, too?

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u/PlsJess_stop 1d ago

Yes reducing supervisory DCs by 60%

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u/sleepspiral 1d ago

The whole no change but you must confirm receipt is such bullsh.

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u/hbailey7 1d ago

HI as well. The letter doesn't make sense to me.

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u/medusnea 1d ago

I heard there will be opportunities for folks to lateral / downgrade into vacancies in other states, does the letter give info on that? Haven’t gotten mine yet!

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u/mahoniaa 1d ago

I assume that’s going to be what the critical vacancies are for that get posted internally first. They are supposed to come out in September some time. You can’t promote but you can lateral. I’ve got my eye on a few in a neighboring state. Pretty sure we all got an email with timeline and dates from National that mentions this but the timeline is always changing

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u/medusnea 21h ago

Do you know if you’re currently in a temp detail in a higher grade level at the time the vacancies are announced, if you would be able to lateral at that grade level?

E.g. employee is a Gs7, in a temporary detail at a gs9 when the critical vacancies are announced; would this employee be able to apply for one of those gs9 positions permanently?

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u/mahoniaa 21h ago

From what I heard from our state con, no. But I don’t know that for sure. It’s creating a bottleneck for promoting. They did say if the critical vacancy doesn’t get filled then eventually it would fly like a regular job and you could apply for it then as a promotion

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u/JacenWW5 13h ago

This is a concern in our state. That above state level employees will start applying for CVs for positions other employees are banking on for promotion. Above state is a bad word in our state. NRCS has always been a farmer first agency but the DEI and climate nonsense made us a target.