Energy Bill brings tangible benefits to Glenwood Springs

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, CO—Bureau of Land Management’s Glenwood Springs Field Office is named in the Energy Policy Act of 2005 as one of seven Pilot Project offices selected to implement improvements in coordinating, processing and monitoring oil and gas use authorizations. The Bill establishes teams to examine how to make federal energy permitting more effective while maintaining environmental protection.

Additionally, the Field Office will look at how to gain more efficiencies in permitting operations. The workload in the Glenwood Springs Field Office is nearly ten times what it was five years ago. The Energy Bill will result in adding 16 full time positions to the office to increase the staff’s ability to manage the existing and projected workload increases.

The Glenwood Springs Field Office could have as many as seven Master Development Plans under environmental review in the next two years. “This represents a tremendous workload,” said Jamie Connell, Glenwood Springs Field Manager, “and it is important that we maintain our capacity to conduct our routine business, as well as perform the in-depth study required in the environmental analysis process.”

“We’ll begin hiring these positions as soon as possible, in fact, announcements for numerous positions are on the street now,” Connell said. Some of several positions at the Glenwood Springs Field Office include: petroleum engineering technicians, natural resource specialists, biologists, botanist, hydrologist, archeologists, a recreation specialist, realty specialists, and a legal assistant.

For more information on applying for the BLM positions, go to www.usajobs.gov and search on keyword “BLM.”

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