"The Interior Department would take over part of the Army Corps of Engineers' civil works program under a wildly ambitious federal government reorganization plan proposed by the Trump administration today.

The plan also would merge the Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries within Interior, among many other proposals.

"By merging agencies that handle similar, if not the same, functions we would be able to greatly improve services to the American people and better protect the land and wildlife under our care," Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said."

Michael Doyle reports for Greenwire June 21, 2018. [2]