"USBR" redirects here. For the network of long-distance cycling routes, see United States Bicycle Route System.
Not to be confused with Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation, and Enforcement.
Government agency
Bureau of Reclamation
Agency overview
Formed
1902
Type
Office
Headquarters
Main Interior Building Washington, D.C.
Employees
5,425[1]
Annual budget
$1.17 billion[2]
Agency executives
M. Camille Calimlim Touton, Commissioner
(Vacant), Deputy Commissioner
Parent agency
United States Department of the Interior
Website
www.usbr.gov
The Bureau of Reclamation, formerly the United States Reclamation Service, is a federal agency under the U.S. Department of the Interior, which oversees water resource management, specifically as it applies to the oversight and operation of the diversion, delivery, and storage projects that it has built throughout the western United States for irrigation, water supply, and attendant hydroelectric power generation. It is currently the U.S.'s largest wholesaler of water, bringing water to more than 31 million people, and providing one in five Western farmers with irrigation water for 10 million acres of farmland, which produce 60% of the nation's vegetables and 25% of its fruits and nuts. The Bureau is also the second largest producer of hydroelectric power in the western U.S.[3]
On June 17, 1902, in accordance with the Reclamation Act, Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock established the U.S. Reclamation Service within the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). The new Reclamation Service studied potential water development projects in each western state with federal lands. Revenue from sale of federal lands was the initial source of the program's funding. Because Texas had no federal lands, it did not become a Reclamation state until 1906, when Congress passed a law including it in the provisions of the Reclamation Act.
^"Bureau of Reclamation Quickfacts". under "TOPIC: Employees". U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. 3 May 2012. Retrieved 1 October 2012.
^Budget Justifications and Performance Information, Fiscal Year 2013(PDF). U.S. Department of the Interior. 2012. p. 11.
^"Bureau of Reclamation – About Us". Archived from the original on 2016-02-24. Retrieved 2016-02-16.
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