13. Environmental Protection Agency · Minor
Relocate the American Indian Office to the American West
Printed page 440 13. Environmental Protection Agency
“While designated a “headquarters” office with direct reporting to the Administrator, its location should be in the American West, closer to most tribal nations. This could include Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Dallas, Texas; or Denver, Colorado.”
What has happened
- Not started
Nothing moved west. The American Indian Environmental Office is still a Washington headquarters office inside the Office of International and Tribal Affairs, mail code 2610T at the Federal Triangle campus, on a page last updated 2026-08-19. EPA's space work in the window runs the other way: the FY2026 Congressional Justification's consolidation plan pulls staff *into* the Federal Triangle out of the Ronald Reagan Building and closes the Chapel Hill Human Studies Facility and the Houston laboratory. No EPA document proposes Oklahoma City, Dallas or Denver for a tribal office.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- One search covered the tribal asks on p. 440. Nothing in the Federal Register documents or White House presidential actions we keep and search, or in the reorganization addendum, names a tribal office relocation.
- The relocation of EPA offices generally is #1045, which is partial on a space-consolidation plan; that plan is about cost and square footage, not about moving offices closer to the communities they serve, and it names no tribal office.
- Action
- transfer
- Object
- American Indian Office location
- ID
- 1179