On Thursday, July 24, 2025, a Trump appointee announced a major reorganization of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) (Rollins 2025). The plan includes winding down operations at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) over a few years and then “vacating” the property. The research center lies adjacent to the northern boundary of Greenbelt.

The plan also includes vacating and selling four large office buildings in BARC. If the entire Department-wide reorganization were to proceed, then about 2,600 USDA employees in Maryland and DC would be told to move across the country.

On July 24, the Secretary of Agriculture released a 5-minute video that summarized the proposed reorganization. Three minutes in, the Secretary stated: “In the coming months, where applicable, my team will be notifying your offices with more information about relocation.”

The Secretary’s memorandum and the associated video were merely statements of policy, which means they don’t spell out the details.1 Nonetheless, other federal reorganization activities have gone from initial announcement to execution with unusual speed this year.2 Perhaps for this reason, the just-announced USDA reorganization is causing alarm in Congress, trade associations, and with the public.

Why BARC matters

The USDA describes BARC as the Department’s largest research facility and the most diversified center for agricultural research in the world.4 The center covers over 10 square miles.5 The USDA’s Agricultural Research Service manages most of BARC, but other agencies conduct research and have offices there too.6

The USDA’s George Washington Carver office complex occupies four buildings in BARC that are visible from the Capital Beltway. These buildings contain 350,000 square feet of office space.7

The Agriculture Department has conducted research at BARC since 1910. In recent years, the federal government has invested millions of dollars to renovate and expand some buildings8 and to demolish others that it no longer needs.9

BARC is a good neighbor. It provides internships to high school students and allows the public to bike and walk along the center’s many roads that pass through fields, forests, rolling hills, and wetlands. County and state governments consider BARC and the adjacent Patuxent Research Refuge to be priority conservation land.10

Decades ago, the Maryland Historical Trust determined that BARC was a historic district eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, in part because of the national significance of the research conducted there.11 Most of the buildings were constructed in the 1930s and 1940s.

In terms of economic significance, BARC is minutes away from NOAA offices, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Defense assets, law-enforcement facilities, and the flagship campus of the University of Maryland.12 For this reason, BARC is a contributing element to an “innovation corridor.” 13

What was left out of the July 24 memorandum?

The July 24 Secretary’s memorandum does one thing: it invokes the Agriculture Department’s mission to justify a sequence of actions. The first paragraph of the memorandum states its purpose: to increase the Department’s usefulness to the American people and to reduce the cost of delivering these services. The proposed actions include the relocation of all BARC employees to other parts of the country and the selling of four large office buildings at BARC. See the section called “Principle 2” in the Secretary’s memorandum.

The Secretary’s memorandum does not provide evidence that the outlined actions are the most effective way to achieve the stated purpose of reducing costs. The federal government has long had to lease commercial office space even though it would generally cost less to house workers in government-owned office buildings.14  The July 24 Secretary’s memorandum does not explain how selling four large USDA office buildings at BARC makes sense when many of the area’s federal workers are still in leased office space.15

Another inconsistency is that the July 24 memorandum claims that the proposed actions would bring the USDA “closer to the customer.” Yet, the memorandum proposes closing many USDA’s offices across the country, relocating these employees to five “hub” cities. The “Principle 3” section of the memorandum mentions closing all area offices of the Agricultural Research Service, the 12 Agricultural Statistics Service offices, two regions of the Food and Nutrition Service, and all nine regional offices of the Forest Service. Such consolidation would tend to increase the geographic separation of USDA employees from the public it serves.

The July 24 memorandum does not appear to include all of the necessary steps to make the proposed actions lawful. Some elected officials have raised this issue.16 Public Law 100-202, passed in 1988, may be relevant. This law established that an act of Congress would be required to authorize any sale of BARC property.17 The USDA can’t reassign employees and immediately sell the four office buildings of BARC’s George Washington Carver Center.

Also missing from the July 24 memorandum was compelling evidence that the announced USDA reorganization had been more carefully planned than reorganizations and workforce reductions carried out by the Trump administration so far this year.18 Issues with those earlier actions led a federal court to issue an injunction forbidding further federal reorganizations until the court could decide a case before it.19 Back in April, the USDA appeared ready to announce its reorganization plan, but it respected the court’s injunction and waited until July 24 to publish the Secretary’s memorandum.20

What was the immediate response to the July 24 memorandum?

Senators who represent states that would gain jobs from the relocation of DC-area USDA employees praised the reorganization plan.21 But these Senators’ July 24 press releases lacked hard evidence that the country would benefit from the proposed USDA reorganization.

Other elected officials, experts, and farm organizations were more critical of the proposed reorganization. Arkansas Republican John Boozman, the chair of the Senate’s Agriculture Committee, expressed reservations:

The best way to serve our agriculture community is by working together, so it’s disappointing USDA didn’t share its plans in advance of this announcement. I will be thoroughly examining the details of the proposal and look forward to learning more from Secretary Rollins and holding a hearing about the reorganization. (Red-TV)

Two trade organizations that represent farmers expressed concern that such a major restructuring might reduce the USDA’s ability to serve farmers.22 A commentary published on July 28 on the Government Executive news site claims that “Farmers, ranchers and rural communities will suffer as a result of this proposed reorganization.”

Based on the Trump administration’s track record with farmers, these concerns may be warranted.23 Since the inauguration in January, there have been extraordinary delays in dispersing Congressionally approved farming aid. Frequent and aggressive ICE raids have contributed to farmers having trouble finding workers. News reports have claimed that a shortage of farm labor and Trump’s trade wars have contributed to twice as many United States farms going bankrupt during the first quarter of 2025 than during the same time last year.24

The proposed Department-wide USDA reorganization is much bigger than its impact on BARC because the USDA does more than just support farmers. For example, the USDA also runs the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). The national association of WIC providers is deeply troubled by the proposed USDA reorganization: the USDA “relocating key staff and dismantling regional offices will sever decades of institutional knowledge, weaken quality control, delay critical services.”

The American Federation of Government Employees union stated that the planning for the USDA reorganization was rushed with “little thought into the consequences this will have on the American people who rely on the services our members deliver.” According to the union, BARC is “the crown jewel of the agency’s award-winning research” (AFGE, July 28, 2025).

The first shot at Congressional Oversight

On July 30, 2025, the Senate held a hearing on the USDA reorganization plan. The only witness was Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, Alexander Vaden. The meeting ended without Vaden proving that BARC researchers and other USDA employees in the DC region would be likely to provide better service to farmers if these employees were moved from DC to “hub” cities, as envisioned in July 24 Secretary’s memorandum.

On July 30, Vaden pointed out repeatedly that USDA employees, if relocated to one of the five hub cities, would be living geographically closer to some farmers. His statement is true, but it is also true that the relocation would increase the distance separating these employees from farmers in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York. Agriculture in these states contributes $30 billion annually to the United States’ economy.25

Furthermore, the hub cities are a long drive away from most farms in the country. Would one really expect the somewhat shorter distance between USDA employees and farmers to noticeably increase the quality of service? The great majority of farmers would still be interacting with these USDA employees by phone or email. To illustrate this point, the table below states the time it takes to fly from hub cities to California, the state with by far the greatest agricultural output.26

Compared with an administrative employee, a BARC researcher’s physical proximity to an individual farm or ranch matters even less.

Scientists perform their job well when they focus on their research, work in fully equipped, established labs, and swap ideas with other researchers in related fields.  The DC area has a critical mass of researchers in many fields, and a Tier-1 research university just 4 miles from BARC.

If a BARC researcher discovered a cure for a plant or animal disease, no farmer would measure the significance of this discovery by taking out a map and measuring the miles separating BARC from his or her farm.

During the July 30 Senate hearing, Deputy Secretary Vaden argued that the hub cities named in the July 30 Secretary’s memorandum are inherently better places to live than the DC area because homes prices are lower in the hub cities. He claimed that lower home prices lead to higher-quality people working for the USDA and that better employees mean farmers receive better service.27

Vaden’s justification for relocating BARC jobs falls apart because home prices are actually higher in three of the five hub cities named in the July 24 Secretary’s memorandum compared with home prices in Prince George’s County where BARC is located. And in the two hub cities with lower home prices, the federal locality pay adjustment is lower, meaning BARC employees relocated there would take an automatic 11% pay cut. Such a pay cut would have the effect of making home ownership more difficult for them in their new city.28 The table above provides home-price data from Zillow.com.29

Furthermore, many families need two incomes, so being able own a home may depend on the income of the spouse who does not work for USDA. In the hub cities with home prices lower than Prince George’s County, average incomes are also lower. None of the five hub cities proposed in the July 24 memorandum are more affordable than BARC’s current location, based on the ratio of mortgage cost to median income calculated by county.30

At the July 30 hearing, senators said that Congress has a role to play helping the Agriculture Department create a reorganization plan. They suggested that Congress might also have to allocate funds before any such plan could be carried out or even grant the Department additional powers before it would be able to execute a reorganization.31

Deputy Secretary Vaden envisioned a more limited role for Congress. Vaden said that the USDA would follow a statutory requirement of allowing 30 days for Congress and the public to give the Department feedback on the announced reorganization. He also said that the 30-day period started when the Secretary’s memorandum was published on July 24.32 Vaden did not identify the law that established this 30-day period.

What might happen next?

The events of the first Trump administration show one way that the just-announced USDA reorganization might play out. The first Trump administration (Jan. 2017 to Jan. 2021) carried out a smaller-scale Agriculture Department reorganization that appears to follow the same playbook as this year’s Department-wide reorganization.

In 2019, the USDA told all employees of two of its agencies to relocate outside the DC area or lose their jobs. About 75% of these employees resigned, and it took two years for these agencies to recover.33 It was expensive for the taxpayers to fund the relocation of these two USDA agencies in 2019. A report from General Accounting Office documented these aspects of the 2019 reorganization (GAO-23-104709 ).

Looking back further to 1995, an event related to NASA demonstrates a different way that events may unfold. NASA was in the spotlight soon after January 1995 when Republicans gained a majority in both the House and Senate for the first time in 40 years. Representative Newt Gingrich was at the helm.

In 1995, Republican lawmakers announced that they would close NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt and relocate Goddard’s 11,000 jobs to California. The alleged goal was saving money.34 One of the players in the ensuing struggle, Maryland’s Senator Barabara Mikulski, was quoted as saying, “This is real, and the battle has been joined…. We’ll try to work it out, and if we can’t, we’ll duke it out.” 35 In the end, the idea of closing Goddard was dropped.36

Jumping back to the present: a week after the July 24 memorandum announcing the USDA Department-wide reorganization, it is unclear how officials in various levels of government may work to modify or cancel the reorganization. It is also unclear the role that civil society and individual citizens will play.

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In an effort to understand a rapidly unfolding, complex event impacting Greenbelt, information for this story was gathered from media reports, government documents, and other sources. If any errors are found, please contact the editor of Greenbelt Online.

References

General Accounting Office, December 2022: Agency Relocations: Following Leading Practices Will Better Position USDA to Mitigate the Ongoing Impacts on Its Workforce. Report to Congressional Requesters GAO-23-104709, https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-104709. An evaluation of the impacts of the USDA deciding in September 2019 to move two USDA agencies to Kansas City, Missouri: the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA).

Kern, R., April 9, 2025: Project 2025 wanted to hobble the federal workforce. DOGE has hastily done that, and more. Government Executive, https://www.govexec.com/transition/2025/04/project-2025-wanted-hobble-federal-workforce-doge-has-hastily-done-and-more/404390/.

Maryland Historical Trust, 1998: Individual Property/District Maryland Historical Trust Internal NR-Eligibility Review Form, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center. Survey PG 62-14, 89 pp., https://www.nab.usace.army.mil/Portals/63/docs/BEP/Supporting_Documents/Determination_of_Eligibility_Forms/BEP_PROJECT-Architectural_History_Determination_of_Eligibility-BARC_Historic_District.pdf. See Robinson and Associates (1998) for six volumes of documentation supporting this review.

Progressive Farmer, July 28, 2025: USDA Reorganization Sparks Concerns Trump’s USDA Reorganization Plan Sparks Concerns Over Service Disruptions, Staff Exodus. https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/news/article/2025/07/25/trumps-usda-reorganization-plan.

Robinson and Associates, 1998: Historical Site Survey Beltsville Agricultural Research Center. Six volumes, prepared for U.S. Dept of Agriculture, BJY J.O. 95314. Volume 2 online at https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/80420500/BARC%20Demolition%20Project/Historic%20Site%20Survey%20Vol%20II_reduced.pdf. This document is the basis of the review of Maryland Historical Trust (1998).

Rollins, Brook L., July 24, 2025: Department of Agriculture Reorganization Plan. Secretary memorandum SM 1078-015, Secretary of Agriculture, Washington DC., 5 pp., https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/sm-1078-015.pdf.  See also the video that Secretary Rollins released on the same day as this Secretary’s memorandum.

Notes

[1] Secretary’s memorandums are a standard way to announce new policies. For a list of USDA memorandums, visit https://www.usda.gov/search?query=secretary%27s+memorandum.

[2] Speed and scale of firing federal workers: Kern 2025.

[3] The meeting is described: Greenbelt News Review, 31 July 2025, page 1.

[4] Largest and most diversified agricultural research complex in the world: https://agresearchmag.ars.usda.gov/2010/apr/research/. Largest USDA research facility and most diversified in the world: Robinson and Associates 1998; Maryland Historical Trust 1998. The BARC homepage lists the following laboratories at BARC: Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory, Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, Adaptive Cropping Systems Laboratory, Environmental Microbial & Food Safety Laboratory, Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, Animal Biosciences & Biotechnology Laboratory, Bee Research Laboratory,

National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Invasive Insect Biocontrol & Behavior Laboratory, Genetic Improvement for Fruits & Vegetables Laboratory, Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory, Soybean Genomics & Improvement Laboratory, Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Sustainable Perennial Crops Laboratory,

Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory, Food Quality Laboratory, Mycology and Nematology Genetic Diversity and Biology Laboratory, and Beltsville Supergrade Committee.

[5] Present-day BARC is approximately 6,700 acres.

[6] BARC is administered as part of the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) northeast area.

[7] The George Washington Carver Center (GWCC) is four buildings that includes the headquarters of the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS). The 73-acre parcel was created in 1998: Maryland Land Records, Deed, 10 Sept 1998 (liber 12487, folio 011). That this 73-acre parcel is part of BARC is indicated in USDA (2019), Site Location Map, red outlines of BARC property. The four buildings have 350,100 sq. ft.: 2023 USDA Explanatory Notes – Agriculture Buildings and Facilities.

[8] Agricultural research started here in 1910: Maryland Historical Trust 1998. In 1988, Congress authorized $150 million in building renovations at BARC: Greenbelt News Review, 28 Jan 1988, page 1, and 25 July 1996, page 1. In 1996, Congress decided to build the four office buildings on BARC now known as the George Washington Carver Center: Greenbelt News Review, 25 July 1996, page 1. In 2016, BARC received $37 million to renovate Building 307: Greenbelt News Review, 4 August 2016, page 6. During the past few years, the Grunley Construction Company says it has worked on three renovation projects at BARC: $75.4 million for the Carver Center renovations awarded in 2020, $46.8 for Building 002 renovations in 2021, and $42.1 million for Building 005 renovations awarded in 2023 to be completed in 2026.

[9] USDA completed an environmental impact assessment for demolishing 117 buildings at BARC. See also Greenbelt News Review, 1 September 2022, page 1. In 2023, funds were available to demolish 22 of these buildings: Greenbelt News Review, 3 August 2023, page 7.

[10] The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) classified much of BARC as a Targeted Ecological Area (TEA), which means the following:

“lands and watersheds of high ecological value that have been identified as conservation priorities by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) for natural resource protection. These areas represent the most ecologically valuable areas in the State: they are the “best of the best”.

The 2017 update to the TEA areas is available from the state. Prince George’s County has identified BARC as a Special Conservation Area (SCA): MNCPPC, 2022: Land Preservation, Parks, and Recreation Plan, Appendix E.

[11] Determination: Maryland Historic Trust 1998. Six volumes of documentation supporting the determination: Robinson and Associates 1998.

[12] The University of Maryland at College Park announces that it is a Tier-1 research institution.

[13] Prince George’s County’s Plan 2035 identifies the portions of BARC not considered priority conservation areas to be part of the “Innovation Corridor” that includes NASA Goddard and surrounding towns. Page 4 of the Plan 2035 summary document defines the Innovation Corridor as:

This area has the highest concentrations of economic activity in our four targeted industry clusters (see Employment Areas on Page 19) and has the greatest potential to catalyze future job growth, research, and innovation in the near- to mid-term. This area is well positioned to capitalize on the synergies that derive from businesses, research institutions, and incubators locating in close proximity to one another and on existing and planned transportation investment, such as the Purple Line.

[14] As a rule of thumb, owning an office building costs less than leasing if a business expects to stay at a location for at least 10 years: Karina Fabian, November 20, 2024, Outgrowing Your Office Space? Should You Lease or Buy?, Business.com. Leasing generally costs more than housing workers in government-owned buildings: L. Nye Stevens, September 26, 1989, Public Buildings: Own or Lease?; General Accounting Office; Kevin Wayer and Barry Scribner, July 25, 2014, Is It Better for the Government to Lease or Own?; CARNM, March 10, 2025, Federal government real estate shake-up could shift balance from owned to leased space. The majority of federal-government office space in the DC area is leased. In May 2025, the GSA reported the federal government owned 41 million square feet of office space in the DC area but rented 55 million square feet.

[15] The Trump administration is in a rush to cancel office-building leases: Jonathan Lehrfeld and Mark Heschmeyer, February 18, 2025, Trump administration moves to cut nearly 100 federal leases as real estate shake-up grows, CoStar News. In recent years, both parties have wanted to reduce the number of office building owned by the Federal government (as well as the number of leased buildings), but there is concern the Trump administration has been “careless” in pursuing this goal: Sean Michael, April 8, 2025, Critics worry DOGE’s rush to sell excess federal buildings could hurt agency missions, squander revenue opportunities, Government Executive.

[16] In a joint press release with Maryland’s US Senators and most of its Congressmembers, Governor Moore suggested that the USDA reorganization proposed on July 24, 2025, would be illegal and harmful.

[17] Section 523 of Public Law 100-202 (22 December 1987) states:

None of the funds appropriated by this Act or any other Act in any fiscal year may be obligated or expended in any way for the purpose of the sale, lease, rental, excessing, surplusing, or disposal of any portion of land on which the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center is located at Beltsville, Maryland, without the specific approval of Congress: Provided, That such land may be sold, for fair market value, to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority and any proceeds from the sale of such land shall be placed in an escrow account to be available hereafter for use in the renovation and restoration of the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, to be released as specified in advance in appropriations Acts.

This law was discussed in an article in the Greenbelt News Review, 28 Jan 1988, page 1. A subsequent law allows the federal government to lease BARC land for up to 30 years. This authority was used to lease land for the solar panels that today sit between the Capital Beltway and the four office buildings of the George Washington Carver Center: USDA, September 5, 2019, Executive Director’s Recommendation, BARC Solar Array Site Selection Review. National Capital Planning Commission meeting, file number 8074. The legal protections preventing the sale of BARC land are discussed in Joe Murchison, July 31, 2025, BARC’s open space legally protected, Streetcar Suburbs.

[18] Kern 2025

[19] Plans to publish the planned USDA reorganization were delayed until May 27 due to the injunction: Politico, 16 May 2025. Information about the injunction: Eric Katz, July 24, 2025, Court filing reveals which offices at 17 agencies the Trump administration had slated for layoffs, Government Executive.

[20] On April 7, 2025, the USDA’s reorganization was yet to be formally announced, but it was already known that the reorganization would include jobs being moved from the DC area and closures of unnamed USDA facilities in the DC area: Eric Katz, 7 April 2025, USDA to slash headquarters, other staff and relocate some to new ‘hubs’ around the country, Government Executive.

[21] DC area USDA employees (including all of BARCs employees) would be moved to locations that include 5 hubs: Raleigh, North Carolina; Kansas City, Missouri; Indianapolis, Indiana; Fort Collins, Colorado; and Salt Lake City, Utah. On July 24, 2025, Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas said that there was “no greater champions” of farmers than the Agriculture Secretary and President Trump. Senator Jim Banks of Indiana said he was “grateful” to Trump. Senator Mike Lee of Utah said the USDA reorganization “is a big win for Utah’s farmers.”

[22] On July 28, 2025, the Progressive Farmer website reported that the National Farmers Union was concerned that such a major reorganization could cause “significant staff turnover, loss of institutional knowledge and service disruptions, at a time when farmers, ranchers and their communities critically depend on these services to stay afloat.” The same story reported that the American Farm Bureau Federation said it was very important that “delivery of essential services and programs for farmers is not disrupted.”

[23] Sky Chadde, May 19, 2025, Trump says he loves farmers. He’s dismantling the agency helping their communities survive, South Dakota Searchlight. Sky Chadde, July 28, 2025, ‘Farming in the dark’: Brooke Rollins’ leadership, DOGE’s grip and the cost to American agriculture, Wisconsin Examiner.

[24] Whitney Bauck, May 23, 2025, Trump vowed to help US farmers. These four say his policies are ‘wreaking havoc’, UK Guardian. The Cato Institute found that Trump’s trade wars hurt United States farmers: Tad DeHaven, 26 March 2025, Trump’s Trade Wars Harm Farmers and Taxpayers, Cato At Liberty. Brooke Shafer, July 16, 2025, Bankruptcy filings soar as farmers face inflation, ICE raids, News Nation.

[25] Geographic proximity mentioned at 30:40 and during 1:32:35–1:32:50. The time since the start of the recording of the July 30 Senate hearing is stated in the format mm:ss or h:mm:ss where mm is minutes, ss is seconds, and h is hour. Gross farm income by state map: John Newton, September 2024, First Look: 2023 Farm Profitability by State, Terrain.

[26] Gross farm income by state map: John Newton, September 2024, Terrain.

[27] Next generation of leadership: 15:57–18:41; Can’t start a good life in DC on a government salary 22:00–22:10; California 1:32:46–1:33:14.

[28] A natural time for Vaden to mentioned that federal locality pay rates during the hearing would have been 57:20.  The July 24 Secretary’s memorandum does mention the relevant locality rates. In 2025, BARC employees in Prince George’s County receive a locality pay adjustment of 33.94% for the Washington-Baltimore-Washington area.  Federal employees in two of the proposed hub cities receive a locality adjustment of 18.15% and 18.95% in Indianapolis and Kansas City, respectively. The federal pay cut when moving from BARC to Indianapolis, for example, is 11%, which can be calculated from 100% x (100+18.15) / (100+33.94) -100%.

[29] source: https://zillow.com/home-values

[30] TA-MajestyPalm, 2024, Complete US Home Affordability, by County (2023-2024), Reddit.

[31] Statements from senators during the July 30 hearing: 1:14:55 also 27:29.  The senators are not alone in this interpration of the duties of the Legislative and Executive branches: Congressional Research Service, August 3, 2017, Executive Branch Reorganization, report R44909; Constitutional Accountability Center, June 6, 2025, amius curiae to the Supreme Court in the case of Trump vs. Federation of Government Employees.

[32]  1:15:08–1:15:30 also 13:48-13:59.

[33] U.S. Congressmember Angie Craig was quoted as saying, “When the first Trump administration relocated USDA’s Economic Research Service and National Institute of Food and Agriculture outside of the Washington, D.C., area, about 75% of employees impacted declined the move, resulting in a massive brain drain and significant loss of productivity at both agencies” (Progressive Farmer, 28 July 2025, USDA Reorganization Sparks Concerns).

[34] F. D. Roylance and K. Hosler, 12 July 1995: Scientists say there’s nothing to be saved by closing Goddard space center. Baltimore Sun.

[35] Quote from Mikulski: AIP, July 13, 1995, Crucial Time for NASA Science Programs, FYI Science Policy News.

[36] Goddard not closed: Greenbelt News Review, 20 July 1995, page 1.