The Interior Department is taking a closer look at official employee requests for travel planned over the next two months.
Wynn Radford, Interior’s chief of staff, sent an internal memorandum to senior agency officials on Thursday instructing them that group travel requests planned over the next 45 days, or proposed international travel within the next 60 days, must be sent to and reviewed by Thomas Baptiste, a senior adviser to the Interior secretary.
Radford wrote that the goal is to “ensure that all travel … pertains to the necessary functions of Government business.”
The memo — sent to acting agency assistant secretaries, acting bureau and office directors, the inspector general, as well as acting Interior Solicitor Karen Hawbecker — suggests they should “remind all full-time personnel” at Interior “about the importance of the responsible use of travel.”
