en.Wedoany.com Reported - The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Thursday that it is renaming the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) to the Food and Nutrition Administration (FNA) and relocating some personnel from Washington, D.C., to eight locations nationwide. This is the department's latest move to shift approximately 2,600 employees out of the capital.

According to a USDA press release, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will move to Indianapolis, Child Nutrition Programs to Dallas, and Supplemental Nutrition and Safety Programs to Kansas City, Missouri. Research programs will relocate to Raleigh, North Carolina, while Denver will become the new headquarters for emergency management and business continuity. The Office of Retailer Operations and Compliance will be distributed across Atlanta, Los Angeles, Dallas, and New York.

The FNA Administrator will remain in Washington, D.C., with a small staff handling congressional affairs, interagency coordination, regulatory, and policy work. The USDA stated that this customer service adjustment will not affect program execution, nor will it diminish efforts to eliminate fraud, waste, and abuse in nutrition assistance programs.

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins and Deputy Secretary Stephen Vaden view these actions as imperative. Vaden noted: "This reorganization is long overdue. The Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services mission area has been without a Senate-confirmed Under Secretary for nearly 20 years, and the shift to the Food and Nutrition Administration will better align with other benefit programs managed by the federal government. This reorganization also reduces duplicative management and complexity within the agency, better prioritizes state services and participant needs, and expands the department's presence to combat fraud, waste, and abuse."

Additionally, last week the department announced the reorganization of the Research, Education, and Economics mission area, as well as the Food Safety and Inspection Service.

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