Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Dan Beard isn’t happy with former agency colleague Joe Hall. Eight months after resigning as the number two official at the bureau, Hall was hired as a $95-per-hour consultant by the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District, reports The Denver Post. According to federal ethics law, former top officials must abstain from making “advocacy contacts or representations to” the agency that employed them for one year after leaving a job. Conservancy District manager Eric Wilkinson said Hall was hired because the district hopes to buy four reservoirs now owned by the Bureau of Reclamation. Commissioner Beard commented, “There is such a thing as a federal revolving-door policy. It seems like the door is revolving a little fast in this case … It makes me uncomfortable.”

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A spinning door

by Staff, High Country News
May 16, 1994

<h1>A spinning door</h1> <p class="byline">by Staff, High Country News <br />May 16, 1994</p> <p>Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Dan Beard isn’t<br /> happy with former agency colleague Joe Hall. Eight months after<br /> resigning as the number two official at the bureau, Hall was hired<br /> as a $95-per-hour consultant by the Northern Colorado Water<br /> Conservancy District, reports The Denver Post. According to federal<br /> ethics law, former top officials must abstain from making “advocacy<br /> contacts or representations to” the agency that employed them for<br /> one year after leaving a job. Conservancy District manager Eric<br /> Wilkinson said Hall was hired because the district hopes to buy<br /> four reservoirs now owned by the Bureau of Reclamation.<br /> Commissioner Beard commented, “There is such a thing as a federal<br /> revolving-door policy. It seems like the door is revolving a little<br /> fast in this case … It makes me uncomfortable.”</p> <div class="wp-block-group hcn-print-edition-box"> <p>This article appeared in the <a href="/?p=186874">print edition of the magazine</a> with the headline <span class="hcn-magtitle">A spinning door</span>.</p> </p></div> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-11/a-spinning-door/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info Country News&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.hcn.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/cropped-HCN_Logo-Monogram_White_Sq-2.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;quality=100&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=102091&amp;amp;ga4=G-0NS3WVPPTN&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://country-survey-collabs.info/issues/issue-11/a-spinning-door/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/hcn.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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