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Sandia, LANL prepare for furloughs
Sandia, LANL prepare for furloughs
Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories are preparing to halt operations by Oct. 21 and furlough most of their 18,000 New Mexico employees if the federal government shutdown is not resolved before then, lab officials confirmed Tuesday.
The dramatic order to prepare for lab shutdowns later this month was a directive of the National Nuclear Security Administration, Sandia president Paul Hommert told Sandia employees in an open letter Tuesday obtained by the Journal and other media.
The NNSA, a branch of the U.S. Department of Energy, oversees the work at both of New Mexico’s national labs.
“If a shutdown is needed, programmatic work will not be conducted. Those functions that NNSA directs us to continue will be extremely limited,” Hommert said in the letter.
http://www.abqjournal.com/277959/news/sandia-lanl-prepare-to-close.html
