INSIDE THE "USDA NEWS"

1. USDA’s 2002 Budget Calls For Cut Of $8.9 Billion, Cut
   Of 79 Fed Staff Years
   
2. Big Changes Are Afoot During This TSP 'Open Season’
   Then In 2006, The Limits Are Lifted
   
3. Secretary Ann Veneman
   
4. Administrative NUGGETS
   
5. Employees Make These Things... Happen!
   
6. Letters
   
7. USDA-Sponsored Calendar Highlights
   
8. Editor's Roundup -- USDA people in the news

• Dale Bosworth was selected as the 15^th chief of the Forest Service.
  
• Cliff Oliver was selected as the director of USDA’s Office of Crisis Planning and Management.
  
•  Norma McDill was selected as the deputy administrator for cotton in the Agricultural Marketing Service.
  
•  Bob Epstein was selected as the deputy administrator for science and technology in the Agricultural Marketing Service.
  
•  Rick Van Klaveren was selected as the regional conservationist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Northern Plains Region, based in Lincoln, Neb.
  
•  Les Konrad and  Doug Marousek had the "right stuff" at a recent road rally.