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FDA Winding Down White Oak Construction; Outside Rents Going Up

 
• By Derrick Gingery

President Obama’s budget requests less headquarters consolidation funding in FY 2015 as CBER announces it will move staff to the campus between May and July.

Several thousand FDA employees are expected to begin working in some of FDA’s new buildings on its White Oak campus later this year, although President Obama’s FY 2015 budget request reduces the amount devoted to the headquarters consolidation effort.

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