Going Back to New Orleans

The Minerals Management Service is back. The Interior Department agency has returned to its New Orleans offices, after spending several weeks working out of a temporary facility in Houston. About 350 employees are working on five floors of the agency's office building on Elmwood Park Blvd., even though repairs of the building haven't been completed yet. Another 100 are scattered in field offices nearby, and 150 remain in Houston until the repairs are finished.