"To a varying extent, the shutdown process will take between a few hours and a week."

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Lights out for most, not all, in shutdown
By Julian Hattem - 09/30/13 12:37 PM ET


A government shutdown would turn off the lights at a slew of federal offices, furloughing workers, closing national parks and locking shut research laboratories across the country.

All but the most essential functions of government would grind to a halt.

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Still, thousands of workers would be kept home, and myriad federal functions would be halted.

At the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, for instance, just 230 of the agency’s 2,235 workers would be allowed to come in during a government shutdown.

The National Zoo would keep out visitors and turn off its live animal cameras, though workers would continue to feed and care for the animals.

About half of the Department of Health and Human Services’s 78,000 employees would be furloughed, with most of those losses coming from agencies that make grants, like the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Additionally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would have to drop its work to detect and track flu outbreaks. The Food and Drug Administration would have to halt its routine food safety facilities inspections and enforcement actions.

The White House would lose about three-quarters of its employees, and all but about 5 percent of the Environmental Protection Agency’s 16,000 workers around the country would be sent home.

Those lapses, safety advocates warn, could put Americans at risk.

“We would absolutely be concerned about the potential for a bad impact on consumer protections if there is a shutdown,” Ami Gadhia, senior policy counsel at Consumers Union, said.

To a varying extent, the shutdown process will take between a few hours and a week.

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