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Senate
Committee Approves Three DOI Nominees
September
13, 2006
United States Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources
Contact:
Marnie Funk marnie_funk@energy.senate.gov
or 202-224-6977 (work) or 202-302-5885 (cell)
Washington, D.C. - The Energy Committee today approved by voice
vote three appointments to the Department of Interior:
David
Bernhardt to be Solicitor,
John Ray
Correll to be Director of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and
Enforcement
and Mark
Myers to be Director of the U.S. Geological Survey.
Bernhardt is currently the Deputy Solicitor at the Department of
Interior. Prior to joining DOI, he worked in the private sector
for the law firm of Brownstein, Hyatt and Farber P.C. Before joining the
private sector, he also held a variety of legislative aide positions for
former U.S. Representative Scott McInnis (CO-3).
Correll serves as Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Mine Safety and
Health Administration in the U.S. Department of Labor. Correll’s
career spans 30 years in the mining industry in coal, metal and
nonmetal.
Myers serves as the State of Alaska Division of Oil and Gas Director,
State Geologist, and Director of the State Division of Geological and
Geophysical Surveys.
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