The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has postponed its hearing on the nomination of Jeff Baran to remain on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. A new date for the hearing, in which lawmakers will also consider nominees for four assistant administrator positions at the Environmental Protection Agency, has not yet been rescheduled, according to a Tuesday press release from the Senate panel.
Baran, a lawyer and former Democratic staffer on Capitol Hill, is serving his first term on the commission. His term ends on June 30, 2018. However, at the urging of EPW Committee Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), his reappointment is being advanced in near-lockstep with two nominees who would fill vacant NRC spots: Annie Caputo, a nuclear engineer and Republican staffer on the EPW Committee, and David Wright, an energy consultant and former head of the South Carolina Public Service Commission and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.
