July 22, 2014

White House to Announce NRC Nominations

By ExchangeMonitor
The White House reportedly intends to nominate Stephen Burns and Jeff Baran to fill the open spots on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The duo had been viewed as likely candidates for the openings for some time and their impending nomination was first reported by Politico yesterday.. Burns previously worked for the NRC, rising to general counsel under then-Chairman Gregory Jaczko, but left in 2012 for a position with the Nuclear Energy Agency. Baran currently serves as a congressional aide to House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) while also serving as Democratic staff director for Energy and Environment Subcommittee.
 
The two nominations aim to fill the vacancies opened by the impending departure of Commissioner William Magwood, who will be leaving at the end of August to assume his new position as the Director-General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), and former Commissioner George Apostolakis, who the President declined to re-nominate at the end of June. Magwood announced in the spring that he would be leaving the agency for the new job, but he had not set a departure date until yesterday. “It has been a rare honor to have been one of only 33 people to have served as an NRC Commissioner,” Magwood said in a statement. “The NRC is a truly outstanding organization that stands as a powerful model for nuclear safety organizations throughout the world. The mission of the NRC has engendered a culture of independence of decision-making, dedication to purpose, and commitment to excellence to which one would hope all regulators and staffs might aspire. Though my tenure with the NRC is coming to its end, I will remain a strong advocate for these values.” Magwood’s departure would drop the Commission down to three members.

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