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September 2009

Vol. 14, No. 37 Week of September 13, 2009

Parnell appoints members to state boards

Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell has made appointments to the Prince William Sound Oil Spill Recovery Institute Board and the Alaska Seismic Hazards Safety Commission, the governor’s office said in a Sept. 4 press release.

The governor reappointed five members to the Prince William Sound Oil Spill Recovery Institute Board: Douglas Lentsch of Nikiski, general manager of Cook Inlet Spill & Prevention Inc. since 1995 and previously in the U.S. Coast Guard for 25 years; George Levasseur of Valdez, a commercial fisherman and charter boat captain, and retired state road and airport operations manager; William Lindow of Cordova, a commercial salmon gillnetter in the Copper River and Prince William Sound since 1978 and a halibut fisherman in the Gulf of Alaska since 1997; David Totemoff Sr. of Tatitlek, an Alaska Native of Aleut descent with 17 years of commercial fishing experience who has been employed with BP on the North Slope since 1976; and Glenn Ujioka of Cordova, a commercial salmon gillnetter in Copper River and Prince William Sound who has worked for an Alaska Native consortium that contracts with Alyeska’s SERVS.

The institute was established by federal law in 1990 after the Exxon Valdez oil spill to identify and develop the best available techniques, equipment and materials to deal with cold-water marine oil spills, and to help federal and state officials document, access and understand the long-term effects of such spills.

Seismic Hazards Safety Commission

The governor appointed two new members to the Alaska Seismic Hazards Safety Commission: David Miller of Sitka, who has more than 20 years of experience as a public safety officer and is chief of the Sitka Fire Department; and Gayle White of Anchorage, who has worked for State Farm Insurance Co. since 1989 and is a chartered financial consultant and a chartered property and casualty insurance underwriter.

The governor also reappointed two members to the commission: John Aho of Anchorage, who has 35 years of experience in planning, designing and managing multidisciplinary facility building projects and recently retired as vice president and principal project manager for CH2M Hill; and Roger Hansen of Fairbanks, who has been state seismologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute since 1994.

The commission is responsible for advising the governor, the Legislature and private sectors on policies for seismic hazard mitigation and disaster preparedness, and on when to issue seismic hazard warnings.

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