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June 2009

Vol. 14, No. 26 Week of June 28, 2009

Salazar names Birnbaum director of MMS

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar has named attorney Liz Birnbaum director of the Minerals Management Service.

“As a former associate solicitor here at Interior with extensive experience as counsel and staff director for congressional committees, Liz brings a number of strengths to this key position at Interior,” Salazar said in a June 25 statement. “Her in-depth knowledge of energy issues, natural resource policy and environmental law as well as her managerial expertise and work in coalition building will be especially important as we advance President Obama’s new energy frontier and lay the foundation for a clean energy economy.”

As MMS director, Birnbaum will administer programs managing renewable and traditional energy and mineral resources on the nation’s outer continental shelf and collection and distribution of revenues for minerals developed on federal and American Indian lands.

Birnbaum has been staff director of the Committee on House Administration since 2007. From 2001-07 she was vice president at American Rivers, the nation’s leading river conservation organization.

She was at Interior from 1999-2001 and was counsel to the House Committee on Natural resources from 1991-99; prior to that she was with the National Wildlife Federation.

She received her Juris Doctor degree from Harvard University in 1984 and her A.B. degree, magna cum laude, from Brown University in 1979. She was editor in chief of the Harvard Environmental Law Review, Vo. 8.

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