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No. 05-114

August 23, 2005

NRC ANNOUNCES NEW HEAD OF STATE AND TRIBAL PROGRAMS
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is announcing the appointment of Janet R. Schlueter as director of the agency's Office of State and Tribal Programs. She will succeed Paul H. Lohaus, who is retiring in October. In this position, she will be responsible for managing the programs that establish and maintain effective communications and working relationships between the NRC and states, local government, other federal agencies and Native American tribal governments.

Schlueter joined the NRC in 1989 as a health physicist in the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards (NMSS). In 1996, she became a technical assistant and executive assistant to then Commissioner Edward McGaffigan. She was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in 2002, serving as the head of the High-Level Waste Branch of NMSS. Previously, she'd also served as a technical assistant in the Office of the Executive Director for Operations and was acting deputy director for the Office of State and Tribal Programs. In 2004, she became executive assistant to NRC Chairman Nils J. Diaz.

Prior to joining the NRC, Schlueter worked in the medical field and then as a health physicist, radiation safety consultant and trainer.

Schlueter holds a bachelor's degree in Radiation Sciences and Administration from George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and an associate degree in Radiation Sciences from the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, in Richmond, Va.