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Release: #4015
Date: July 15, 2009
S. Elizabeth
Birnbaum Sworn in as MMS Director
Will Lead Regulatory Agency Responsible for
over 1.7 billion Offshore Acres and Royalty Collection
WASHINGTON, D.C. –
S. Elizabeth (Liz) Birnbaum, former Staff Director for the Committee
on House Administration and the Department of the Interior’s
Associate Solicitor for
Mineral Resources,
has assumed her duties as the 10th Director of the Minerals
Management Service (MMS). Leading the MMS, Birnbaum will be
responsible for an annual budget of $323 million and 1,600 employees.
“I'm excited to join
Secretary Salazar’s team and continue his initiative to push our
nation toward a new energy frontier," Birnbaum said.
Birnbaum received her Juris Doctor 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, Vol. 8.
The Minerals Management Service manages the nation's
offshore Renewable Energy Program as well as the development of
natural gas, oil and other mineral resources on the Outer Continental
Shelf. The agency also collects, accounts for and disburses more than
$13 billion per year in revenues from Federal offshore mineral leases
and from onshore mineral leases on Federal and American Indian lands.
The Director's Page
Contact:
Nicholas Pardi (202)
208-3985
MMS: Securing Ocean Energy & Economic Value for America
U.S. Department of the Interior
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Last Updated:
07/23/2009,
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