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**REJANE "JOHNNIE" BURTON**

Ms. Burton's appointment as Director, Minerals Management Service,
became effective on March 15, 2002. Ms. Burton's background provides a
solid mix of experience in state government, the oil and gas industry,
and education. Since 1995, she served on the governor of Wyoming's
cabinet as director of the Department of Revenue. Before that, she
served (1989-92) as vice-president of TCF Inc., an oil and gas
exploration company based in Casper, Wyoming. Prior to that, she was
vice president of Dwights Energydata Inc., an information company
specializing in oil and gas databases. Ms. Burton was also president and
founder of Hotline Energy Reports Inc., which later merged with Dwights
Energydata Inc. Under her leadership, Hotline Energy Reports Inc. built
a historical database of all wells drilled for oil and gas in the 11
Rocky Mountain States. Ms. Burton began her career in the oil and gas
industry as an oil scout in Casper, Wyoming, for Rinehart Oil News of
San Antonio, Texas. From 1982 through1988, Ms. Burton was a member of
the Wyoming State House of Representatives. She served as a member of
the Wyoming State Advisory Council of Education Grants (1986-88), and
also as director of the First Wyoming Bank in Casper from 1981 through
1984. She served as a member of the Independent Petroleum Association of
Mountain States Speaker's Bureau from 1977 through1979. Her career
highlights also include positions as a lecturer and teacher of French at
the university and high school levels and as a translator and
interpreter for the J. F. Pritchard Company in Paris, France, and Kansas
City, Kansas. In1987, she was honored as a "Friend of Education" by the
Wyoming School Boards Association. Ms. Burton is a member of the
National Order of Women Legislators and the American Association of
Translators. She is also a member of the National Alcohol Beverage
Control Association and served as its president, representing Wyoming
from 2000 to 2001. Born in French Algeria, Ms. Burton immigrated to the
United States in 1963 and became an American citizen in 1968. In 1958,
she completed the Baccalaureat de l'Enseignement Secondaire (option
Philosophie) from the Lycee Fromentin in Algiers, Algeria. She completed
the Licence-es-Lettres, English, Diplome d'Enseignment from the
Universities of Algiers in Algeria and in Paris, France, in 1962. She
holds a master's degree (1974) from the University of Wyoming. She
studied at the University of Arkansas and has completed management
training by The Presidents Association and Duke University.

**THOMAS READINGER**

Mr. Readinger is the Associate Director of the Offshore Minerals
Management Program. Prior to this new appointment, Mr. Readinger was the
Deputy Associate Director of OMM and was responsible for managing Outer
Continental Shelf resources to ensure environmental protection, safe
operations and receipt of fair market value for OCS resources. In that
capacity, he also served as the chairman of the OMM Information
Management Committee and led the OMM effort to develop the new\
e-Government Transformation proposal to increase the efficient and
effective delivery of services to agency stakeholders. Mr. Readinger has
been involved with the OCS program for 26 years. He joined the Federal
Government in 1976 as an economist with the Bureau of Land Management
where he was responsible for developing bidding systems and bid adequacy
procedures to ensure fair market value for OCS resources. From 1987 to
1997, he served as Program Director for the Office of OCS Program
Development and Coordination, where he developed and implemented the OCS
5-year Oil and Gas Leasing Program for MMS. In 1995, Mr. Readinger was
awarded the Department of the Interior's Meritorious Service Award for
career-long contributions to the development of procedures to ensure
fair market value for public resources. Since being promoted to the
Senior Executive Service in 1987, he has received numerous performance
awards for contributions to program management and information
technology advancements.\
Mr. Readinger received a B.S. degree in Business Management from the
Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1972, and an M.A. degree in
Economics from American University in 1974. He received his Senior
Executive Certification in Public Administration from George Washington
University in 1987.

**ROBERT P. LABELLE**

Mr. LaBelle, as the Deputy Associate Director for Offshore Minerals
Management, serves as Chief Operating Officer for the management of all
facets of the Offshore Program, including policy development, policy
implementation, and program planning. He is responsible for directing
the implementation of Offshore's Strategic Plan and serves as Executive
Secretary for the Offshore Steering Committee, as well as Chairman of
the Offshore Information Management Committee. Previously, as Chief of
the MMS Environmental Division, Mr. LaBelle was responsible for offshore
oil and gas industry compliance with all environmental requirements,
including water and air quality, endangered species, oil spill risk
analysis, and archaeology, in all U.S. Federal waters. He oversaw a
large environmental research program and the preparation of
Environmental Impact Assessments and other decision documents used for
both offshore energy and mining activities. In prior positions, Mr.
LaBelle was Chief of the MMS Technology Assessment and Research Branch,
where he led research on engineering and technical aspects of offshore
production and development. Previous positions at MMS and USGS include
Chief of the Environmental Operations and Analysis Branch, and Chief of
the Branch of Environmental Modeling. Prior to joining Interior, Mr.
LaBelle worked for Martin Marietta Corp. as an environmental analyst on
the siting of electrical power plants and on assessing the effects of
nuclear power stations on aquatic species. Mr. LaBelle is a graduate of
the University of Massachusetts (BS), the University of Maryland (MS),
and Loyola College (MBA).

**THOMAS E. AHLFELD**

Dr. Ahlfeld is a Biological Oceanographer in the MMS Environmental
Sciences Branch. He has over 25 years experience in marine environmental
research with emphasis on benthic ecology, marine environmental
monitoring, and biological effects of offshore oil and gas development.
He holds a B.S. degree in biology from Loyola University (New Orleans)
and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in biological oceanography from Florida State
University. Dr. Ahlfeld serves on several U.S. interagency panels
dealing with diverse marine environmental issues including invasive
species, coral reef protection, and ecosystem management and served on
the science advisory panel for Mote Marine Laboratory of Sarasota,
Florida. Dr. Ahlfeld recently published on resource management
applications of environmental research on chemosynthetic communities
associated with hydrocarbon seeps in the Gulf of Mexico and is currently
serving as Team Leader for the MMS Environmental Monitoring Working
Group.

**COLLEEN (LEE) S. BENNER**

 

Ms. Benner is an Oceanographer in the Environmental Sciences Branch,
Herndon, Virginia. She is the office specialist for efforts and studies
dealing with endangered marine species as well as non-endangered or
threatened marine mammals, birds, and fish. Her responsibilities include
formulating and recommending environmental studies that support the MMS
environmental program and oversees projects as MMS Contracting Officer's
Technical Representative or Contract Inspector. In addition to Ms.
Benner's responsibilities in developing and supporting studies, she also
serves as the Branch representative on several interagency working
groups addressing various marine environment related issues.

**MARY BOATMAN**

Dr. Boatman is the supervisor of the Studies Coordination Unit in the
Leasing and Environment Division of the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region. She
serves as a Contracting Officer's Technical Representative for a number
of Environmental Studies Program contracts related to fates and effects
and chemical issues in the Gulf. She co-authored the white paper "Ocean
Gas Hydrates Research and Activities Review." She has a Ph.D. in
chemical Oceanography from Texas A&M University.

**GREGORY S. BOLAND**

Mr. Boland is a Biological Oceanographer/Fishery Biologist in the
Environmental Sciences Section, MMS New Orleans. He came to MMS in 1998
with an M.S. in biological oceanography from Texas A&M University. His
areas of interest include deep-sea biology, coral reef ecology,
artificial reef ecology, and fishery biology. His professional career
includes 10 years with the consulting firm LGL Ecological Research
Associates where he was involved as Principal Investigator for many of
the major MMS-funded Gulf studies in the 1980's, and 10 years with the
Texas A&M Department of Oceanography where he worked with Dr. Gil Rowe
in a variety of benthic ecology studies worldwide. He is also an active
member of the MMS Dive Team using diving as an additional facet of
studies management as well as for environmental compliance monitoring.

**ELIZABETH BURKHARD**

Ms. Burkhard is a Marine Biologist in the MMS Environmental Sciences
Branch. She holds a B.S. degree in Biology from the College of William
and Mary and an M.S. degree in Marine Science from the University of
South Florida, St. Petersburg. Ms. Burkhard serves on the interagency
committee to implement the Executive Order on Marine Protected Areas.
She is also responsible for the management of contractual and financial
information for the Studies Program and is involved in program policy.

**JANE CARLSON**

Ms. is the Team Lead for Minerals Management Service.  She is a
contracting Officer with 30 years of government contracting experience. 
Her procurement background covers a wide range of complex contracts,
grants, and cooperative agreements including research and development,
statistical surveys and analyses, vessel and aircraft charters,
environmental, oceanographic and atmospheric surveys, transportation
studies, and major electronic system programs for the acquisition of
advanced automation systems. 

**JIM CIMATO**

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Mr. Cimato is a senior staff analyst in the Environmental Sciences
Branch.  He is responsible for developing MMS-wide policies and
procedures governing the formulation and implementation of the
Environmental Studies Program.  As an Oceanographer within the branch,
Mr. Cimato coordinates many of the fates and effects studies within MMS
and the Coastal Marine Institute program.  Mr. Cimato worked in the
private sector in oil pollution prevention research before joining the
Offshore Program in 1975. 

**CLEVE COWLES**

Dr. Cowles is Chief, Environmental Studies Section, Alaska OCS Region.
His responsibilities include managing a multi-disciplinary staff to
implement the Alaska environmental studies portion of the MMS ESP. Dr.
Cowles has been with the Alaska OCS Region since 1979, serving as Chief
of the Environmental Studies Unit from 1983-1995, and as Acting Chief of
the Social and Economic Studies Unit from 1992-1995.

**BARRY S. DRUCKER**

Mr. Drucker is a Physical Scientist, Office of International Activities
and Marine Minerals. He is responsible for formulating and recommending
environmental studies in support of the MMS marine minerals program and
for negotiating leases for the use of Federal sand for beach and coastal
restoration efforts. He develops statements of work for funded studies
and oversees projects as MMS Contracting Officer\'s Technical
Representative, as well as working with various Federal, State, and
local entities in the development of negotiated sand leases,
environmental stipulations, and NEPA documents.

**MARY ELAINE DUNAWAY**

Mary Elaine Dunaway is a biologist in the Environmental Studies Section
in the Pacific Region. She oversees contracts pertaining to biology and
fates and effects. Mary Elaine also team-leads MINT, the MMS inhouse
Intertidal Team. MINT collects data at 20 rocky intertidal sites
adjacent to OCS platforms in the tri-County area and conducts
independent research. Current responsibilities include oversight of
MARINE, the Multi-Agency Rocky Intertidal Network. MARINE is a
partnership of agencies and universities who monitor rocky intertidal
communities off California. MARINE with it's 20 members and partners now
monitor 70 fixed sites biannually from Oregon to San Diego, and conduct
periodic comprehensive sampling from Washington to the mainland of
Mexico. Protocols are standardized and data is placed in a shared
database. Mary Elaine provides expertise to joint State/Federal oil
spill efforts, particularly as it relates to groundtruthing the presence
of biological resources during a spill or drill. She has initiated a new
educational curriculum which presents math and scientific method
concepts through the tidepool and is working with several Federal
agencies on joint education workshops for science teachers.

**JOHN GOLL**

Mr. Goll is the Regional Director of the MMS Alaska Outer ­Continental
Shelf Office, since May 1997.  He is responsible for oil and gas and
other mineral leasing and oversight of industry activities on the outer
continental shelf off Alaska.  This ranges from assessments of the oil
and gas resources, preparation of environmental analyses and research,
coordinating with local, state, tribal, and federal governments, and
others interested in the OCS program, and assuring that exploration and
development on the federal OCS is done safely and in the best interest
of the United States. Prior to becoming Regional Director, Mr. Goll
headed the MMS's national environmental office and was responsible for
the agency's nationwide environmental program, including NEPA and
research.  He was closely involved with the National Research Council
and GAO committees which reviewed MMS\'s environmental studies program,
and represented MMS on the Council's Ocean Studies Board project on
improving the use of science in decision making for coastal issues.  He
has participated in training missions with Russian environmental
regulators in northwest Siberia and on Sakhalin Island.  He also worked
as a meteorologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission, working on air quality modeling and assessments.
Mr. Goll holds a Bachelors Degree in Meteorology and Oceanography and a
Masters Degree in air pollution meteorology, both from the University of
Michigan.  

**TIMOTHY R. HOLDER**

Mr. Holder has been a Contracting Officer's Technical Representative for
economic studies and economist writing economic impact analysis for
Environmental Impact Statements for the MMS, Alaska OCS Region, since
1990. Previously, he was a coordinator of local, state, and federal
agencies and interest groups for leasing OCS for gold mining near Nome,
Alaska, for the MMS. Prior to joining the MMS in 1988, Mr. Holder was a
Coastal Management Planner for Nome, Alaska, and has held the position
of urban planner/economist for various consultants, regional planning
agencies, and local government in the Portland, Oregon, and Detroit,
Michigan, areas.\
Mr. Holder received his B.A. in Economics from Kenyon College, Gambier,
Ohio, in 1968, and his Master of Urban Planning from Wayne State
University, Detroit, in 1974.

**WARREN L. HOROWITZ**

Mr. Horowitz is an Oceanographer with the Environmental Studies Section,
Alaska OCS Region. He is responsible for formulating and recommending
environmental studies in support of leasing oil and gas resources. He
develops statements of work for funded studies and oversees
environmental studies as an MMS Contracting Officer's Technical
Representative (COTR). Disciplinary areas of expertise include
geographic information systems and modeling applications for sea ice
mapping, coastal oil spill trajectory models, spatial databases of oil
and gas activities, and marine meteorology.

**JAMES J. KENDALL**

Dr. James J. Kendall coordinates the Environmental Studies Program (ESP)
of the U.S. Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service
(MMS) and serves as Executive Secretary to the OCS Scientific Committee.
The MMS ESP is tasked with providing the environmental and socioeconomic
information necessary for MMS to make informed decisions concerning
offshore oil and gas and marine minerals activities. Prior to joining
the MMS Headquarters Office, Dr. Kendall served as the ESP Studies Chief
for the MMS Gulf of Mexico OCS Regional Office in New Orleans,
Louisiana. He received his bachelor's degree in biology from Old
Dominion University and his Ph.D. in oceanography from Texas A&M
University. Dr. Kendall has conducted marine research in the Gulf of
Mexico, Caribbean, and Red Sea.

**RONALD J. LAI**

Dr. Lai is a physical scientist in Environmental Sciences Branch in
Herndon Office, Virginia, and is program coordinator for the Physical
Oceanography and Air Quality research. He assists in the smooth and
efficient running of the Environmental Studies Program. He serves in the
Technical Proposal Evaluation Committee (TPEC) to award the contracts
and oversights the progress of the funded studies. He also serves as the
Branch's technical liaison with other federal agencies on physical
science research and develops a joint program as needed.

**ALEXIS LUGO-FERNANDEZ**

Dr. Lugo-Fernandez is an Oceanographer in the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region.

**HARRY LUTON**

Dr. Luton is the Gulf of Mexico OCS Region's Sociologist for MMS\'s
Environmental Studies Program. His University of Michigan Ph.D.
dissertation is on an Eskimo whaling community in northern Alaska.\
Dr. Luton worked for the Agency in Alaska writing social and subsistence
sections of Environmental Impact Statements and Statements of Work for
socioeconomic studies. He has worked in Headquarters in the
Environmental Studies Branch. For the last eight years he has developing
socioeconomic studies in the Gulf and on serving as a Contracting
Officer\'s Technical Representative.

**CHARLES W. MONNETT**

Dr. Monnett is a Marine Ecologist, Environmental Studies Section, Alaska
OCS Region. He is responsible for formulating and recommending
environmental studies in support of the MMS OCS leasing program. He
develops statements of work for funded studies and oversees projects as
MMS Contracting Officer\'s Technical Representative.

**RICHARD D. NEWMAN**

Mr. Newman is a Physical Oceanographer, Alaska Outer Continental Shelf
Region, Environmental Studies Section. He is responsible for
recommending environmental studies in support of the MMS environmental
studies program, developing statements of work for funded studies, and
overseeing projects as MMS Contracting Officer's Technical
Representative, as well as working in the development of environmental
impact statements and other NEPA documents.

**FRED M. PILTZ**

Dr. Piltz is the Chief, Environmental Studies Section, Pacific OCS
Region. He is responsible for the planning, implementation, and
management of the environmental studies for the Pacific OCS Region.
Prior to his current position, he worked in applied environmental impact
assessment research as both a taxonomic consultant and field scientist
in Southern California and in the Straits of Magellan, Chile. His
research experience includes laboratory work on the effects of heavy
metals on marine organisms, effects of oil spills on intertidal
invertebrates, and effects of municipal sewage outfalls on benthic
invertebrate communities.

**DICK PRENTKI**

Dr. Prentki is an Oceanographer in the Environmental Studies Section,
Alaska OCS Region. His responsibilities include developing and providing
technical oversight for physical and chemical oceanographic studies in
the Alaska environmental studies portion of the MMS ESP. Dr. Prentki has
been with the Alaska OCS Region since 1981, first in the Environmental
Assessment Section and then in the Environmental Studies Section.

**PASQUALE F. ROSCIGNO**

Dr. Pat Roscigno is the Chief, Environmental Sciences Section, and Gulf
of Mexico OCS Region. He is responsible for managing the Gulf of Mexico
OCS Regions\' ESP. The Gulf studies support OCS management decisions for
the Western, Central, and Eastern Planning Areas of the Gulf. Prior to
his current position, he served as the Supervisor for the Gulf\'s
Studies Plan Coordination Unit.

**PAUL STANG**

Mr. Stang has been MMS's Alaska OCS Regional Supervisor for Leasing and
Environment since July 1997. He oversees the region's leasing,
environmental studies, and environmental assessment activities.
Previously, he managed branches in MMS Headquarters with
responsibilities for lease sales, development of MMS's 5-year leasing
program, and long term planning. From 1977-1984, before coming to MMS,
Mr. Stang handled a variety of offshore oil and gas and coastal zone
management issues for the Department of the Interior's Office of Policy
Analysis. Prior to that, he headed projects on coastal zone management,
interdisciplinary ocean research, and undersea science and technology
development for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency and
deep ocean technology development for the Navy's Deep Submergence
Systems Program.

**STEVE TREACY**

Mr. Treacy is Senior Wildlife Biologist, Environmental Studies Section,
Alaska OCS Region. He has been responsible for development of Statements
of Work and contract administration on many upper trophic species,
particularly large whales.  Since 1987, he has also been in charge of
MMS\'s inhouse study, Bowhead Whale Aerial Survey Project (BWASP).  As
BWASP Research Manager and Principal Investigator, he writes and
publishes a detailed annual report analyzing each fall migration of
bowhead whales across the Alaskan Beaufort Sea.

**LYNNETTE L. VESCO**

Ms. Vesco is the Acting Regional Supervisor, Office of Environmental
Evaluation, Pacific OCS Region. She is responsible for managing all
aspects of the Environmental Evaluation Program for the MMS Pacific OCS
Region, which includes preparing environmental reviews and analyses for
the OCS oil and gas activities, ensuring compliance with environmental
conditions of project approval, planning and managing the environmental
studies program, and communicating with affected customers. She is also
responsible for certain lease management functions such as lease
adjudication and company financial responsibility. Lynnette has an M.A.
in marine biology, and conducted research in rocky intertidal
communities for many years.

**WILLIAM WASKES**

Mr. Waskes is an Oceanographer in the Leasing Division, Sand and Gravel
Section. He is responsible for supporting the division's Environmental
Coordinator in formulating and recommending biological studies in
support of negotiating leases for the use of Federal sand for beach and
coastal restoration efforts. He oversees consultations with NOAA
Fisheries and Fish and Wildlife Service on essential fish habitat and
threatened and endangered species. He assists in the development of NEPA
documents and environmental stipulations for negotiated sand leases.

**KATE WEDEMEYER**

Ms. Wedemeyer is a Fisheries Oceanographer in the Alaska Environmental
Studies office. She is responsible for recommending and overseeing
fisheries studies related to Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing
activities as an MMS Contracting Officer's Technical Representative.\
Ms. Wedemeyer also oversees a number of physical oceanography and
contaminant study contracts. She has been responsible for Essential Fish
Habitat (EFH) analyses and inter-agency coordination on the recent
Multi-year Beaufort Sea and Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale EIS's for
the Alaska office.

**RICHARD F. WILDERMANN**

Mr. Wildermann is the Chief, Environmental Division.  He provides
oversight, policy guidance, and direction for all Offshore environmental
issues, including the Environmental Studies Program, environmental
analysis activities, and compliance with environmental laws and
regulations.  Mr. Wildermann has been with the OCS Program since 1978.

**DEE WILLIAMS**

Dr. Williams is a Sociocultural Specialist for the Alaska Region of
Minerals Management Service. He is responsible for preparing and
administering Alaska offshore sociocultural research as Contracting
Officer's Technical Representative, and for developing new research
designs and anticipated study needs. He has a broad international and
intercultural background in development studies and resource management
consulting, with many publications in academic journals and book
presses.