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No. 03-087 July 7, 2003

NRC APPOINTS SIX PEOPLE TO SENIOR HEADQUARTERS

AND REGIONAL MANAGEMENT POSITIONS

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has appointed six people to senior management

positions throughout the agency, including:

Samuel J. Collins as Deputy Executive Director for Reactor Programs;

James E. Dyer as Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR),

succeeding Collins;

R. William Borchardt as Deputy Director of NRR;

John W. Craig as Associate Director for Inspections and Programs in NRR, succeeding

Borchardt;

James L. Caldwell as Regional Administrator for the agency’s Region III office,

succeeding Dyer, and;

Geoffrey E. Grant as Deputy Regional Administrator for Region III, succeeding Caldwell.

The appointments will become effective over the next several weeks.

The Deputy Executive Director for Reactor Programs is responsible for effectively

implementing regulation and reactor-related activities of regional offices and the Headquarters

offices of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, Enforcement, and Investigations, as well as coordinating

reactor-related items with the offices of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards and Nuclear

Regulatory Research. NRR is responsible for ensuring public health and safety through licensing

and inspection activities at all commercial nuclear reactor facilities in the United States. The

NRC’s Region III office in Lisle, Illinois, deals with nuclear power plants and other NRC

licensees in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin.

Collins succeeds William F. Kane, who was recently named Deputy Executive Director

for Homeland Protection and Preparedness. Collins joined the NRC in 1980 as a Resident 
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Inspector in Region I, and was selected as a Senior Resident Inspector in 1982. He then served in

a variety of management positions of increasing responsibility in both Region I and Region IV. 

He became Region IV’s Deputy Regional Administrator in 1995 before assuming his current

position in 1997. Collins received a bachelor’s degree in Marine Engineering from the Maine

Maritime Academy.

Dyer joined the NRC in 1983 as an Inspector in the former Office of Inspection and

Enforcement. He later held positions in NRR and the Office of the Executive Director for

Operations (OEDO) at Headquarters before becoming Deputy Director of Region IV’s Division

of Reactor Projects in 1994. He was Director of that division from mid-1995 to early 1997, then

served as Deputy Regional Administrator in Region IV until 1999 when he assumed his current

position. Dyer received a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the University of California at

Davis, and an MBA from Frostburg State University in Maryland.

Borchardt joined the NRC in 1983 as a Reactor Engineer in Region I, later serving as a

Resident and Senior Resident Inspector. Starting in 1988, he held several Headquarters positions

in both NRR and OEDO. In 1993 he became a Project Director in the Standardization Project

Directorate, and in 1995 he became Chief of the Inspection Program Branch. Borchardt became 

Deputy Director of the Office of Enforcement in 1998, and served as the office’s Director from

1999 until assuming his current position in 2001. He received a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry

from the U.S. Naval Academy.

Craig joined the NRC in 1979, holding several positions in the former Office of

Inspection and Enforcement. He was named as Chief of NRR’s Plant Systems Branch in 1987

and later served as a Project Director. He held several senior management positions in the Office

of Nuclear Regulatory Research from 1993 to 2000, when he was appointed as Assistant for

Operations in OEDO. Since April, he has served as Chief of Staff in Chairman Nils Diaz’s

office. Craig received a bachelor’s degree in Nuclear Engineering from the University of

Maryland.

Caldwell joined the NRC in 1983 as a Resident Inspector in Region II, and later served as

a Senior Resident Inspector. In 1990 he transferred to Headquarters where he served in OEDO

and NRR. In 1994, he transferred to Region III and served in several Deputy Director and

Director positions until assuming his current position in 1997. Caldwell received a bachelor’s

degree in Electrical Engineering (Nuclear Engineering option) from Virginia Polytechnic

Institute and State University.

Grant joined the NRC in 1986 as a Resident Inspector in Region I, and later served as a

Senior Resident Inspector. In 1989 he transferred to Headquarters and served in several NRR

positions until his transfer to Region III in 1993 as Director of the Division of Reactor Safety. 

He has been Region III’s Director of the Division of Reactor Projects since 1997. Grant received

a bachelor’s degree from the U.S. Naval Academy.

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