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No. 98-201 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(Wednesday, November 4, 1998)

NRC CHAIRMAN ANNOUNCES SENIOR MANAGEMENT

REASSIGNMENTS AND RETIREMENTS

Chairman Shirley Ann Jackson of the Nuclear Regulatory

Commission today announced the following senior management

reassignments and retirements:

ˇ Frank J. Miraglia Jr., currently Deputy Director of the

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR), will become

the Deputy Executive Director for Regulatory Programs.

He will succeed Hugh L. Thompson Jr., who is retiring.

ˇ Roy Zimmerman, currently Associate Director for

Projects in NRR, will succeed Mr. Miraglia as NRR

Deputy Director.

Both of these appointments are effective December 1.

ˇ Dr. Malcolm R. Knapp, who is now Deputy Director of the

Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards

(NMSS), will become the Deputy Executive Director for

Regulatory Effectiveness. This position has been

vacant since Dr. William D. Travers left it to become

Executive Director for Operations. This change is

effective November 16.

ˇ Martin Virgilio, who has been Executive Assistant and

Director of the Office of the Chairman, will become the

new Deputy Director of NMSS. This appointment is

effective December 14.

ˇ Michael Weber, currently Deputy Director of the

Division of Waste Management in NMSS, will succeed Mr.

Virgilio on the Chairman’s staff.

Chairman Jackson also announced the retirement of Carlton R.

Stoiber, Director of the Office of International Programs. His

successor will be named later.
Mr. Miraglia has been NRR Deputy Director since April 1990.

He has held a number of responsible headquarters positions since

transferring to NRR from the Atomic Energy Commission in 1975.

Mr. Zimmerman has held his current NRR post since June 1994.

He is a former NRR Deputy Division Director and, during his

career with the agency, has served in two regional division

director posts and as an inspector.

Dr. Knapp recently returned to NMSS after a lengthy detail

as Acting Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Research. He

is a former division director in both NMSS and NRC Region I.

Mr. Virgilio has been in his present position since March

1997. He is a former Deputy Division Director in NRR, where he

has served in a variety of other posts since joining NRC in 1977.

Mr. Weber was named to his present NMSS post in July after a

number of senior assignments in NMSS.

Mr. Thompson has held his Deputy EDO position since January

1997. Before that appointment, he had served since 1989 as

Deputy Executive Director for Nuclear Materials Safety,

Safeguards and Operations Support. He has held many other senior

positions since joining NRC’s predecessor organization, the

Atomic Energy Commission, in 1972 after service as an officer in

the Navy’s nuclear submarine force.

Mr. Stoiber has directed the Office of International

Programs since April 1993. He previously served in the NRC

Office of the General Counsel, and is a veteran of service in the

Department of State and the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament

Agency.

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