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No. 99-233

October 29, 1999

NOTE TO EDITORS:

The new Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Richard A. Meserve, was sworn in this afternoon by the Honorable Neal Lane, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, in a brief ceremony at the NRC's headquarters in Rockville, Maryland.

Dr. Meserve comes to the Commission from the Washington, D.C. law firm of Covington and Burling, where he was a partner. He holds a Ph.D. in applied physics from Stanford, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a B.A. from Tufts University.

The text of his remarks at the ceremony will be available on the NRC web site at http://www.nrc.gov/OPA/gmo/nrarcv/s99-34.html .

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