Senate Approves Nominees for NTIA, NTSB, Saint Lawrence Seaway, NOAA, and USCG

December 11, 2006

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The United States Senate early Saturday morning unanimously approved nominees discharged from the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee for positions with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Board, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the United States Coast Guard (USCG).

 
Discharged from the Senate Commerce Committee and approved by the Senate:

John M. R. Kneuer, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, and head the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)

PN 2062 – Steven Chealander - Nominated to be a Member National Transportation Safety Board

PN 2112 – Charles Dorkey III - Nominated to Board of Directors Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation

PN 2086 – Rear Admiral Cynthia A. Coogan to be Director of the Coast Guard Reserve 
  
PN 2093 – Raymond C. Slagle to be a Captain in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
 
PN 2094 –  Sixteen Promotions in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to the rank of Ensign

PN 2131 – Greg  E. Versaw to be a Lieutenant in the Coast Guard

PN 2154 –  Two Hundred and Thirty-Two Coast Guard Promotions to the rank of Lieutenant Commander
 
PN 2185 –  Andrea L. Contratto and Stephen B. Nye to the rank of Captain in the Coast Guard Reserve