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>From the Surface Transportation Board, Washington, D.C.
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Surface Transportation Board Chairman Daniel R. Elliott, III announced
today, January 5, 2010, that the agency designated Board Member Francis P.
Mulvey as its Vice Chairman. He succeeds former Board Chairman (August 14,
2006-March 12, 2009) Charles D. Nottingham, who most recently served as
Vice Chairman from March 13, 2009 to January 4, 2010, and continues to
serve as a Board Member. The Board's Vice Chairmanship rotates among the
Members on an annual basis.
Vice Chairman Mulvey, the eighth
Member since the Board's creation
in 1996, was nominated to the
agency by President George W.
Bush on November 17, 2003, and
was confirmed by the Senate on
May 21, 2004, for a term of
office ending December 31, 2007.
President Bush nominated the Vice
Chairman to a second term as a
Member on November 30, 2007, and
he was confirmed by the Senate on
December 19, 2007, for a term
ending December 31, 2012. Vice
Chairman Mulvey was designated
the Board's Acting Chairman on
March 12, 2009, by President
Barack Obama, and he served in
that capacity until August 13,
2009.
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