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PRESIDENT BUSH ANNOUNCES INTENT TO NOMINATE J. PAUL GILMAN AS EPA ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR FOR R&D

Release Date: 10/25/2001
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FOR RELEASE: THURSDAY, OCT. 25, 2001

President Bush has announced his intention to nominate J. Paul Gilman to be EPA Assistant Administrator for Research and Development.
In that position, when confirmed by the U.S. Senate, he would be responsible for EPA’s research arm comprised of three National Laboratories, two National Centers and two Washington-based science support offices. The Agency’s R&D intramural and extramural science program is accomplished by a staff of 2,000 employees at 13 locations nationwide and is dedicated to the conduct of leading-edge research and fostering the sound use of science and technology to fulfill EPA’s mission to protect human health and safeguard the natural environment.

Gilman has directed research integration and policy planning at Celera Genomics, Rockville, Md., since Oct. 1998. From March 1993 to September 1998, he concurrently held the position of Executive Director of both the Commission on Life Sciences and the Board on Agriculture at the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences.

Since 1999, Gilman has served on the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology of the National Research Council. He currently is the acting chair of the U.S. Department of Energy Laboratory Operations Board and a member of the Board of Directors of Triton Thalassic Technologies.

Previous positions held by Gilman include Associate Director, White House Office of Management and Budget; Executive Assistant to the Secretary of Energy; Administrative Assistant to U.S. Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) and Staff Director, U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development. He holds B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Johns Hopkins University. His doctorate degree was in ecology and evolutionary biology.

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