Grundy Reporter

Dresden Nuclear Power Station, Unit 2 issued the following announcement on Oct. 30.

Three NRC officials are among 139 career public servants selected to receive the FY 2018

Presidential Rank Award. The award is one of the highest given to government employees, and

recognizes and celebrates their sustained extraordinary accomplishments.

The NRC recipients are: Margaret M. Doane, previously the agency’s general counsel and now

its executive director for operations; Anne T. Boland, director of the Office of Enforcement; and

Thomas W. Rich, a division director in the Office of the Chief Information Officer.

“These three senior officials at the NRC have distinguished themselves through consistent and

exceptionally high performance in service to this agency and the American people,” said NRC

Chairman Kristine L. Svinicki. “I join with the entire agency as we honor them and offer our

congratulations.”

Doane joined the NRC in 1991 and has held increasingly important leadership roles. She served

as director of the NRC’s Office of International Programs and later became the agency’s general

counsel. In that role, she served as the chief legal officer for the agency and principal legal advisor to

the Chairman and the Commission on matters of law and legal policy in support of the NRC’s mission.

Additionally, she worked closely with other government agencies and the White House to advise and

represent the NRC in matters concerning international nuclear safety organizations, committees of

Congress, foreign governments and non-governmental organizations. In 2018, she was appointed EDO,

the highest career position in the NRC, and serves as the agency’s chief operating officer.

Her career accomplishments include successfully defending the Continued Storage Rule, which

allowed commercial nuclear power plant licensing and license renewal to resume; ensuring that the

legal framework existed to support the U.S. and NRC response to the Fukushima nuclear reactor

accident; and providing innovative leadership to the legal team addressing unique issues associated

with small modular reactors.

Boland joined the NRC in 1985 as a radiation specialist in the NRC’s Region II office in

Atlanta. She held progressively more responsible positions in that office and in the agency’s Region III

office, in Lisle, Ill., before moving to the NRC headquarters to serve as a division director in the Office

of Nuclear Reactor Regulation and as acting deputy office director in the Office of Regulatory

Research. Currently, as the director of the Office of Enforcement, she leads an office of highly skilled

scientists and engineers in developing and implementing policies and programs for enforcement,

allegations, and safety culture programs.

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Her career accomplishments include exceptional leadership in overseeing safety enhancements

at an Ohio nuclear plant after significant reactor components were found degraded; superior leadership

of agency-wide efforts to address groundwater contamination issues around power plants; and the safe

resumption of certain cancer treatments at a Department of Veterans Affairs medical center after the

identification of significant performance issues.

Rich began his career with the NRC in 1986 as an engineering aide in the Co-Operative

Education Program. During his 31 years of service, he has held positions of increasing responsibility in

a broad spectrum of technical positions. He performed licensing, inspection and rulemaking activities

related to nuclear materials; and served in a number of supervisory positions, including as lead of the

Materials and Waste Applications Team and as deputy director in the Information and Records Services

Division. Currently, as division director of the Information Technology Services Development and

Operations Division, he oversees the technology service lifecycle, from design through deployment and

maintenance. He manages an annual budget of some $70 million and oversees a technical staff of

around 70.

His career accomplishments include providing exceptional leadership in developing guidance

used by the NRC and Agreement States to review and approve sealed radiation sources and devices for

licensing, serving on high-profile inspection teams, and providing critical leadership in improving the

agency’s cybersecurity posture and processes.

Original source can be found here.