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For Immediate Release: July 23, 2012
Contact: Rob Thormeyer, 202-898-9382, rthormeyer@naruc.org

D.C.'s Kane, Minn.'s Boyd Elected to Lead NRRI Board

PORTLAND--District of Columbia Public Service Commission Chair Betty Ann Kane July 21 was elected Chair of the National Regulatory Research Institute Board of Directors. Board members also elected Commissioner David Boyd of Minnesota as Vice Chair of the NRRI Board.

Both will serve a one-year term.

The elections occurred during NRRI’s Board of Directors meeting in Portland, Ore. The meeting coincides with the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners’ Summer Committee Meetings. NRRI is the research arm of NARUC, which is the national association representing State public service commissions who regulate essential utility services.

NRRI Board Chair Kane was elected after serving as Vice Chair since July 2011. She has chaired the D.C. PSC since March 2007. She has also served as President of the Mid-Atlantic Conference of Regulatory Utility Commissioners and as Chair of the North American Numbering Council. In addition, she serves on the NARUC Committee on Telecommunications.

Vice Chair Boyd was appointed to the Minnesota commission in July 2007, and he has served as chairman three years during his tenure. He serves as a member of the NARUC Committee on Electricity, the Committee on International Relations, Subcommittee on Clean Coal and Carbon Sequestration, Subcommittee on Education and Research, and Chairs the Subcommittee on Nuclear Issues-Waste Disposal.

NARUC is a non-profit organization founded in 1889 whose members include the governmental agencies that are engaged in the regulation of utilities and carriers in the fifty States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. NARUC's member agencies regulate telecommunications, energy, and water utilities. NARUC represents the interests of State public utility commissions before the three branches of the Federal government.