"Interior Secretary David Bernhardt signed a secretarial order today keeping William Perry Pendley at the helm of the Bureau of Land Management for an additional four months and appointing two others to unfilled positions at the Interior Department.
Pendley will stay on as BLM chief through Jan. 3. Bernhardt also named David Vela, the former superintendent of Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, as acting director of the National Park Service and Lanny Erdos as acting director of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement.
E&E News reported last week that Vela would replace P. Daniel Smith as acting NPS director (Greenwire, Sept. 27). President Trump nominated Vela for the position last year, but he has not been confirmed by the Senate."
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