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It is important to help the underserved or the disadvantaged make
contributions to society as they have overcome many barriers and obstacles in

their lives. I witnessed students speak about how the adult education program
teachers, administrators, and partners changed their lives from one of despair
to hope, stability, and success: full-time employment, enrolling in college,

completing high school, reading to a child. As the result of being highly
successful in leading the high performing Monitoring and Administrative
Team, I was awarded cash awards, step increases, bonuses, and other

recognitions.

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

I am Earl P. Mink, a Korean W ar veteran, and I served in several Agencies,

including the Department of Energy . Over half of my adult life has been in
service to my country . The war service was particularly terrible for many of
us and the civil service was often done with personal financial sacrifice.

During my career, I helped to set up the Peace Corps; provided development
and training for a professional Civil Service W orkforce in the Department of
Labor, Office of Education, Office of Equal Employment Opportunity and the
Department of Energy . My work helped to make the Service faster and more

efficient. The Federal Civil Service workforce provides the “hands” and work
to do the tasks assigned by Congress, and we do it with enthusiasm and

dedication.

I am David W . Pyatt and I served in the Department of Energy (DOE) and
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) from 1979 to 1989. I worked as
a nuclear safety specialist, developing regulations to assure the safety of 100+

commercial power reactors. I followed this up with leading research
programs to measure how effective these new regulations were, following the
event at Three Mile Island. From 1989 until my retirement in 2008, I was at

DOE utilizing my experience to provide an adequate safety basis to update
aging facilities used to develop our current nuclear stockpile. This was used
to address and consolidate nuclear waste sites, and plan for new facilities to

update our current and future National needs.

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