Birnbaum named chief of Minerals Management Service - Denver Business Journal:

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Birnbaum was appointed by Ken Salazar, secretaryt of the and a formerColorado senator. The post doesn’g require Senate confirmation. The agency manages the nation’a offshore Renewable Energy Program as well as the development ofnatural gas, oil and other mineral resourcees on the Outer Continental Shelf. It also collectds and disburses morethan $13 billion per year in revenues from federally ownee offshore mineral leases and from onshorde mineral leases on federa l and American Indian lands.
In September the Interior Department’s inspector general issuedr three reports detailinga sex-and-drugs-fueled, party-likr atmosphere in the MMS’s “royalty-in-kind” divisioh responsible for accepting natural gas and oil from federall lands in lieu of cash royalthy payments. Birnbaum is a former attorney for the Interiot Department from 2000to 2001, supervising othef lawyers providing legal advice on minerals issuees for MMS, the Bureau of Land Management and the Officw of Surface Mining and More recently, she was stafrf director of the Committee on House Administration for the U.S.
House of Representatives, which manages legislative Between 2001and 2007, Birnbaumn was vice president for government affairsd and general counsel for American Rivers, where she directeed advocacy programs for the nation’s leading river conservation organization. Birnbaum replaces Randall Luthias director. Sincr Luthi’s departure in January, Deputy Directo Walter Cruickshank served asacting