Nomination of Harry M. Snyder To Be Director of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement

The President today announced his intention to nominate Harry M. Snyder to be Director of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, Department of the Interior. He would succeed Robert H. Gentile.

Mr. Snyder is resident vice president for State relations for CSX Corp. in Kentucky. He has served as director of finance and legal counsel and then executive director for the Kentucky Council on Higher Education. He has also been a member of the finance staff of the University of Kentucky and served as legal counsel and a professor of commercial and constitutional law at Georgetown College.

Mr. Snyder graduated from Georgetown College (B.S., 1963) and the University of Kentucky College of Law in 1966. He was born in Corbin, KY, in 1941 and grew up in London, KY. He has two daughters and resides in Lexington, KY.