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FORMER SME President J. Steven Gardner has withdrawn his name from consideration to be the director of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) in the Department of the Interior.
Gardner, president and chief executive officer of ESCI LLC, a Lexington, KY-based consulting firm, was nominated to lead the OSMRE in October 2017 by President Donald Trump. In a statement, Gardner, who served as president of SME in 2015, said he made the difficult decision to withdraw his name following a vetting process that has...