Head of U.S. Energy Panel Quits
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WASHINGTON — Raymond J. O’Connor, citing personal and family reasons, abruptly resigned today as chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which regulates the natural gas, electric utility and oil pipeline industries.
A New York investment banker before assuming the $73,000-a-year job as the commission’s chairman in November, 1983, O’Connor notified the White House this morning that he will leave Jan. 31.
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