WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Geological Survey chief resigned Thursday, but a spokeswoman said his departure has nothing to do with the ongoing investigation into e-mails that indicate his agency's employees may have falsified data on the Yucca Mountain project.
Charles Groat, who has been in charge of the agency since November 1998, will leave the federal government post on June 17 to go work for the University of Texas at Austin. Carolyn Bell, a USGS spokeswoman said the university has been courting him for some time and probably finally "sweetened the pot' enough for him to take a position there.
Bell said Groat had worked in Texas before and most people assumed he would go back there.
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