FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 14, 1999
CONTACT: Leslie Peterson
303-275-1233 peterson@wapa.gov
GOLDEN, Colo.-Larry Y. Shiao, a hydraulic engineer at Western Area Power Administration in Loveland, Colo., received the agency's 1999 Exceptional Service Award today.
Administrator Mike Hacskaylo presented the award to Shiao at a special ceremony in Loveland. Shiao is one of five Western employees to receive the award this year.
Given annually, the Exceptional Service Award is based on outstanding overall service, improving departmental goals, accomplishing responsibilities in an exemplary manner, showing unusual initiative, demonstrating outstanding executive or technical ability and displaying unusual devotion to duty. It is the highest honor that can be granted by Western's administrator.
Shiao began his Federal career in 1978 with the U.S. Geological Survey as a research hydrologist. He graduated from Colorado State University with a doctorate in civil engineering the same year. In 1979, he came to Western.
At Western, Shiao is recognized as an expert on hydrology, reservoir operations and hydropower. He also has represented Western and the United States in hydropower projects in China and Armenia, and has conducted numerous tours for visiting Chinese dignitaries. A native of Chong-King, China, Shiao resides in Englewood, Colo., with his wife Amy and his children Stephen, 21, and Jennifer, 12.
Western Area Power Administration annually markets and transmits more than 10,000 megawatts of power from hydroelectric powerplants owned and operated by the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 15 central and western states.
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