The Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC), which has played a key role in the de facto moratorium on oil and gas drilling in the basin, will soon begin a search for a new executive director, following Carol Collier‘s announcement that she will retire March 12, 2014. Collier was sworn in as the commission’s third executive director in 1998, becoming the first woman to head an interstate-federal compact agency, according to DRBC. Prior to taking the top staff position with DRBC, Collier served as executive director for Pennsylvania’s 21st Century Environment Commission, was regional director of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Southeast Region and worked 19 years with BCM Environmental Engineers. She is currently the national president of the American Water Resources Association. The multi-state commission has regulatory jurisdiction over the 13,539-square mile Delaware River watershed in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Delaware. The commission is represented by the governors of the four states, as well as a representative of the Army Corps of Engineers.