Arlen L. Lancaster was appointed as the Chief of the

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(USDA) Natural Resource Conservation Service by USDA Secretary

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on August 23, 2006. Prior to the appointment, he served as USDA Deputy Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations. Before that, Lancaster worked as a congressional aide for Senators

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(R-ID) and Bob Bennett (R-UT) and on the Senate Subcommittee on Forestry, Conservation, and Rural Revitalization. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the

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in 1998.

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