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''The current TPC director should be reassigned and not be allowed to return to his position at the center,'' said the report by the team, assigned by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to look into the management situation at the center in West Miami-Dade County.
''This should be done due to his failure to demonstrate leadership within the TPC rather than his public statements about the QuikScat satellite or NOAA leadership,'' the report concludes.
Proenza, who ran the center for only six months before being relieved of duty, vigorously defended himself Thursday during testimony to members of the House Committee on Science and Technology.
He said he was being punished for his complaints about the dying QuikScat satellite and NOAA's delay in replacing it and for occasionally bucking management in other ways.
''I dared to call attention to it [QuikScat] and, by golly, I'm going to pay the price for bringing this to the American people,'' he told the committee. ``I have been chastised, threatened, recommended for reassignment and discredited after 40 years of service to my country.''
Nevertheless, he said, he expected to return to his post at the hurricane center.
''I'm still the center's director,'' he testified. ``I need to get back to work. I'm ready to repair bruised relationships wherever they may be.''
Personally, I don't think it's in the NHC's best interests if Proenza returned.