For Immediate Release

BETHLEHEM, Pa., December 14, 2001 - Bethlehem Steel Corporation has taken another step toward streamlining its management structure by announcing an organizational realignment of its operating facilities and its corporate staff. Following up on retirement announcements made yesterday, Bethlehem said that it would reassign responsibility for the positions that have been eliminated.

"Our organizational structure now more closely aligns our new leadership to those key objectives that require our utmost attention at this time," said Robert S. Miller, Jr., chairman and chief executive officer. "We must and will reduce costs, reduce organizational layers and streamline decision-making."

Bethlehem's operations will include the Burns Harbor, Ind., Division, which includes the Lackawanna, N.Y., operations and Chicago Cold Rolled in Indiana; the Sparrows Point, Md., Division; and the Pennsylvania Division, which has three facilities - Pennsylvania Steel Technologies, Inc., and the Conshohocken and Coatesville plants. Andrew R. Futchko, vice president and general manager, has been named to lead the new Pennsylvania Division. Ronald F. Chango will continue as president of Burns Harbor and Van R. Reiner as president of Sparrows Point.

In addition, Bethlehem said that it has formed a new department at the corporate level called operations services and has appointed Robert J. Jones as vice president. He will be responsible for transportation, logistics, safety, health and the environment, and the subsidiary railroads. He will also assist Mr. Miller on corporate-wide operations planning and improvement activities. Mr. Jones is moving from Bethlehem's Burns Harbor Division where he was vice president, operations.

Named to lead the commercial function is Daniel G. Mull, vice president and chief commercial officer, who has 28 years of commercial experience with Bethlehem Steel.

Blaise E. Derrico has been elected treasurer of the corporation and will report to Leonard M. Anthony, senior vice president and chief financial officer, who previously held the treasurer's post. Mr. Anthony will have the additional responsibility for business services, strategic planning and business development, and information technology.

Bethlehem said that it will continue to review each organizational unit structure to ensure maximum efficiency.

Mr. Futchko holds a bachelor of science in fuel technology from The Pennsylvania State University and attended advanced management programs at Pennsylvania State University in 1988 and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1997. He has worked in a variety of fuel and maintenance capacities at Bethlehem facilities in New York and Pennsylvania. In 1992, Mr. Futchko was appointed president of the Steelton Rail Products and Pipe Division and in later that year as president of the wholly owned subsidiary Pennsylvania Steel Technologies. Earlier this year, he accepted a special assignment as assistant to the president for operations planning.

Mr. Jones holds a bachelor of engineering degree in mechanical engineering from Villanova University and attended the Stanford University Executive Program in 1995. He began his Bethlehem career in 1966 in steelmaking positions in Pennsylvania before moving to Bethlehem's Sparrows Point Division in 1983 where he was superintendent of steelmaking and later of the cold sheet mill, playing a leadership role in the development of that new $300-million facility. Mr. Jones then worked as vice president, operations, at Pennsylvania Steel Technologies in 1998 and then moved to the same position at Burns Harbor in April 2000.

Mr. Mull holds a bachelor of science degree in accounting from The Pennsylvania State University received in 1973 and attended the Advanced Executive Program at Northwestern University in 1995. His sales career included increasingly responsible sales management positions in New York, Texas and Illinois. Mr. Mull was named manager of sales in Bethlehem's Chicago sales office in 1992 and then served as product marketing manager for plates. His most recent position was vice president, commercial, at Bethlehem's Burns Harbor Division.

Mr. Derrico received a bachelor of arts in accounting from Franklin and Marshall College in 1976 and a master of business administration degree from Moravian College in 1994. He has served in a wide variety of financial and accounting positions. In 1987, Mr. Derrico was named manager, investor relations, and, over the years, assumed additional responsibilities in credit and financial planning. He was given the additional responsibility of assistant treasurer in 1999.

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