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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

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National Environmental Education and Training Foundation, Inc. 
Announcement of New Appointments to the Board of Directors

    The National Environmental Education and Training Foundation was 
created by Public Law 101-619, the National Environmental Education Act 
of 1990. It is a private 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established 
to promote and support education and training as necessary tools to 
further environmental protection and sustainable, environmentally sound 
development. It provides the common ground upon which leaders from 
business and industry, all levels of government, public interest 
groups, and others can work cooperatively to expand the reach of 
environmental education and training programs beyond the traditional 
classroom. The Foundation will develop and support a grant program that 
promotes innovative environmental education and training programs; it 
will also develop partnerships with government and other organizations 
to administer projects that promote the development of an 
environmentally literate public.
    The Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as 
required by the terms of the Act, announces the following five 
appointments to the National Environmental Education and Training 
Foundation, Inc. Board of Directors. These appointees will join the 
seven current Board members, who include: Edward Bass, Chairman and CEO 
of Fine Line, Inc. and Chairman of Space Biospheres Ventures; Dr. James 
Crowfoot, Professor of Natural Resources and Urban and Regional 
Planning at the University of Michigan; Mark De Michele, President and 
CEO of Arizona Public Service Company; James Donnelley, Vice Chairman 
of the Board of R.R. Donnelley & Sons; Dr. Bonnie F. Guiton, Dean of 
the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia; Rebecca 
Rimel, Executive Director of the Pew Charitable Trusts; and Francis 
Pandolfi, President and CEO of Times Mirror Magazines, Inc. and 
Chairman of the Board of The Sporting News Publishing Company.
    Great care has been taken to assure that these new appointees not 
only have the highest degree of expertise and commitment, but also 
bring to the Board diverse points of view relating to environmental 
education and training. Terms of office for the new appointees are: Mr. 
Parks, Mr. Krupp, Mr. Dach and Ms. Muyskens four year terms with 
possibility of an additional four year reappointment; Ms. Tabankin two 
years with possibility of an additional four year reappointment. The 
five new appointees are:

R. Ralph Parks--Mr. Parks is currently a General Partner, Investment 
Banking Division, Goldman Sachs & Company. From 1970 through 1980 he 
was Managing Director, Investment Banking Division, Merrill Lynch. He 
has a B.A. in History from Rice University and an M.B.A. from Columbia 
University School of Business.
Fred Krupp--Mr. Krupp is the Executive Director of the Environmental 
Defense Fund. He is also a member of the President's Council on 
Sustainable Development, serves on New York Governor Cuomo's 
Environmental Advisory Board, the Connecticut Fund for the Environment 
and the National Commission on Superfund. Mr. Krupp is a graduate of 
Yale University with a law degree from the University of Michigan.
Sarah Muyskens--Ms. Muyskens is a Management Consultant specializing in 
non-profits. She has worked at the Wilderness Society and the 
Environmental Defense Fund. Ms. Muyskens is on the Board of the Vermont 
Natural Resources Council and the Governor's Council of Environmental 
Advisors. Ms. Muyskens has a degree in British History from Yale 
University.
Leslie Dach--Mr. Dach is presently Executive Vice President/General 
Manager of Edelman Public Relations. He has over 15 years of experience 
in politics, lobbying, and press. While at Edelman he managed 
StarKist's announcement of its Dolphin Safe policy and a worldwide 
environmental communications policy for Johnson Wax. As a lobbyist, he 
worked for Audubon Society and the Environmental Defense Fund. He has 
also managed lobbying coalitions for the entire environmental movement 
on major pollution legislation. Mr. Dach has a B.S. in Biology from 
Yale and a M.P.A. from Harvard.
Margery Tabankin--Currently is the executive director of the Hollywood 
Women's Political Committee and the Barbara Streisand Foundation. 
Previously, Ms. Tabankin was an Institute of Politics Fellow at 
Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and served as the 
executive director of the Arca Foundation and the director of VISTA. 
Ms. Tabankin has a B.A. in political science from the University of 
Wisconsin.

    Dated: February 22, 1994.
Carol M. Browner,
Administrator.
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