[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 79 (Tuesday, April 23, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17891-17892]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-9977]



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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-5460-6]


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

    The National Environmental Education and Training Foundation 
(NEETF) 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. NEETF 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 operates a grant 
program that promotes innovative environmental education and training 
programs; it also develops 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 appointment of Walter 
M. Higgins to the NEETF Board of Directors. Walter Higgins is President 
and Chief Executive Officer of Sierra Pacific Power Company and Sierra 
Pacific Resources, a diversified utility holding company in Reno, 
Nevada. Prior to 1993 when he joined Sierra Pacific Resources, Mr. 
Higgins was the President of the Louisville Gas and Electric Company in 
Kentucky, and prior to that he was with the Portland General Electric 
Company (PGE) in Oregon for 14 years. In the mid-1980's he was 
President of PGE's first non-utility subsidiary, an energy conservation 
and cogeneration company.
    Education: Mr. Higgins graduated with distinction from the U.S. 
Naval Academy with a degree in Nuclear Science; two years of Navy 
postgraduate nuclear engineering training; George Washington University 
graduate business studies; Public Utility Executive Course at the 
University of Idaho; and Stanford University Graduate School of 
Business Executive Program.
    Organizations: Mr. Higgins has a great deal of experience with a 
number of organization including the following--Board of Trustees of 
the Nature Conservancy of Nevada; Board of Directors of the Reno United 
Way; Edison Electric Institute Board of Directors; Pacific Coast Gas 
Association Board of Directors; Western Energy and Communication 
Association Board of Directors and Executive Board of Nevada Area 
Council Boy Scouts of America.
    Mr. Higgins appointment to the NEETF Board of Directors will be for 
a 4-year term. Great care is taken to assure that each new appointee to 
the thirteen-member NEETF Board has the highest degree of expertise and 
commitment, and also brings to the Board diverse

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points of view relating to environmental education and training.

    Dated: April 15, 1996.
Carol M. Browner,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 96-9977 Filed 4-22-96; 8:45 am]
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