[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 125 (Thursday, June 28, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 34444]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-16293]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-7004-2]


Announcement of the Board of Trustees for the National 
Environmental Education and Training Foundation, Inc.

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: 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 supports 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 
literal public.
    The Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as 
required by the terms of the Act, announces the following three 
appointments to the National Environmental Education and Training 
Foundation, Inc. Board of Trustees. The appointees are Thomas M. 
Ferguson, Chairman and CEO of the First Stanford Corporation; Dorothy 
P. McSweeny, former Foreign Service Officer, Agency for International 
Development; and Judge William S. Sessions, former Director of the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation. These appointees will join the current 
Board member which include: Walter Higgins, Chairman, President and 
C.E.O, Sierra Pacific Resources; James Donnelley, Stet & Query Limited 
Partnership; Dwight Minton, Chairman Emeritus, Church & Dwight; Braden 
Allenby, Vice President, Environment, Health and Safety, AT&T Richard 
Bartlett, Vice Chairman, Mary Kay Holding Corporation; Susan Clark-
Johnson, Chairman and CEO, Phoenix Newspapers, Inc.; Dorothy Jacobson, 
Consultant; Karen Bates Kress, President, KBK Consulting, Inc.; Fred 
Krupp, Executive Director, Environmental Defense Fund; and, Dennis 
Wheeler, Chairman, President and C.E.O, Coeur d'Alene Mines 
Corporation.
    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. These appointments shall be for a period of 
four years.

Appointee Biographies

    Thomas M. Ferguson has, since 1993, served as Director, Chairman, 
President and CEO of Le@p Technology, Inc., formally Seal Holdings 
Corporation, a publicly traded holding company focused on the 
acquisition and development of companies providing services in 
healthcare and life sciences. Within these fields, Le@p has a 
particular interest in information technology companies with Internet 
applications, engaging exclusively in friendly transactions developed 
in cooperation with a company's management, shareholders and board of 
directors. Since 1992, he has served First Sanford Corporation in Palm 
Beach, Florida, a private advisory company for maritime transactions 
and the development of strategic business/financial plans for national 
and international companies, as a Director, Chairman and President. Mr. 
Ferguson serves as a Director of Chamber Companies, LLC. He is the sole 
stockbroker of First Magnum Corporation, and its sole director and 
officer. Mr. Ferguson received a BA degree from Florida State 
University.
    Dorothy McSweeny, an oral historian, is a former Foreign Service 
Officer of the Agency for International Development. She is Chair for 
Community Development of the National Symphony Orchestra, Chair of 
Community Program of the Washington Ballet, and Vice-Chair of the D.C. 
Commission on Arts and the Humanities. Mrs. McSweeny serves on the 
boards of the National Wildflower Research Center, the Discovery Creek 
Washington Children's Museum, and the Boston University School of 
Medicine. Mrs. McSweeny is Vice President of the Environmentors board.
    William S. Sessions, Director of the Federal Bureau of 
Investigations from 1987 to 1993, is currently an attorney in private 
practice in San Antonio, Texas. He is a member of the Martin Luther 
King, Jr. Federal Holiday Commission, President of the District Judges 
Association of the 5th Circuit, Chairman of the Ethics Committee of the 
Federal Bar Association, and a member of the Executive Committee of 
Interpol. Judge Sessions was honored as the National Fathers Day 
Committee Father of the Year.

    Dated: June 21, 2001.
Christine Todd Whitman,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 01-16293 Filed 6-27-01; 8:45 am]
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