[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 150 (Friday, August 4, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44279-44280]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-12627]


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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[FRL-8205-7]


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

SUMMARY: The National Environmental Education and Training Foundation 
was created by Section 10 of 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 appointment 
to the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation, Inc. 
Board of Trustees. The appointees are Kenneth Strassner, Vice 
President--Global Environment, Safety, Regulatory and Scientific 
Affairs, Kimberly-Clark Corporation and Dr. Bradley F. Smith, Dean of 
Huxley College of the Environment at Western Washington University. The 
appointees will join the current Board members which include:
     J.L. Armstrong, National Manager, Diversity Development, 
Toyota Motor Sales, USA
     Braden Allenby, Vice President, Environment, Health and 
Safety, AT&T

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     Raymond Ban, Executive Vice President, Meteorology Science 
and Strategy, The Weather Channel, Inc.
     Richard Bartlett, (NEETF Chairman) Vice Chairman, Mary Kay 
Holding Corporation
     Holly Cannon, Principal of the Law Firm Beveridge⋄
     Arthur Gibson, Vice President, Environment, Health&Safety, 
The Home Depot, Inc.
     Dorothy Jacobson, Consultant
     Karen Bates Kress, President, KBK Consulting, Inc.
     Dorothy McSweeny, (NEETF Vice Chair), Chair, DC Commission 
on the Arts and Humanities
     Honorable William Sessions, former Director of the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation.
    Additional Considerations: Great care has been taken to assure that 
these new appointees not only have the highest degree of expertise and 
commitment, but also brings to the Board diverse points of view 
relating to environmental education and training. These appointments 
shall be for four year terms.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: C. Michael Baker, Acting Director, 
Environmental Education Division, Office of Children's Health 
Protection and Environmental Education (1704A) U.S. EPA 1200 
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460.

    Dated: July 27, 2006, BIOS of New Member.
Stephen L. Johnson,
Administrator.

Kenneth A. Strassner, Vice President, Global Environment, Safety, 
Regulatory and Scientific Affairs, Kimberly-Clark Corporation.

    Mr. Strassner is an honors graduate (magna cum laude) of Yale 
College (1968 and of Yale Law School (1974). Prior to joining Kimberly-
Clark in 1976, Mr. Strassner served as an officer in the U.S. Navy, 
practiced with a Washington, DC law firm and served as Executive 
Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety 
and Health. Mr. Strassner's legal specialties include U.S. and 
international environmental and energy law, product safety matters and 
occupational safety and health requirements. In 1988, Mr. Stassner was 
appointed Vice President-Environment and Energy, Kimberly-Clark 
Corporation, responsible for formulation of corporate policies and 
management of the Corporation's technical support staffs in both areas. 
His areas of responsibility were expanded in November 2004, and he now 
serves as Vice President-Global Environment, Safety, Regulatory and 
Scientific Affairs for Kimberly-Clark. In addition, Mr. Strassner is a 
member of various professional associations and is the current Chairman 
of the Corporate Environmental, Health and Safety Management 
Roundtable.

Bradley F. Smith, Vice President Dean of Huxley College of The 
Environment, Western Washington University.

    Bradley F. Smith was named Dean of Huxley College of the 
Environment at Western Washington University in September of 1994. 
Prior to his appointment, Dr. Smith had served for three years as the 
first Director of the Office of Environmental Education for the U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency. He also served as a Special Assistant 
to the administrator of the EPA and as Acting Associate Administrator 
for the EPA. Dr. Smith was appointed to the U.S. Senior Executive 
Service in 1992. Dr. Smith received his Ph.D. from the University of 
Michigan School of Natural Resources and the Environment. His BA and MA 
are in economics and political science.
    From 1975 to 1990, Dr. Smith was a professor of political science 
and biology, and concurrently was executive director of Michigan's 
Tobico Marsh National Refuge from 1982 to 1990. During this time, he 
also served as adjunct faculty at the Air Force Institute of Technology 
and the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and the 
Environment. Dr. Smith has been a Fulbright Scholar to England and a 
NATO Fellow. He holds adjunct faculty positions, in Russia, China, 
Holland and Japan. Concurrently, he serves as a senior advisor to 
General Motors Corporation VP Environment, Energy and Public Policy and 
the GM Foundation. He also is an external evaluator for the U.S. 
Department of Energy and is the President of the U.S. Council of 
Environmental Deans and Directors and President of the World 
Conservation Learning Network (an organization of some 400 universities 
based in Geneva, Switzerland). Formerly Dr. Smith served as an 
appointed member of President Clinton's Council for Sustainable 
Development (Education Task Force). His most recent publications 
include co-author of Environmental Science: A Study of 
Interrelationships, 10th edition 2004, and Environmental Science Field 
Guide and Laboratory Manual, 10th edition 2004, McGraw-Hill.

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