Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 135 / Monday, July 15, 2013 / Notices 42069 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9833–8] 

Announcement of the Board of 

Directors for the National 

Environmental Education Foundation 

AGENCY: Office of External Affairs and 

Environmental Education, 

Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The National Environmental 

Education Foundation (NEEF) 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 literate 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 

Foundation Board of Trustees. The 

appointee is Shannon Schuyler, 

Corporate Responsibility Leader and 

Senior Managing Director of 

PricewaterhouseCoopers. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information regarding this Notice of 

Appointment, please contact Mrs. 

Stephanie Owens, Deputy Associate 

Administrator, Office of External Affairs 

and Environmental Education (1701A), 

U.S. EPA 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460. General 

information concerning NEEF can be 

found on their Web site at: http:// 

www.neefusa.org. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Additional Considerations: Great care 

has been taken to assure that this new 

appointee not only has the highest 

degree of expertise and commitment, 

but also brings to the Board diverse 

points of view relating to environmental 

education. This appointment is a fouryear term which may be renewed once 

for an additional four years pending 

successful re-election by the NEEF 

nominating committee. 

This appointee will join the current 

Board members which include: 

• Arthur Gibson (NEEF Chair), Vice 

President, Environment, Health and 

Safety, Baxter Healthcare Corporation 

• JL Armstrong (NEEF Vice Chair), 

National Manager, Toyota Motor Sales, 

USA, Inc. 

• Kenneth Strassner (NEEF 

Treasurer), Vice President, Global 

Environment, Safety, Regulatory and 

Scientific Affairs, Kimberly-Clark 

Corporation 

• Diane Wood (NEEF Secretary), 

President, National Environmental 

Education Foundation 

• Decker Anstrom, Former CEO, The 

Weather Channel Companies 

• Raymond Ban, Executive Vice 

President, The Weather Channel 

• Holly Cannon, Principal, Beveridge 

and Diamond, P.C. 

• Megan Reilly Cayton, Co-Founder 

and CEO, Catrinka, LLC 

• Phillipe Cousteau, Co-Founder and 

CEO, EarthEcho International 

• Manuel Alberto Diaz, Partner, 

Lydecker Diaz, L.L.P. 

• Trish Silber, President, Aliniad 

Consulting Partners, Inc. 

• Bradley Smith, Dean, Huxley 

College of the Environment, Western 

Washington University 

• Wonya Lucas, Former CEO, TV One 

Background: Section 10(a) of the 

National Environmental Education Act 

of 1990 mandates a National 

Environmental Education Foundation. 

The Foundation is established in order 

to extend the contribution of 

environmental education and training to 

meeting critical environmental 

protection needs, both in this country 

and internationally; to facilitate the 

cooperation, coordination, and 

contribution of public and private 

resources to create an environmentally 

advanced educational system; and to 

foster an open and effective partnership 

among Federal, State, and local 

government, business, industry, 

academic institutions, community based 

environmental groups, and international 

organizations. 

The Foundation is a charitable and 

nonprofit corporation whose income is 

exempt from tax, and donations to 

which are tax deductible to the same 

extent as those organizations listed 

pursuant to section 501(c) of the 

Internal Revenue Code of 1986. The 

Foundation is not an agency or 

establishment of the United States. The 

purposes of the Foundation are— 

(A) Subject to the limitation contained 

in the final sentence of subsection (d) 

herein, to encourage, accept, leverage, 

and administer private gifts for the 

benefit of, or in connection with, the 

environmental education and training 

activities and services of the United 

States Environmental Protection 

Agency; 

(B) to conduct such other 

environmental education activities as 

will further the development of an 

environmentally conscious and 

responsible public, a well-trained and 

environmentally literate workforce, and 

an environmentally advanced 

educational system; 

(C) to participate with foreign entities 

and individuals in the conduct and 

coordination of activities that will 

further opportunities for environmental 

education and training to address 

environmental issues and problems 

involving the United States and Canada 

or Mexico. 

The Foundation develops, supports, 

and/or operates programs and projects 

to educate and train educational and 

environmental professionals, and to 

assist them in the development and 

delivery of environmental education 

and training programs and studies. 

The Foundation has a governing 

Board of Directors (hereafter referred to 

in this section as ‘the Board’), which 

consists of 13 directors, each of whom 

shall be knowledgeable or experienced 

in the environment, education and/or 

training. The Board oversees the 

activities of the Foundation and assures 

that the activities of the Foundation are 

consistent with the environmental and 

education goals and policies of the 

Environmental Protection Agency and 

with the intents and purposes of the 

Act. The membership of the Board, to 

the extent practicable, represents 

diverse points of view relating to 

environmental education and training. 

Members of the Board are appointed by 

the Administrator of the Environmental 

Protection Agency. 

Within 90 days of the date of the 

enactment of the National 

Environmental Education Act, and as 

appropriate thereafter, the 

Administrator will publish in the 

Federal Register an announcement of 

appointments of Directors of the Board. 

Such appointments become final and 

effective 90 days after publication in the 

Federal Register. The directors are 

appointed for terms of 4 years. The 

Administrator shall appoint an 

individual to serve as a director in the 

event of a vacancy on the Board within 

60 days of said vacancy in the manner 

in which the original appointment was 


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made. No individual may serve more 

than 2 consecutive terms as a director. 

Dated: June 28, 2013. 

Bob Perciasepe, 

Acting Administrator. 

Shannon L. Schuyler 

Ms. Schuyler has been Corporate 

Responsibility Leader and Senior 

Managing Director of 

PricewaterhouseCoopers since 2007. 

Ms. Schuyler was Alumni Relations 

Managing Director of 

PricewaterhouseCoopers since 2005, 

National HR Director since 2002, ABAS 

HR Leader since 2000, GRMS HR Leader 

since 1999, National Recruiting Leader 

since 1998, Cluster Recruiting Leader of 

Coopers & Lybrand LLP since 1996, 

Executive Recruiter of Jacobson 

Associates since 1995 and Freelance 

Communications work since 1994. 

She serves on the board of the Society 

for Human Resource Management, 

Leadership Greater Chicago 2010 

Fellow, MIND Resource Institute 

National Advisory Board, Women and 

the Green Economy Advisory Board, 

Boston College Center for Corporate 

Citizenship Advisory Committee, SAP 

Sustainability Executive Advisory 

Council and Taproot Board. 

Ms. Schuyler earned a bachelor’s 

degree in Arts—English at University of 

Michigan. 

[FR Doc. 2013–16900 Filed 7–12–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9833–9] 

Announcement of the Board of 

Directors for the National 

Environmental Education Foundation 

AGENCY: Office of External Affairs and 

Environmental Education, 

Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The National Environmental 

Education Foundation (NEEF) 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 literate 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 

Foundation Board of Trustees. The 

appointee is Carlos Alcazar, Chief 

Executive Officer of Hispanic 

Communications Network. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information regarding this Notice of 

Appointment, please contact Mrs. 

Stephanie Owens, Deputy Associate 

Administrator, Office of External Affairs 

and Environmental Education (1701A), 

U.S. EPA, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW., 

Washington, DC 20460. General 

information concerning NEEF can be 

found on their Web site at: http:// 

www.neefusa.org. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Additional Considerations: Great care 

has been taken to assure that this new 

appointee not only has the highest 

degree of expertise and commitment, 

but also brings to the Board diverse 

points of view relating to environmental 

education. This appointment is a fouryear term which may be renewed once 

for an additional four years pending 

successful re-election by the NEEF 

nominating committee. 

This appointee will join the current 

Board members which include: 

• Arthur Gibson (NEEF Chair), Vice 

President, Environment, Health and 

Safety, Baxter Healthcare Corporation 

• JL Armstrong (NEEF Vice Chair), 

National Manager, Toyota Motor Sales, 

USA, Inc. 

• Kenneth Strassner (NEEF 

Treasurer), Vice President, Global 

Environment, Safety, Regulatory and 

Scientific Affairs, Kimberly-Clark 

Corporation 

• Diane Wood (NEEF Secretary), 

President, National Environmental 

Education Foundation 

• Decker Anstrom, Former CEO, The 

Weather Channel Companies 

• Raymond Ban, Executive Vice 

President, The Weather Channel 

• Holly Cannon, Principal, Beveridge 

and Diamond, P.C. 

• Megan Reilly Cayton, Co-Founder 

and CEO, Catrinka, LLC 

• Phillipe Cousteau, Co-Founder and 

CEO, EarthEcho International 

• Manuel Alberto Diaz, Partner, 

Lydecker Diaz, L.L.P. 

• Trish Silber, President, Aliniad 

Consulting Partners, Inc. 

• Bradley Smith, Dean, Huxley 

College of the Environment, Western 

Washington University 

• Wonya Lucas, Former CEO, TV One 

Background: Section 10(a) of the 

National Environmental Education Act 

of 1990 mandates a National 

Environmental Education Foundation. 

The Foundation is established in order 

to extend the contribution of 

environmental education and training to 

meeting critical environmental 

protection needs, both in this country 

and internationally; to facilitate the 

cooperation, coordination, and 

contribution of public and private 

resources to create an environmentally 

advanced educational system; and to 

foster an open and effective partnership 

among Federal, State, and local 

government, business, industry, 

academic institutions, community based 

environmental groups, and international 

organizations. 

The Foundation is a charitable and 

nonprofit corporation whose income is 

exempt from tax, and donations to 

which are tax deductible to the same 

extent as those organizations listed 

pursuant to section 501(c) of the 

Internal Revenue Code of 1986. The 

Foundation is not an agency or 

establishment of the United States. The 

purposes of the Foundation are— 

(A) Subject to the limitation contained 

in the final sentence of subsection (d) 

herein, to encourage, accept, leverage, 

and administer private gifts for the 

benefit of, or in connection with, the 

environmental education and training 

activities and services of the United 

States Environmental Protection 

Agency; 

(B) to conduct such other 

environmental education activities as 

will further the development of an 

environmentally conscious and 

responsible public, a well-trained and 

environmentally literate workforce, and 

an environmentally advanced 

educational system; 

(C) to participate with foreign entities 

and individuals in the conduct and 

coordination of activities that will 

further opportunities for environmental 

education and training to address 

environmental issues and problems 

involving the United States and Canada 

or Mexico. 

The Foundation develops, supports, 

and/or operates programs and projects 

to educate and train educational and 

environmental professionals, and to 

assist them in the development and 


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