Rebecca W. Hanmer

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[EPA press release - December 5, 1979]

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Douglas M. Costle has made two new appointments to top Agency posts.

Costle named Rebecca W. Hanmer, 38, as the Agency's new Regional Administrator in Atlanta for the southeastern U.S. He also selected Dr. Lewis Hughes, 51, to be the Director of International Activities in Washington, D.C.

Of Hanmer, Costle said, "Ms. Hanmer will bring a wealth of environmental and managerial experience to her new job. She has learned first-hand the problems and needs of local officials through her work in the past two years as Deputy Regional Administrator of our Boston regional office. Ms. Hanmer is admirably qualified to continue environmental improvement in the Southeast."

As EPA's Regional Administrator in Atlanta, Hanmer will be responsible for enforcing Federal anti-pollution laws and programs in Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida. She must also work with State and local officials to assist their environmental efforts and help achieve mutual goals. Hanmer succeeds John C. White.

Since October 1977, Hanmer has been the Deputy Regional Administrator of EPA's New England regional office in Boston. Prior to this, she was the Director of EPA's Office of Federal Activities in Washington, D.C., where she was responsible for the Agency's review of environmental impact statements and the control of pollution at Federal facilities, such as military bases. Hanmer has been with EPA since its creation in 1970. Earlier, she worked at the former Federal Water Quality Administration, U.S. Department of the Interior.

Hanmer has a B.A. in political science from the College of William and Mary in Virginia in 1963, and an M.A. from American University in Washington, D.C. in 1966. She was born in Farmville, Virginia, in 1941.

Rebecca W. Hanmer

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