|
|
Print View
(Left to Right) James Steele, Tribal
Chairman of The Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes James
Gulliford, Assistant Administrator, EPA Office of
Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances, Salish
Kootenai College Dr. Joseph McDonald and Executive Director,
Dr. Gerald Gipp of the American Indian Higher Education
Consortium. |
| U.S. EPA
MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING SIGNING 
(Washington, DC) –U.S. EPA’s Assistant Administrators, Luis
Luna, from the Office of Administration, Resources Management
and Jim Guillford, from the Office of Prevention, Pesticides,
and Toxic Substances announced on February 7, 2007 the official
signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the Salish
Kootenai College and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
and the Office of Administration, Resources Management and the
Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances. The
signing ceremony was held at the Russell Senate Building and is
hosted by the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.
The Memorandum of Understanding provides an opportunity for
EPA and the Salish Kootenai College and the Confederated Salish
Kootenai Tribes to increase our ability to address our mutual
environmental challenges in the future by increasing the numbers
of qualified and diverse candidates for environmental careers
and to expand opportunities for faculty enrichment and
undergraduate and graduate student training with emphasis upon
sciences, technology and related environmental sciences. The MOU
also supports the President's Management agenda for Strategic
Management on Human Capitol and the Presidential Executive Order
13270 on Tribal Colleges and Universities. The MOU also promotes
Tribal environmental capacity, and effective communications to
address mutual environmental issues and concerns.
"This culminates the efforts of numerous people over the last
two years” said Rich Janssen, CSKT Division Manager of
Environmental Protection. “We fully expect in the future to be
able to provide a place of employment and experience for SKC
students who are future federal EPA employees."
|
