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September 10, 2009Swackhamer Reappointed to Clean Water Council
Deborah Swackhamer, co-director of the University's Water Resources Center, professor in the School of Public Health and Charles M. Denny Jr. Chair in Science, Technology and Public Policy at the Humphrey Institute, has been reappointed by Governor Pawlenty to the Clean Water Council.
Swackhamer is one of nine recent reappointments to the 23 member council created by the legislature to provide advice on how to administer and implement the Clean Water Legacy Act, including making recommendations to the Governor on the appropriation of funds in the Clean Water Legacy Account. She chairs the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board, the International Joint Commission of the U.S. and Canada Science Advisory Board, was a member of the advisory group that provided stakeholder feedback on the Clean Water Legacy Act, and co-chaired the science advisory panel for the Lake Pepin Total Maximum Daily Load Study. Swackhamer, who has been a member of the Clean Water Council since its inception in 2006, is reappointed a representative of a state higher education system to a four-year term that expires January 7, 2013.
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