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KIT SMITH NAMED TO THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Release Date: 04/17/2000
Contact Information: Dawn Harris, EPA Media Relations, 404-562-8421

Ms. Kit Smith, Chair of the Richland County Council in Richland County, South Carolina, has been named to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Local Government Advisory Committee. The Committee provides EPA Administrator Carol Browner with advice and recommendations to help build partnerships with local governments to better protect the nation's environment. With more than two decades in public service, Ms. Smith’s expertise ranges from health and education to sustainable growth policy. Holding professional as well as elected positions, Smith also has gained a wealth of experience in state and local government budgeting and policy and grassroots organizing. A substantial part of EPA's mission involves developing and enforcing Federal regulations to protect and improve the environment. Local governments are essential partners in this mission. Serving as both regulators and regulated entities, they implement major environmental regulations and provide community services such as drinking water treatment, waste water treatment and solid waste management. Local governments also play a key role in addressing environmental issues such as clean air, clean water, and sustainable development. The Local Government Advisory Committee was formed in 1993. The group has provided recommendations to the Agency on a broad range of topics including communications, flexibility, strategic planning, regulatory innovation and reform, environmental protection tools, pollution prevention, new technologies, and roles of various levels of government. Ms. Smith will be one of 31 representatives from different regions of the country who will meet on a regular basis with EPA.