Appointment of Charles Roper Jeter as the United States Commissioner of the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission

The President today announced his intention to appoint Charles Roper Jeter to be Commissioner, representing the United States Government on the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission. He will succeed Rebecca W. Hammer.

Mr. Jeter was chief, wastewater and stream quality control, South Carolina Department of Environmental Control, in 1976-81. He was director, industrial and agricultural wastewater division, in 1972-76, and was a chemist for the South Carolina Department of Environmental Control in 1967-72.

He graduated from Clemson University (B.S., 1963; M.S., 1971). He is married, has three children, and resides in Atlanta, Ga. Mr. Jeter was born March 1, 1942, in York, S.C.