Nomination of Kathleen M. Bennett To Be an Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

The President today announced his intention to nominate Kathleen M. Bennett to be Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for Air, Noise and Radiation, vice David G. Hawkins, resigned. Since 1977 Mrs. Bennett has served as Federal affairs representative, Crown Zellerbach Corp. She was a member of the American Paper Institute Air Quality Committee, and chairman, Air Quality Subcommittee on Prevention of Significant Deterioration. Since 1978 she served as faculty member of Executive Enterprises, Inc., environmental law series, lecturing on the Clean Air Act and on congressional environmental policy-making. In 1974-77 Mrs. Bennett was director of legislative affairs, American Paper Institute. She was Washington representative, Public Affairs Analysts, Inc., in 1972-74, and Administrative Assistant, Office of Congressional Affairs, General Services Administration, in 1971-72. Previously she was executive secretary, Office of the Governor, Chicago, Ill., in 1970-71, and executive secretary to the director, Citizens to Elect Senator Ralph Tyler Smith in 1970.

Mrs. Bennett graduated from Manhattanville College, Purchase, N.Y. (B.A., 1970). She is married, has three children, and resides in Alexandria, Va. She was born May 11, 1948, in New York, N.Y.