PR 31 05
BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
MONDAY, March 21, 2005
Wilsonville resident recognized for
environmental contributions
PORTLAND, Ore. -
The Bonneville Power Administration, an agency under the U.S. Department of Energy, presented one of its highest honors, the BPA Award for Achievement in Environmental Protection, to Steve Sander at a ceremony held March 18 at its Portland headquarters.
Just over a year ago, a four-member team (of which Sander, a physical scientist, was a member) got the green light for BPA to join the Environmental Protection Agency's Federal Electronics Challenge (FEC) pilot program. The FEC works with entities such as BPA to educate the public about the growing problem of "E-waste," reducing it, using greener products and recycling to capture hazardous elements from computers, phones, batteries and other electrical and electronic items. And, what a job the BPA team did in one year. From education programs, to changing BPA recycling and disposal procedures, to earning national attention and a national Gold partner award last fall * the BPA team showed true grit in tackling this emerging problem and making BPA a leader in the effort to curb E-waste.
BPA Administrator Steve Wright said that the award recognizes Steve Sander and the entire team ". . . for their superior service and exceptional contribution to the environment, BPA's mission and the region we serve."
The award, part of the agency's 2005 Administrator's Excellence Awards program, recognizes outstanding achievements by employees whose innovation, initiative, superior service or courageous acts have made exceptional contributions to BPA's mission, to the electric utility industry or to the local community.
The agency, a wholesale power-marketing agency that sells electric power from 31 federal dams and one nuclear plant, employs about 3,000 people throughout its 300,000-square-mile service territory. In addition to owning and operating 75 percent of the region's high voltage transmission system, BPA provides nearly half the electric power consumed in the Northwest.
Sander, who currently resides in the Charbonneau area near Wilsonville, Ore., graduated from Hillsboro Union High School in 1966 and Portland State University in 1970 with a Bachelor of Science degree in earth sciences. For the past 20 years, he has been working as a BPA senior environmental scientist dealing in Superfund/environmental liability issues. He is married and has three children and two grandchildren.
For more information about BPA and the Administrator's Excellence Awards, go to the BPA Web site at www.bpa.gov. For a photo, please go to
http://www.bpa.gov/corporate/AwardWinners/2005/.
Submitted for distribution on 03-21-2005 at 3:03 PM
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