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Charles R. Jeter
Biography
[EPA press release - July 2, 1981]
Anne M. Gorsuch, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, today announced the appointment of Charles R. Jeter, a South Carolina State environmental official, to the position of Regional Administrator for EPA's eight-state Region 4, headquartered in Atlanta.
Jeter joins EPA after 14 years of service with the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, where he has been director of the state's water pollution control program.
The appointment is effective July 20.
Region 4 encompasses the states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
Jeter, 39, has managed a staff of 170 persons and budget of over $3 million for the past five years as director of South Carolina's water pollution control program. Last year, he also served as national president of the Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators.
Jeter was recommended for the appointment by seven Republican U.S. Senators from the region--Senators Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, Mack Mattingly of Georgia, Jeremiah Denton of Alabama, Jesse Helms and John East of North Carolina, Thad Cochran of Mississippi and Paula Hawkins of Florida. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker concurred.
"Charles Jeter is a solid professional whose expertise and dealings at various levels of government will contribute greatly to our efforts to create a full federal-state partnership in attacking pollution problems," Mrs. Gorsuch said.
"His experience runs a gamut of environmental concerns, and his knowledge of regional environmental issues gives him an exceptional background for his new position," she added.
Rebecca W. Hanmer, Region 4's Regional Administrator since 1980, will return to Washington, D.C., to serve on an EPA Task Force on Regional Reorganization.
As head of the water pollution control effort in South Carolina, Jeter was involved in the engineering design of treatment systems, managing the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit program--whose responsibility was delegated to the state--compliance and enforcement activities, municipal grants administration, water quality management planning, environmental impact studies, and many other aspects of pollution control.
Jeter joined the state environmental agency as a chemist in 1967. In 1972, he was named Director of the Industrial and Agricultural Wastewater Division, and in 1976, assumed his present position heading up the water pollution control program.
He graduated from Clemson University in 1963 with a bachelor of science degree in chemistry and biological sciences, and earned his Master's degree in 1971 in environmental engineering. From 1965 to 1967, he served as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Medical Service Corps.
Born in York, South Carolina, Jeter and his wife and children reside in Columbia, South Carolina.