COLUMBIA, SC – SC Environmental Awareness Award nominations to recognize South Carolinians who are doing extraordinary work for the natural environment will be accepted through December 15, 2007.
The SC General Assembly established the SC Environmental Awareness Award, now in its 16th year, during the 1992 legislative session to recognize outstanding contributions made toward the protection, conservation and improvement of the state’s natural resources.
Each year the public is invited to submit nominations that are then reviewed by an awards committee, which includes representatives from the state's environmental and natural resource agencies. In judging nominees, the committee considers excellence in innovation, leadership and accomplishments that influence positive changes affecting the natural environment.
Members of the awards committee represent the SC Department of Natural Resources, SC Department of Health and Environmental Control, SC Forestry Commission and the SC Sea Grant Consortium.
Guidelines and nomination forms for the SC Environmental Awareness Award are available at http://www.scdhec.net/environment/ocrm/, or contact Braxton Davis at
843-953-0246 or davisbc@dhec.sc.gov.