Felicia Marcus

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[EPA Office of Brownfields Cleanup and Redevelopment]

Felicia Marcus has served as regional administrator of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 9 since 1993. The office addresses environmental problems in California, Arizona, Nevada, Hawaii, the Republic of Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the territories of Guam and American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, as well as those on the lands of federally recognized Indian tribes. During her tenure at EPA, Ms. Marcus has focused on establishing greater accessibility and working relationships between EPA and the public it serves - sovereign Indian nations and former territories, environmental and community groups, state and local governments, and business and agricultural interests, most effectively protecting public health and the environment.

Before joining EPA, Ms. Marcus served as the president of the Board of Public Works of the city of Los Angeles, California. In that position, she led the 6,700 employees of the city's Department of Public Works who have responsibility for the city's wastewater, solid waste (including recycling), street maintenance, street lighting, street trees, and major construction contracting programs. The department also worked with public- and private-sector groups on such specialized programs as waste minimization, graffiti abatement, motion picture permitting, and water reclamation. Ms. Marcus presided over the department through a time of great change and challenge; during her tenure, the department won numerous national awards for its ambitious initiatives and achievements in wastewater treatment, recycling and source reduction, and pollution prevention.

Ms. Marcus also has extensive experience as a private-sector and public interest lawyer, as well as a community organizer. She is perhaps best known locally for her work to clean up Santa Monica Bay, most notably as a founder and general counsel to the organization Heal the Bay. She has served as the director of litigation for Public Counsel, a public interest law firm; an associate at the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson; a visiting fellow at the Center for Law in the Public Interest; a law clerk to the Honorable Harry Pregerson (9th Circuit Court of Appeals); and legislative assistant to former Representative Anthony C. Beilenson (D).

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