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A Bachelor of Science in anthropology with a minor in metropolitan studies from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls led JAMES PENDOWSKI to Kansas State University to pursue graduate studies in the Department of Regional and Community Planning.

His first professional post was in Fort Smith, Arkansas, with the Arkahoma Regional Planning Commission as a community planner. Within a year, he became involved with a water quality project.

Since then Jim Pendowski's career has been primarily focused on efforts to protect environmental quality. From Arkansas, he moved to the Illinois Department of Transportation where he developed environmental impact statements and assessments.

For the last three years, he has led the city-county solid waste management agency for Champaign, Illinois, directing a professional staff addressing questions of landfill siting, material recovery and recycling. He will soon assume a new post as head of the State of Washington solid waste management program.