Port Environmental Director Named
The Port of Los Angeles has a new director of its environmental management division--Donald Rice, who has been the port’s second-ranking environmental official for the past 10 years.
Rice replaces Lillian Kawasaki, whom Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley appointed recently as manager of the city’s newly created Environmental Affairs department.
Rice, 45, of Huntington Beach, joined the port in 1974 as a marine environmental assistant and became its assistant environmental management director in 1980.
During that time, he participated in dozens of scuba-dives aimed at gathering biological samples, planting kelp beds along the breakwater, and searching for historically significant shipwrecks.
Rice’s new salary will be $62,619 a year, an official with the personnel division said.
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