Mayport Is 2005 CNO Award Winner

The awards will be presented May 3 at the U.S. Navy Mem-orial and Naval Heritage Center in Washington.

The annual CNO Environ-mental Awards program recognizes Navy people, ships and installations for their exceptional environmental stewardship. The 2005 competition categories included natural resources conservation, cultural resources management, environmental quality, pollution prevention, environmental restoration and environmental excellence in weapon system acquisition.

The winners are:

Environmental Restoration Individual or Team Award:

- Naval Station Mayport Environmental Tier I Partnering Team (Diane Racine, Adrienne Wilson, James Cason, Terry Hansen, Michael Halil, Craig A. Benedikt, Beverly Washington, Michael Albert, Mark Peterson)

- Naval Air Station Pensacola Environmental Restoration Team (Betsy Voss, Allison Harris, Bill Hill, Tracie Vaught, Greg Wilfley, Joe Foran, Greg Campbell, Greg Fraley, Brian Caldwell, Gerry Walker)

- Naval Base Ventura County Environmental Restoration Team (Steve Granade, Michael Gonzales, Reza Ghanei, Eric Green, Monica Ryan)

Natural Resources Conserva-tion Small Installation Award:

- Naval Air Station Whiting Field

- Navy Information Opera-tions Command Sugar Grove

- U.S. Navy Support Facility Diego Garcia

Natural Resources Conserva-tion Individual or Team award:

- Naval Air Station Jackson-ville Natural Resources Team (Christine M. Bauer, Angela Glass, Will Henry)

- Richard R. Riddle/Com-mander Navy Region South

- Jim Swift/Naval Air Station Patuxent River

Cultural Resources Manage-ment Installation Award:

- Naval Air Station Patuxent River

- Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake

- U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo, Japan

Environmental Quality Non-industrial Installation Award:

- Commander Navy Region Hawaii

- Naval Station Great Lakes

- Naval Station Norfolk

Environmental Quality Indi-vidual or Team Award:

- Naval Air Depot Cherry Point Environmental Manage-ment System Team (Edward Childs, Wesley Lamb, James Byrd, Billy Weeks, Andrew Krelie, Michelle Burroughs, Debbie King, Steve Adinolfi)

- Lamberto R. Torres/South-west Regional Maintenance Center (SWRMC)

- United States Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Environmental Quality Team (Frederick W. Burns, Paul H. Schoenfeld, Christopher K. Creighton, Kenneth E. Hendl, John H. Brummett, Jr., Robert W. Bunch)

Environmental Quality Large Ship Award:

- USS George Washington (CVN 73)

- USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75)

- USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74)

Pollution Prevention Indus-trial Installation Award:

- Commander Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan

- Naval Air Depot North Island

- Norfolk Naval Shipyard

Environmental Restoration Installation Award:

- Naval Air Station Lemoore

- Naval Air Station Whiting Field

- Norfolk Naval Shipyard

Environmental Excellence in Weapon System Acquisition Award:

- F/A-18E/F & EA-18G Acquisition Programs Team (Mike Rudy, Erin Beck, John Bogner, M. Duarte, Lori Hales, S. Sofian, R. Viktora, Tom Zucal)

- MH-60R Multi-Mission Helicopter Program Environmental, Safety, and Occupational Health (ESOH) Team (Mary Hammerer, Jennifer Paulk)

- P-8A Multi-mission Maritime Aircraft (MMA) Environment, Safety, and Occupational Health (ESOH) Team (Michele Pok, Greg Berry, Thomas Doughty, Flint Webb, Michael Krier, Joseph Krezelak, Tanya Tonnu)

Rear Adm. James A. Symonds, director of the CNO Environmental Readiness Division which administers the environmental awards program, congratulated the winners in a naval message saying, ''I am proud that you are working hard to achieve superior environmental stewardship while executing our primary mission of national defense. Your work has added to Navy's ever-growing record of accomplishments, proving yet again that Navy's environmental programs are among the finest in the world.''

The winners advanced to the Secretary of the Navy Environ-mental Awards competition.

For more information about the CNO Environmental Awards program, contact Ms. Easter R. Thompson at Easter.R.-Thompson@navy.mil.