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US ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY-WVSHINGTON, DC 20460 • JUNE 1973
Lab Shifts Will Involve 155 Employees
Shifts of research operations
among seven EPA laboratories and
three National Research Centers
have been announced by Assistant
Administrator Stanley M. Green-
field.
The moves, now in progress, will
be completed this summer and will
affect approximately 155 perma-
nent employees.
The transfers are being made,
Greenfield said, to consolidate and
strengthen the Agency's research
and development work in water
supply, marine water quality, pesti-
cides, and radiation. Operations
that have been carried out in re-
mote and sometimes unsafe facili-
ties are being moved to the appro-
priate NERCs or, in one case, to
a satellite laboratory that will be
enlarged with a new building and
facilities costing $2.8 million.
A summary of the program shifts,
EPA's Research Reorganized
Into 4 Operating Components
A reorganization of EPA's re-
search office and some shifting of
headquarters personnel and titles
were announced recently by Acting
Administrator Robert Fri.
Renamed the Office of Research
and Development, the new organi-
zation remains under the direction
of Assistant Administrator Stanley
M. Greenfield.
The basic organization of the four
National Environmental Research
Centers and their field laboratories
is not affected.
"In changing the old Office of
Research and Monitoring," Green-
field said, "we have tried to fit our
headquarters components more
closely to our actual research and
development functions and hence
to become more responsive to EPA's
overall needs."
Four main operating units were
created:
• The Office of Program In-
tegration, under Dr. Leland D.
Attaway, charged with "assur-
ing that research and engineer-
ing strategies match and are re-
sponsive to the Agency's goals."
• The Office of Environmental
Engineering, headed by Albert
C. Trakowski, to manage the
Agency's research, development,
and demonstration programs in
pollution control.
• The Office of Environmental
Sciences, under Dr. Herbert L.
Wiser, which will develop cri-
teria for environmental quality
standards and identify new prob-
lems.
• The Office of Monitoring
Systems, headed by Willis B.
Foster, to work on equipment,
techniques, and systems for
measuring and handling environ-
mental data.
Two smaller components report-
ing directly to Greenfield are the
Office of Program Management
headed by Dr. David G. Stephan,
and the Washington Environmental
Research Center with Dr. Larry
Ruff as acting director. The latter
will continue the analytical and
exploratory work of the old Envi-
ronmental Studies and Implementa-
tion Research Divisions.
with the approximate number of
positions involved in each, follows;
Water supply research programs
are slated to go to NERC-Cincin-
nati from the Northeast Water Sup-
ply Research Laboratory, Narragan-
sett, R.I., 20 positions; from the
Gulf Coast Water Supply Labora-
tory, Dauphin Island, Ala., 16 posi-
tions; and from the Northwestern
Water Supply Laboratory, Gig Har-
bor, Wash., 12 positions.
Part of the marine water quality
work now performed in leased fa-
cilities at West Kingston, R.I., will
be moved to nearby Narragansett
this summer, and EPA plans to ex-
pand the Narragansett facilities
with a new $2.8-million building
to accommodate the entire program
now at West Kingston. The Narra-
gansett laboratory will be renamed
the National Marine Water Quality
Laboratory and will remain a
NERC-Corvallis affiliate.
Pesticide research programs will
go to NERC-Research Triangle
Park, N.C., from the Primate and
Pesticides Effects Laboratory, Per-
rine, Fla., 55 positions, and from
the Chamblee Toxicology Labora-
tory, Chamblee, Ga., 25 positions.
EPA is leaving Chamblee to make
more room for DHEW operations
there.
Radiation research at the Eastern
Environmental Radiation Labora-
tory, Montgomery, Ala., will be
moved to NERC-RTP and NERC-
Las Vegas. Health effects research,
17 positions, will move to North
Carolina, and monitoring-quality
assurance work, 10 positions, will
move to Las Vegas.
The Office of Radiation Programs
will take over the remaining field
activities (as opposed to research
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Washington Commuters Hire Own Bus
A group of EPA headquarters
employees have found an unusual
way to get back and forth to work
each day. They charter a bus.
It started when the Radiation
Programs Office was moved en
masse late in April from suburban
Rockville, Md., to downtown Wash-
ington, 16 miles away. Many em-
ployees who live in the Rockville
area suddenly had tough commuting
problems: parking space at Water-
side Mall is costly and scarce, the
rush-hour traffic formidable, and
public bus service was slow and
crowded and required a transfer.
But Jean Maguire, a secretary in
the office of William D. Rowe,
deputy assistant administrator for
radiation programs, had a brilliant
idea and the gumption to carry it
out.
She canvassed her colleagues
before the move to find people who
did not want to battle the Washing-
ton traffic twice each day. She
found enough to justify chartering a
special bus.
The service has been operating
since the second day the RPO peo-
ple were in their new quarters in the
East Tower of EPA's Waterside
Mall headquarters. The riders now
include a number of Water Pro-
SAILING TO WORK
Water-borne commuting be-
tween Alexandria and EPA
headquarters was launched three
weeks ago by Robert Greenspan,
analyst in Air and Water Pro-
grams.
Two to four persons have
been taking the 10-minute trip
on the Potomac each day, he
said, and there is room for more.
The dock is three blocks away.
The cost: $1.50 per day.
The boat is owned by Green-
spun and three AWP colleagues,
Harry Pitts, Denis Daniel, and
Charles Marks, who still work at
Crystal Mall on the Virginia side
and can't yet sail to work.
—photo by Ernest Bucci
Shirley Landsman, James Hardin, and Joseph Logsdon board the bus—
while Wayne Hansen checks off their names—for daily charter trip.
grams Office personnel who were
transferred in May from the Crystal
Mall Building in Arlington.
The group now has about 50
subscribers, and the bus is filled.
Actually, it is slightly "oversold."
On any given day some regular
riders will be absent on leave, or
sick, or traveling. So there have not
been many standees during the
seven weeks the bus has been op-
erating.
The bus makes two pickup stops
each morning: at 6:50 in Gaithers-
burg, five miles north of Rockville,
and at 7:10 at a shopping center in
Rockville, near the former Radia-
tion Office location. Volunteer
checkers try to make sure that
everyone is accounted for. Then
the bus makes a non-stop, express
trip to Southwest Washington, ar-
riving about 7:50. The return trip
starts at 4:30 or soon thereafter.
The service is informal and
depends on volunteer leaders to
collect money, keep records, and
count noses. Besides Ms. Maguire,
these leaders have included Harold
Peterson, David Lutz, Paul Magno,
Carl Miller, Richard Chiacchierini,
and James Gruhlke.
The cost is calculated to cover the
bus firm's charge of $80 per day for
the two trips, divided evenly among
the subscribers. The current assess-
ment is $35 per month, and one-
time, one-way riders are charged
$1.50 per trip if space is available.
The monthly charge is about
equivalent to public bus fares, but
it provides faster, more convenient
service. The group has built up a
small cash reserve, Peterson said, to
assure that bills are paid promptly
and to meet contingencies.
There are indications that other
bus charter groups may be orga-
nized soon to serve EPA employees
in other suburban areas. A list of
seven charter bus firms, their costs
and franchise limitations has been
distributed to all Agency employees
in the Washington area.
Donald J. O'Bryan Jr. of the
Office of Research and Develop-
ment, says he has 20 to 25 persons
interested in a charter bus that
would start in Olney, Md., and make
a couple of stops nearer the city.
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LAKE SURVEY
FLIERS HELP
IN FLOOD WORK
An EPA helicopter team on
the National Eutrophication
Survey recently worked over a
weekend to help with flood con-
trol and relief operations along
the Mississippi River in southern
Illinois.
Pilots Tommy Bohannan and
William Hinkle and Crew Chief
Frederick Pike flew 14 missions
on Saturday and Sunday, April
28-9, to deliver food and water
to communities isolated by the
flood, to survey levees and dikes,
and to make photographs and
contour maps of the disaster
areas.
The fliers and other member's
of EPA's lake survey operation
were working out of Dayton,
Ohio, when the flood came. The
adjutant general of the Illinois
National Guard, whose members
have been assisting in the survey,
accepted EPA's offer of a heli-
copter and crew to help in the
flood emergency.
The crew flew the pontoon-
equipped aircraft about 300
miles to the National Guard com-
mand post at Grafton, 111., 30
miles upstream from St. Louis,
and put their services at the dis-
posal of flood control officials.
EPA and Tunis Seek to Rescue
One of World's Dirtiest Lakes
A three-year cooperative pro-
gram aimed at saving one of the
world's most polluted lakes was
launched this month in Tunisia,
North Africa, by EPA and the Tu-
nisian government.
Herbert Quinn of EPA's Office
of International Activities and
Thomas E. Maloney of the Pacific
Northwest Environmental Research
Laboratory spent a week in Tunis,
the capital city, setting up techni-
cal procedures for the project with
Tunisian officials.
Maloney, who heads the lake eu-
trophication research work at
PNERL in Corvallis, Ore., will be
EPA project officer for the joint
study, which will be underwritten
by United States credits in Tunisian
dinars equivalent to $250,000.
Object of the work, which will be
performed by Tunisian scientists
with technical assistance from EPA,
is to alleviate the pollution prob-
lems of Lake Tunis, a shallow,
lagoon-like pond that has received
sewage and runoff waste water from
Tunis and other cities for many
centuries, probably back as far as
the ninth century, B.C., when Car-
thage was built near the present
site of Tunis.
The lake used to have an outlet
to the Gulf of Tunis, but now is a
land-locked pond 45 square kilome-
ters (11 square miles) in size but
only one or two meters deep. Dur-
ing the cooler months of the year
immense growths of algae flourish,
along with commercially valuable
fish and shellfish, but in summer
there are frequent and severe fish
kills. Sewage discharge is a signifi-
cant factor in this destructive cycle.
Dr. Abderrazak Azouz, director
of Tunisia's National Technical In-
stitute of Oceanography and Fish-
eries, is coordinating the project for
his government. Principal project
scientist will be Habib Ben Alaya.
Several engineering and biologi-
cal studies of Lake Tunis have been
made during the last decade, and
the Tunisian government is anxious
to eliminate noxious odors and to
increase and stabilize fish produc-
tion.
The new joint study will focus
on the eutrophication problems of
the lake, evaluating the potential
benefits of diverting the sewage in-
put, and estimating the rate and
extent of recovery of the lake after
such diversion.
EPA experts hope the study will
lead to development of a predica-
tive model that could be adapted
for use with other lakes that are in
advanced stages of eutrophication.
Laboratory Shifts Will Involve 155 Employees
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and development) at Montgomery,
which will become the focus of
ORP's field operations east of the
Mississippi.
The transfers will bring presently
scattered R&D programs to the
EPA research centers that are di-
rectly responsible for their manage-
ment, Greenfield said. The shifts
are also expected to reduce operat-
ing costs.
The cost factor is particularly
important, he said, in the case of
facilities housed in old buildings un-
suitable for hazardous laboratory
operations. Severe safety problems
exist at the Perrine laboratory, and,
to a lesser degree, at Chamblee and
Montgomery, and it would be pro-
hibitively expensive to repair and
upgrade them or construct new
facilities to meet the Agency's
safety standards and the require-
ments of the Occupational Safety
and Health Act.
The Dauphin Island facility will
be returned to DHEW for use in
the Food and Drug Administra-
tion's shellfish sanitation work.
The Gig Harbor laboratory will
be transferred to a new facility to
be constructed about IS miles away
at Manchester, Wash. This build-
ing, containing 20,000 square feet
of floor space and costing $1.8 mil-
lion, will combine a laboratory staff
for Region X and a marine re-
search program.
"We plan to implement the trans-
fers so as to cause minimum dis-
turbance to ongoing scientific
work," Greenfield said. "All em-
ployees involved will be given
every consideration and assistance
in making a smooth transition, in
accordance with Agency and Civil
Service regulations."
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4,000 Kids See Gulf Breeze Laboratory
More than 4,000 school children
trooped through the Gulf Breeze
Environmental Research Labora-
tory last month to learn firsthand
about the myriad forms of marine
life in the waters around the labora-
tory on Sabine Island, Florida, near
Pensacola.
In three tours a day over a two-
week period, busloads of fourth-
graders from the public schools of
Escambia County came to the labo-
ratory, heard brief lectures on the
marine environment (Do you know
the difference between a bay and
an estuary?), and were shown some
of the laboratory's current work on
the effects of pesticides.
The hit of the annual open house
—available only to kids and not to
the adult public—was an array of
outdoor aquariums set up on a dock
area, where a great variety of ma-
rine creatures were displayed at
fourth-grade eye level. These in-
cluded a "petting zoo"—special
tanks containing marine specimens
that the visitors were encouraged to
touch and handle.
If you haven't petted a baby
squid, you haven't lived.
"Fourth graders are at an ex-
Dr. Delbert Wayne tells a group of Florida fourth-graders which aquariums
are for looking and which are "petting tanks" for feeling and handling.
cellent age for developing an aware-
ness for the environment and its
resources," said Dr. Nelson R.
Cooley, fishery biologist at the lab.
"Concern for preserving the
earth's natural resources must begin
with the young," he said. "By con-
centrating on one grade we hope
that every child in Escambia County
schools will have visited our lab at
least once during the elementary
school years."
The aquarium tanks set up under
the direction of technician Dana
Tyler, were kept constantly sup-
plied with estuarine water from Pen-
Dana Tyler, left, shows the visitors one of the more crabby specimens.
This small squid may be slimy, but
he's also transparently fascinating.
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Darryl Malone holds two crabs that
will be declawed for handling.
Lester Wolf adjusts net-hauling
gear on the lab trawler Dolphin.
Sea squirt's squirting mechanism draws squeals of delight from four girls.
sacola Bay, and filled with speci-
mens netted from the lab's trawler
Dolphin under the direction of
Lester Wolf, facilities manager,
Darryl Malone, maintenance man,
and Gerrit Nudo, a West Florida
University student working at the
lab on a cooperative training pro-
gram.
Each morning during the two
weeks, the Dolphin sailed out to
resupply the exhibit tanks with
shrimp, crabs, scallops, squids, and
dozens of varieties of plain and
fancy fish. Some specimens were
barred from the "petting" tanks, in-
cluding the scorpion fish, which has
a venomous sting, and crabs with
working claws.
In addition to the fourth graders'
tours on week days, the lab stayed
open for several tours for troops of
Boy and Girl Scouts on Saturday
and Sunday, May 5 and 6.
Laboratory Director Thomas W.
Duke said that next year at least
one day of the exhibit period would
be open to the public.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
POST GOES TO
ANN L. DORE
Ann L. Dore, former director of
public relations for the Committee
for the Re-election of the President
and press secretary for the Inaug-
ural Committee, last month was
named EPA director of Public
Affairs, succeeding Thomas T. Hart
who resigned in January.
Ms. Dore had previously been a
public relations consultant to a
number of firms in New York City,
including Heublein Inc., Interna-
tional Salt Co., Greenleaves Farms,
Inc., Buitoni, Inc., Lederle Labora-
tories, and the International Cook-
ing School. In 1970, she was coor-
dinator for Dr. John McLaughlin's
campaign for the U.S. Senate from
Rhode Island.
Born in Newark, N.J., 31 years
ago, Ms. Dore was raised in Chat-
ham, N.J., and was graduated from
Marymount College, Tarrytown,
N.Y. She studied at the University
of London in 1961-62. She was
supervisor of commercial schedul-
ing for the ABC television network
for two years and director of
alumnae relations for Marymount
College for three years. In 1965,
she received the Outstanding Young
Woman of America Award.
Volleyball Players
Win Sports Award
Three members of the volleyball
team at the Northeast Water Sup-
ply Research Laboratory, Narra-
gansett, R.I., recently received
sports awards from the Presiden-
tial Commission on Physical Fit-
ness.
Certificates, signed by President
Nixon, went to Edward Katz, Stefan
Mulawka, and Joseph Adriano.
The lab's volleyball team has
been playing five times a week for
two years, Katz said, and his doc-
tor is pleased with the drop in his
cholesterol level.
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Advice to Utah: Stay Off 'Hot' Tailings
Land on which uranium mill
tailings have been dumped is not a
suitable place to build a race track.
That was EPA's advice June 7
to Utah officials considering what
to do about a proposed automobile
race track just southwest of the Salt
Lake City limits.
The land, formerly leased by the
Vitro Chemical Co., was used for
the disposal of sand-like, slightly
radioactive waste from the firm's
uranium mining operations, accord-
ing to Paul B. Smith, regional ra-
diation representative in EPA's
Denver office. The company has
long since ceased uranium process-
ing, and about 900,000 tons of tail-
ings have just been sitting there.
Early this year a private develop-
ment corporation started leveling the
piles with draglines, preparatory to
building an auto race track on the
site.
If the race track is built, employ-
ees and spectators "would receive
unnecessary radiation exposure,"
EPA said in a formal recommenda-
tion made at the request of Utah
Governor Calvin Rampton.
Such exposure would come from
radon gas emanating from the tail-
ings, an exposure similar to that
occurring in Grand Junction, Colo.,
and other places where the tailings,
at first thought to be harmless, were
used as construction fill material
and as an aggregate for concrete.
The EPA statement was pre-
pared by the Radiation Programs
Office in Washington and signed by
William D. Rowe, deputy assistant
administrator. It was based on the
Agency's studies at the Vitro site in
1967 and 1968 as well as experi-
ence with radioactive tailings in
other locations.
A special three-week survey at
the Vitro tailings pile was made in
May by a radiation team from
NERC-Las Vegas, but the results
were not available in time for
Smith's meeting June 7 with a com-
mittee appointed by Gov. Rampton
to consider the problem.
The monitoring team was headed
by David L. Duncan, project officer,
and included Gregory G. Eadie and
Dwayne L. Rozell, of Las Vegas,
and Jon Yeagley of the Denver
Regional Office. They were as-
sisted by Blaine Thomas and Jeff
Throckmorton of the Utah State
Division of Health.
The EPA statement advised a
"hands-off" policy on any use of
uranium tailings until legal means
have been set up to control such
uses. It noted that Utah has no
laws or regulations for tailings con-
trol and that the Vitro site develop-
ment was started "without the
knowledge of the State's radiologi-
cal health program."
"Radon emanation from the tail-
ings pile does not present a signifi-
cant hazard to the surrounding
community as long as there are no
structures within one-half mile of
the site," the statement said. But
at the site itself "radon concentra-
tions exceed the current limits for
population exposure . . ." and would
be a hazard to "any occupant of a
structure built over or adjacent to
the tailings."
The Agency recommended that
the tailings be graded and covered,
to prevent them from "migrating"
by wind or water erosion or by
truck hauling, and fenced to keep
people away. It also urged the
State to establish control regulations
and to consider possible remedial
actions for four business buildings
just west of the site.
The monitoring team that sur-
veyed the area last month took dosi-
meter readings in the four buildings
as well as air samples from three
stations on the pile itself and one
at a suburban sewage treatment
plant.
Smith said one possible use of the
site might be for a sewage treatment
plant, which needs a large area for
ponds and filters, operates virtually
unattended, and is not frequented
by the public.
Old Age Overtakes Big Sam,
Steer With Hole in Stomach
Big Sam, the steer with a hole
in his stomach, died last month
at the experimental ranch in
Nevada where he had quietly
helped EPA scientists throughout
his nine-year life.
Sam was one of a test herd of
steers and cows that were period-
ically allowed to graze on the
Atomic Energy Commission's
Nevada Test Site, an area sub-
ject to radioactive fallout from
nuclear experiments.
Sam and several other animals
in the herd had "fistulas," or sur-
gically created holes, permitting
EPA veterinarians to remove the
contents of their rumens to
check on what was happening to
the radioactive isotopes in their
feed while it was being digested.
Big Sam was the most famous
of the herd, for he had been sent
to expositions and state fairs in
Nevada, Texas, and New Mexico
and had appeared on many tele-
vision programs to illustrate en-
vironmental radiation monitor-
ing. Once the governor of Ne-
vada shook his hoof for the
press cameras.
On such occasions Sam wore a
small plexiglass window in his
fistula, through which the churn-
ing rumen contents could be
seen. But usually he wore a sim-
ple leather plug.
None of the animals that have
grazed on the atomic test site
has suffered any ill effects trace-
able to radiation fallout, but ob-
servation of the herd and moni-
toring of isotope levels in meat
and milk is continuing. The test
ranch is operated by EPA's Na-
tional Environmental Research
Center at Las Vegas.
An autopsy showed that Big
Sam died of natural causes. Nine
years is an unusually long life.
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48 ATTEND
GPO COURSE
ON PRINTING
Forty-eight EPA employees from
regional offices, research centers,
and laboratories throughout the
country attended a three-day semi-
nar on "Editorial Planning for
Printing Production" in Washing-
ton last month.
The lecture and workshop course
was arranged by Henry Washing-
ton of the Printing Management
and Distribution Section and Paul
Ceresini, General Services Branch.
It was presented by the Govern-
ment Printing Office experts under
the leadership of Robert McKendry,
to help upgrade the work of the
Agency's printing control officers,
editors, writers, and illustrators.
Topics covered included format
and type selection, copy prepara-
tion and proofreading, graphic de-
sign, printing methods, and printing
procurement through GPO regional
centers and commercial firms.
Give-and-take panel discussions
with GPO people tackled many of
the printing production problems of
individual Agency programs, and
Mr. McKendry said he hoped that
similar meetings could be held in
the future.
Attendees were given certificates
for completing the course, and the
sessions concluded with a tour of
the main GPO publication facility.
Nine Regional Offices, four re-
search centers, two detached labo-
ratories, and Agency headquarters
were represented at the sessions.
Inside EPA, published month-
ly for all employees of the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agen-
cy, welcomes contributed articles,
photos, and letters of general
interest.
Printed on paper made from
reclaimed waste paper.
Van V. Trumbull, editor
Office of Public Affairs
Room W239, EPA
Washington, D.C. 20460
Thomasina 15. Bayless of NERC-Cincinnati, right, receives certificate for
completing special course at Government Printing Office in Washington
last month. Others in picture, from left, are Robert McKendry of GPO,
course moderator; Henry F. Washington, chief, Printing Management
and Distribution Section; and Paul Ceresini, chief, General Services Branch.
Jerry Moore's Work Helps Win
State Award for Service Club
Jerry Moore, a fish and wildlife
reviewer in EPA's Office of Pesti-
cide Programs in Washington, is
credited with helping to win a
statewide award for the Chantilly,
Va., chapter of the Jaycees service
club.
The Outstanding Environmental
Award was presented recently to the
chapter for a series of voluntary
projects during the last year, all
sparked by Mr. Moore:
• He planned and super-
vised the landscaping of the
State Jaycees' Camp Virginia for
retarded children near Roanoke.
• He designed and guided the
development of two "nature
trails" in Fairfax County park-
land, for one of which he ob-
tained a grant from the national
Jaycees organization, with
matching funds from the Depart-
ment of Health, Education, and
Welfare.
• He obtained 400 plants and
shrubs that had been planted for
the Transpo '72 exhibition last
summer at Dulles Airport (de-
signed by Mr. Moore) and had
them transplanted after the exhi-
bition to the grounds of two
schools in Fairfax County and to
a local park, all at no cost to the
county.
• In cooperation with the Vir-
ginia Department of Highways,
a tree nursery, and the Chantilly
Jaycees, he designed and directed
the landscaping of an entrance
to a new housing development,
Greenbrier.
Moore is also an instructor in
wildlife management at Northern
Virginia Community College, and
is working with the college adminis-
tration to increase the number of
environmental courses available in
the State's community college sys-
tem.
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Scholarship Deadline Is July 15; DANIEL SNYDER
The deadline for applying for
EPA scholarships for the 1973-74
academic year is July 15, accord-
ing to Robert F. McDonald of the
Office for Planning and Manage-
ment, who manages the Scholarship
Fund.
The fund now has about $5,000
to distribute, McDonald said, mostly
from honoraria and fees offered to
Agency officials for speeches and
magazine articles. EPA officials
cannot accept such payments, but
can ask the speech-sponsoring or-
ganization or the magazine pub-
lisher to make a voluntary chari-
table contribution in lieu of the fee.
The Fund was established two years
ago to receive such contributions
and last year awarded $5,550 in
scholarships.
The scholarships are awarded to
children of career employees hav-
ing at least three years of service
(or children of deceased or disabled
employees). Recipients must be
full-time students at an accredited
college or junior college.
Sixteen persons held EPA Schol-
arships during the academic year
that ends this month, and only one
of these is graduating, McDonald
said. The scholarships are renew-
able, but by June 1 only one or two
renewal applications and 10 or 12
new applications had been received.
Applications forms may be ob-
tained from the Personnel Officer at
Report Due Soon
On Monitoring '72
Nuclear Testing
The NERC at Las Vegas is pub-
lishing this month a technical re-
port on environmental radiation
monitoring of all underground nu-
clear tests made by the United
States in 1972.
The report describes the methods
used and data obtained in "off-
site" areas not immediately adja-
cent to "ground zero" the well-head
above the detonation location.
any EPA location.
One of the biggest sources of
speech-fee contributions to the
Fund was cut off suddenly at the
end of April, when Administrator
William Ruckelshaus left EPA to
become acting director of the Fed-
eral Bureau of Investigation. Ruck-
elshaus had to cancel speaking en-
gagements that would have added
"about $3,500" to the Fund, Mc-
Donald said.
The Fund also welcomes dona-
tions from EPA employees and
others. But the income from such
tax-free gifts has dropped consid-
erably from what it was last year,
he said.
A five-man board of trustees will
meet shortly after July 15 to choose
the scholarship recipients.
Daniel J. Snyder III was ap-
pointed regional administrator of
Region III, Philadelphia, last
month.
Snyder had been acting in that
post since Edward W. Furia re-
signed in February.
Snyder joined EPA in January,
1972, as regional counsel and five
months later was named acting
deputy administrator for Region III.
A native of Greensburg, Pa., Sny-
der is 29 years old and a graduate
of Dickinson College and the Uni-
versity of Virginia Law School. He
has been teaching environmental
law at the Villanova University Law
School, Villanova, Pa.
He and his wife Lynda live in
Philadelphia.
Cywin Wins Patent on System
For Disposing of Waste Heat
A patent on the design of a
"closed loop" system to dispose of
waste heat from power plants by
using a municipal water supply as
a "heat sink" has been granted to
Allen Cywin, chief of EPA's Efflu-
ent Guidelines Division.
Cywin conceived the idea about
three years ago when he was direc-
tor of Applied Science and Technol-
ogy for the Federal Water Quality
Administration, an EPA predeces-
sor agency in the Department of the
Interior.
Cywin recently received notice
that his patent had been allowed
and numbered and would be issued
in two or three months.
As a Federal invention, the pa-
tent "belongs" to the Interior De-
partment but it is usable by any-
one without payment of royalty.
"All I get from it is some satisfac-
tion," Cywin said, "and an item for
my personnel record "
Cywin's scheme offers several ad-
vantages: prevention of thermal
pollution of rivers or lakes, avoid-
ance of costly cooling towers, and
beneficial slight warming of the
municipal water system.
Water that has been heated by
passing through the condensers of a
power station or industrial plant,
he explained, would go to the city
water system's intake for treatment
and distribution to domestic users.
Much of the added heat would be
absorbed by the ground in which the
water mains are laid. Most city sys-
tems have so great a volume of
water flow that there would be only
a few degrees rise in temperature
at the tap. This warming would be
desirable for the great majority of
water uses, Cywin said, and it would
speed bacterial action in the sewage
treatment plant at the end of the
line.
Cywin also claims his scheme
could be adapted to the reuse of
treated effluent water from sewage
plants for power plant cooling. In
such cases, if the effluent water
quality is unsuitable for direct use
in the municipal system, a heat ex-
changer or evaporator would be
used to transfer the heat energy
from effluent condenser water to
the municipal system sink.
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