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U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY-WASHINGTON, D.C. 20460 • SEPTEMBER 1973
Data Bank Speeds Work on Grants
EPA's largest single task—the
administration of Federal grants for
municipal waste water treatment
works—has been speeded up and
made more efficient by a new com-
puterized data bank launched last
month.
Thirteen representatives from the
Agency's 10 regional offices came to
Washington the first week in August
for a five-day training session in
using the new computer system.
The data bank's value lies in
the efficiency, accuracy, and speed
it can bring to the management of
wastewater treatment projects and
the Federal grants that support
them, according to John T. Rhett,
deputy assistant administrator for
Water Programs Operations.
Having information complete, up-
to-date, and instantly available can
improve EPA's water pollution work
and save money for the municipali-
ties concerned, he said. At any
given moment there are thousands
of projects under way, valued at
more than $5 billion. The data
bank can reduce administrative de-
lays and hence, interest costs.
Computer in Bethesda
The heart of the data bank is a
giant computer storage and process-
ing unit in Bethesda, Md., at the
National Institutes of Health.
The computer is connected by
telephone to input-output terminals
in the Agency headquarters in
Washington—the Municipal Waste-
water Systems Division and the
Grants Administration Division—
and in EPA Regional Offices
throughout the country.
Each stage of progress of a con-
struction project and each step in
funding is entered in the data bank
when it occurs by the EPA office
—photos by Don Moran
Paul Wagner, center, watches Althea Patrick and Linunie E. Varner, both
of Region V, Chicago, practice entering items in data bank terminal.
immediately concerned.
All "significant action" items are
entered, from the application by a
State or local agency to final ap-
proval when a finished plant is cer-
tified as meeting its design objec-
tives. For any given project the
significant actions are complex and
various and extend over several
years. They include identifying
and descriptive data on the project;
the stages of environmental assess-
ment, conformance with river basin
plans, approval of technical speci-
fications; the dates and amounts of
awards and outlays of money; and
construction, inspections, and ap-
provals.
The stored information is ac-
cessible almost instantaneously to
any EPA office with a computer
terminal. A typewritten request to
the data bank evokes a printed
answer. Queries may range from
the status of single projects to
elaborate summaries by project
types, geographical location, fund-
ing status, and many other cate-
gories. The big computer can pro-
vide the data in analytical forms
that would be impossible with a
manually operated record system.
Learning to 'Talk'
At the training course, EPA
personnel learned how to "talk"
with the computer. They learned
the common data definitions and
coding procedures. They practiced
entering new information, double-
checking entries for accuracy, and
ordering readouts.
The computer's ample magnetic
memory now embraces manage-
ment information about waste wa-
ter treatment projects and grants
for the fiscal years 1973 and 1974
to date authorized by the Federal
Water Control Act Amendments of
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Regional representatives discuss data bank operation with Charles Hyle,
back to camera. From left are Jean Cannaday, Dallas; Thomas Schreeve,
New York; Sharon Metz, Dallas; and Veronica Harrington, Boston.
Data Bank Speeds the Work
On Water Treatment Projects
(Continued from page 1)
1972.
Each week the headquarters di-
visions order a current status print-
out. It covers design, construction,
and award and outlay information
for each project for which a certi-
fied application has been made dur-
ing these two fiscal years.
As new projects are initiated by
States and applications made to Re-
gional Offices, information about
them is added to the data bank.
This fall the Regional Offices
will code and enter into the data
bank all their information about
projects approved in fiscal 1972
and earlier. In this way, the data
bank will soon reflect complete,
historical management data on the
Nation's waste water treatment
projects.
Others Use Computer
Although the computer "belongs"
to NIH, it is used by other Fed-
eral agencies on a time-sharing
basis. Other EPA components that
use the computer for storing and
handling data include the head-
quarters library, cataloguing and
accessioning books, and the Facili-
ties and Support Division, for
maintaining an inventory of office
and laboratory equipment.
Establishment of the data bank
was a joint effort by Harold Cahill's
Municipal Waste Water Systems Di-
vision and Alexander Greene's
Grants Administration Division.
Paul Wagner, GAD's information
chief, supervised the setting up,
which was accomplished in about
four months. He was assisted by
Donald Thie, Jane Keininger, Ross
Hardter, and Fran Clark. Kenneth
Johnson, deputy director of MWSD,
and Charles Hyle, management in-
formation officer, Air and Water
Programs, directed the development
and are now monitoring the data
bank's performance.
Regional representatives respon-
sible for maintaining the data bank
include: Veronica Harrington and
William Serovy, Region I; Thomas
Shreeve, Region II; Esther Cohen,
Region III; A. Virginia Jones, Re-
gion IV; Althea Patrick and Limmie
E. Varner, Region V; Jean Canna-
day and Sharon Metz, Region VI;
Norma Anderson, Region VII;
Thomas A. Entzminger, Region
VIII; Myrna Elkins, Region IX;
and Mary Ann Clark, Region X.
16 VOLUNTEERS
IN TRAINING FOR
EMERGENCIES
Sixteen employees at Research
Triangle Park have formed an
emergency operations team and are
training to equip themselves to
cope with fires, accidents, and
other emergencies.
The idea for the team grew from
conversations among Dr. John
Finklea, NERC-RTP director. Ev-
erett Quesnell, president of Local
3347, American Federation of Gov-
ernment Employees; Orin Stopin-
ski, special assistant to Dr. Finklea;
and Greg Bujewski, EPA safety of-
ficer.
The team members' course in
firefighting and rescue was a 42-
hour course meeting four evenings
a week. The instructors included
Sidney Levy, on the faculty of Dur-
ham Technical Institute and mem-
ber of the Durham Fire Depart-
ment, and James Ellis, fire marshal
for the Chemstrand Research Fa-
cility. Members of the Parkwood
Volunteer Fire Department gave
instruction hi operating fire trucks,
handling high-pressure hoses, and
adjusting fire hose nozzles.
Team members plan to continue
their training with courses in ad-
vanced firefighting, first-aid, and
rescue operations. Eventually, ac-
cording to Bujewski, the Agency
team may become part of a mutual
assistance program involving all the
communities, industries, and gov-
ernment agencies in the Research
Triangle Park area.
Inside EPA, published
ly for an 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. Trumb ull, editor
Office of Public Affairs
Room W218, EPA
Washington, D.C. 20460
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25 Win EPA College Scholarships
Twenty-five sons and daughters
of EPA employees throughout the
country have been awarded schol-
arships totaling $6,850 for college
study this year.
The stipends, ranging from $100
to $450 each, come from the
Agency's Scholarship Fund, made
up primarily of honoraria and fees
offered to EPA officials for
speeches and magazine articles.
Under Federal regulations, such
payments are forbidden to govern-
ment employees speaking or writ-
ing in their official capacities.
Ten of the awards were renewals
of scholarships held during the
1972-73 academic year, and 15
were new. The presentations were
made by the ranking EPA official
at each location.
The winners' names, schools, and
parents' names are listed as fol-
lows, according to Agency loca-
tions:
NERC—Cincinnati, Ohio—Mark
Fischer, freshman at the Univer-
sity of Cincinnati, son of Mrs.
Mary Louise Fischer, secretary in
the National Field Investigations
Center.
Thomas Gehring, freshman at the
University of Cincinnati, son of
Robert R. Gehring, public affairs
specialist.
Pamela Gustin, freshman at
Edgecliff College, Cincinnati,
daughter of Mrs. Nancy G. Juil-
lerat, clerk typist.
Jeffrey and Thomas Kamphake,
sophomore and junior at the Uni-
versity of Cincinnati, sons of Law-
rence J. Kamphake, research chem-
ist.
Martha Piepmeyer, junior at the
University of Cincinnati, daughter
of Mrs. Virginia R. Piepmeyer,
personnel clerk.
EPA headquarters units, Wash-
ington, D.C.—Debra B e a s 1 e y ,
Michigan State University, East
Lansing, Mich., and Walter Beas-
ley, York College, York, Pa. Their
mother, Mrs. Alma Beasley, is an
administrative assistant in the Of-
fice of Research and Development.
Wanda Clegg, freshman at Ken-
tucky State College, Frankfurt, Ky.,
daughter of Mrs. Clara Williams,
secretary in the Office of Research
and Development.
Elizabeth Culliton, Salisbury State
College, Salisbury, Md., daughter
of Mrs. Mary Anne Culliton, pub-
lic health analyst in the Office of
Hazardous Materials Control.
NERC—Research Triangle Park,
N.C.—Serrell Hevenor, junior at
Oral Roberts University, Tulsa,
Okla., daughter of Mrs. Hazel
Hevenor, secretary in the Division
of Meteorology.
Susan Margolin, junior at the
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, daughter of the late
Emanuel D. Margolin, supervising
chemical engineer in the Office of
Air Programs.
Alice Terry, freshman at the Uni-
versity of North Carolina at
Greensboro, daughter of Mrs. Ab-
bie Terry, accounting management
clerk.
Mary F. Wilson, sophomore at
the University of Cincinnati, daugh-
ter of Ward Fleshman Sr., chemist
at NERC—Research Triangle Park,
N.C.
Chamblee Toxicology Laboratory,
Chamblee, Ga. — George Evans,
senior at Georgia Institute of Tech-
nology, Atlanta, son of Mrs. Lily
Evans, illustrator.
(Continued on page 5)
—photo by Don Moran
Scholarship winners from Washington area pose with parents and EPA officials at presentation Aug. 6. From
left ate Mrs. Mary Anne Culliton, Elizabeth Culliton, Robert F. McDonald, Mrs. Clara Williams, her daughter
Wanda Clegg, Acting Administrator John Quarles Jr., Debra and Walter Beasley, and Mrs. Alma Beasley.
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Getting to the Bottom of the Problem
Environmental scientists are car-
rying their studies to new depths:
the floor of the ocean.
To find out what happens to
sewage sludge dumped into the
ocean and what damage the sludge
does to ocean life, three scientists
recently spent a week on the bot-
tom of the Atlantic.
They were William P. Muellen-
hoff, of EPA's Pacific Northwest
Environmental Research Labora-
tory, Corvallis, Ore.; Dr. J. Mor-
gan Wells of the National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA); and James Washburn of
Oregon State University.
They spent six days on the ocean
bottom near Grand Bahama Island,
conducting their experiments in wet
suits and scuba gear and living in
an 8-by- 16-foot steel cylinder at
a depth of 50 feet.
Big City Problem
Sewage sludge is recognized as a
potential threat to aquatic environ-
ments, especially in the cases of
large cities, like New York and
Philadelphia, where sludge from
sewage plants is barged to sea and
dumped, and Los Angeles, where
Cluttered but comfortable in their underwater habitat are William Muel-
lenhoof, seated; Dr. J. Morgan Wells, upper bunk; and James Washburn.
processed sludge is pumped off-
shore via pipeline.
These practices can result in ac-
cumulations of sludge up to several
feet deep on the ocean floor. Al-
though general locations of such
deposits are known, there is little
information on the movement, deg-
radation rates and long-term bio-
Plastic domes in foreground are used to measure oxygen demand of
sludge in sea water. In background is Hydro-Lab where scientists lived.
logical impact of sludge on the
marine environment.
As their underwater habitat, the
scientists used "Hydro-Lab," leased
by NOAA for marine research. It
provides living and working space
for three or four persons as long
as a week.
Muellenhoff, an ocean engineer
and research associate in EPA's
Coastal Pollution Research Pro-
gram, headed the study, conducted
jointly by EPA and NOAA.
The scientists brought with them
electronic equipment for monitor-
ing environmental conditions in the
habitat and in the surounding wa-
ter. Electricity and air for the fa-
cility were provided from the sur-
face, and Edward Siefert of Oregon
State University's Oceanography
Department managed an on-shore
laboratory set up to process sludge,
seawater and sediment samples.
A separate undersea instrument
chamber, moored to the ocean
floor, was also used in the study.
The chamber—an upright cylinder
four feet in diameter and 17 feet
high—contained an air environ-
ment large enough for one re-
searcher and data recording equip-
ment.
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The project's first experiment in-
volved examination of sludge
placed under 30-inch-diameter
plastic domes to measure the rate
of oxygen use by the degrading
material.
Two domes were used, one con-
taining anaerobic sludge (processed
without oxygen) and the other con-
taining aerobic sludge (processed
in the presence of oxygen). Oxygen
levels of the sea water within the
domes were continuously recorded.
Submerged pumps supplied the
domes with oxygen-laden sea water.
The transparent domes insured uni-
form exposure of sea water to
sludge beds of defined area and
thickness.
The second experiment involved
release of 55-gallon drums of di-
gested sludge, while instruments
measured water movement and
quality. The drums' contents, re-
leased upcurrent from the instru-
mented site, settled to form a thin
bed of sludge about 40 feet wide
and more than 200 feet long.
Sea water and sediment samples
were taken at numerous locations
several days before and for several
days afterward to measure the re-
lease rates of carbon and nutrients
from the sludge.
Although two surface storms oc-
curred while the team was work-
ing under water, the only effect
below was an increased sea cur-
rent.
Lights Go Out
Storm winds and 10-foot waves
developed during the mandatory
14-hour decompression period at
the end of their underwater stay
and caused a partial—but harrow-
ing power failure.
Muellenhoff said, "We knew the
problem was due either to a failure
in the surface generator or an in-
ternal electrical short in the habi-
tat. Since we were breathing pure
oxygen at the time, there was some
concern about the possibility of a
fire."
For two weeks after the under-
sea phase of the study, the re-
searchers conducted surface dives
to gather additional data. The un-
dersea instrument chamber was the
operational base during that phase
of the research.
"The results of the study," Muel-
lenhoff said, "will help in esti-
mating, in advance of disposal, the
oxygen demand and short-term ef-
fects of sludge dumping in ocean
waters. They should also be use-
ful in formulating further research
on this problem by EPA and
NOAA."
Sewage sludge makes a dark cloud when released by scuba-equipped sci-
entist near sea bottom, later settles in 40-by-200-foot bed of sediment.
25 Win EPA
Scholarships
(Continued from page 3)
Susan Parks, sophomore at De-
Kalb Community College, Clarks-
ton, Ga., and Gretchen Parks,
Georgia State University, Atlanta.
Their mother, Mrs. Christine E.
Parks, is a publications clerk.
Region VI Office, Dallas, Texas
—William Bixby, freshman at the
University of New Mexico, Albu-
querque, son of William E. Bixby,
pesticides engineer.
Karen Olson, freshman at North
Texas State University, Denton,
Texas, daughter of Mrs. Agnes Ol-
sen, grants assistant.
Region V Indiana District Office,
Evansville, Ind.—Ginaloretta Re-
galbuto, freshman at Loyola Uni-
versity, New Orleans, La., and
Philip Regalbuto, junior at the Uni-
versity of Wyoming, Laramie. Their
father is Constantine J. Regalbuto,
chemist.
NERC—Corvallis, Ore.—Lynne
MacDonald, freshman at Oregon
College of Education, Monmouth,
daughter of Mrs. Eleanor Mac-
Donald, administrative assistant in
the NERC director's office.
NERC—Las Vegas, Nev.—Bar-
bara Rizzardi, sophomore at Stan-
ford University, Palo Alto, Calif.,
daughter of Charles J. Rizzardi,
technical writer-editor.
Region VII Office, Kansas City,
Mo.—Mary Jo Poskin, sophomore
at the University of Missouri, Co-
lumbia, daughter of Joseph D. Pos-
kin, inspector in pesticides regula-
tion.
Region III Wheeling Field Office,
Wheeling, W.Va.—James Bradac,
junior at Ohio State University,
Columbus, son of Charles J. Bra-
dac, chemist.
Scholarship applicants must be
children of career employees hav-
ing at least three years of service.
They must be full-time students at
accredited colleges or junior col-
leges. The awards are determined
by a five-man board of trustees,
based on academic performance,
need, and available funds.
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Computer Speeds Publishing
Of Timely News on Pesticides
EPA is using a computer to
help ride herd on the use and
abuse of pesticides.
The Office of Pesticides Pro-
grams in Washington recently
streamlined its management infor-
mation network by instituting a
computerized newsletter for the
speedy transmission of data among
key people at OPP headquarters
and the pesticides generalists in
each Regional Office.
Called the Pesticides Newslet-
ter, the new periodical is "pub-
lished" via a network of computer
input-output terminals anywhere
from twice a week to once every
two weeks, depending on the de-
velopment of new policies, control
actions, and other significant hap-
penings in the pesticides field.
The computer is used not only
in disseminating the newsletter but
also in its writing and editing.
Most items for the newsletter are
collected or written by Kathy
Smith of the Systems and Informa-
tion Branch, Technical Services Di-
vision in Washington. Items are
stored in a computer at the Na-
tional Institutes of Health in Be-
thesda, Md., by typing them out
on a computer terminal in the
Pesticides Office.
Pesticides officers in the ten EPA
regions also contribute articles and
news items to the data bank via
their computer terminals.
When the newsletter is ready to
"go to press," Mrs. Smith, at her
terminal, orders the computer to
print out everything that has been
contributed to that moment. Editor
Smith then reviews the copy, makes
any changes and corrections need-
ed, and issues the print command.
The newsletter is then printed auto-
matically at each regional or head-
quarters terminal linked to the sys-
tem.
Since the Pesticides Newsletter
is a management tool, only a lim-
ited number of copies are distrib-
uted. They go down the chain of
command at headquarters only as
far as the four division directors,
who may disseminate the informa-
tion by whatever method they
choose, e.g., staff meeting an-
nouncements, buck slips, or office
machine copies. The same flexi-
bility applies to the Regional Of-
fices.
By August 31, six Pesticide
Newsletters had been published.
The newsletter is just one aspect
of a broader communication sys-
tem being developed in OPP's
Technical Services Division. It is
hoped that such communication
tools will help to sort out the
enormous body of information in
the field and make it more useful
to all agencies and people con-
cerned with pesticides use and reg-
ulation.
Have You Missed
This Newsletter?
Do you know that EPA has
the Personnel Newsletter, a
monthly publication of the Per-
sonnel Management Division?
The Personnel Newsletter fea-
tures short informational items
about Civil Service Commission
policies and programs, relevant
legislation, labor relations news
in EPA, and manpower planning
hints and guidelines.
If you arc a supervisor, man-
ager, or interested party and are
not now receiving the Personnel
Newsletter, please notify Laurie
May, Personnel Management Di-
vision, room 39IOC, Waterside
Mall, Washington, D.C. 20406,
and your name will be added to
the mailing list.
Job Training Program Expands;
2,200 to Be Enrolled This Year
Job training in pollution control
will be provided for 2,200 persons
during fiscal 1974, it was an-
nounced recently by John Ropes,
of EPA's Office of Education and
Manpower Planning.
Under an interagency agreement,
the Department of Labor will pay
the Agency $1.8 million to carry
out training programs in 39 states
to help alleviate the shortage of
skilled technicians in water and
waste water treatment, air pollu-
tion control, solid waste manage-
ment, and pesticides regulation.
The new agreement represents a
significant expansion of the Agen-
cy's training work, according to
Richard Guay of the manpower
development staff, Water Programs
Operations.
Under previous interagency agree-
ments, about 3,300 persons were
trained in the last three years, all
in the water treatment field. This
year's plans call for expanding the
training offered into air pollution,
the disposal of hazardous wastes,
and pesticides regulation.
About half the trainees will be
veterans, Guay said, with prefer-
ence being given to those who have
been disabled in military service.
At least 40 percent will be newly
hired persons and remainder hold-
ers of environmental jobs who are
believed capable of upgrading their
skills.
The instruction will be given by
qualified educational institutions,
both public and private, under con-
tract to the Agency, which certi-
fies the competence of the contrac-
tors and supervises the individual
projects. Guidelines for contrac-
tors have been drawn up by EPA's
Manpower Development Office.
The trainees will be recruited
through employers—mainly city
and State environmental agencies—
and through referrals by Federal
and State employment agencies.
Much of the training will be con-
ducted at the work sites, and
trainees will receive regular wages
and employment benefits.
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Scientist Finds Just What He Needs
Dr. William H. Snyder, an ex-
pert in meteorology, is also some-
thing of an expert in serendipity—
the happy art of finding things
when you aren't looking for them.
Snyder found a wind tunnel. It
just happened to be there when
he needed it.
The story began last winter when
Snyder, working at the Meteorol-
ogy Laboratory at NERC—Re-
search Triangle Park, N.C., was in-
vestigating the dispersion of air
pollutants from industrial and
power plant smokestacks.
He reasoned that a wind tunnel
would be very useful to simulate
urban air pollution conditions in
the laboratory. Smoke generators
could spew "pollution" from model
stacks, and the tunnel's controlla-
ble "wind" could carry it past
models of urban topography.
Snyder made a feasibility study
of the kinds of research problems
that a wind tunnel would help an-
swer: how stack design affects pol-
lution dispersion, what happens to
airborne pollutants around tall
buildings downwind from the stack,
and how best to avoid "down-
wash" concentrations of pollutants
in the vicinity of urban buildings.
Snyder's proposal was approved,
and he went on to design a tunnel
for this work, specifying its size
and power rating and the kinds of
instrumentation it should have.
A contract to build the Snyder-
designed tunnel was recently
awarded to Aerolab Supply Com-
pany, Hyattsville, Md., for $165,-
000. It will be 3.6 meters (12 ft.)
wide, 21.1 m (7 ft.) high, and 18 m
(60 ft.) long. But it will not be
completed until January.
While Snyder was deep in his
feasibility study he found a wind
tunnel in his own backyard.
It was a small (3 x 3 x 12 foot),
off-the-shelf tunnel that had been
purchased two years before but
never used.
"Apparently it was bought by
our manpower development peo-
ple, to help in training techni-
cians to use and calibrate instru-
ments," Snyder said. "Then there
were staff shifts or a change in
plans, and it was never erected."
"I found it, disassembled, in out-
door storage. The plywood was be-
ginning to blister, but it was still
usable. All I did was to find space
Meteorologist William H. Snyder uses this wind tunnel to study air pol-
lutant dispersion. An industrial fan blows air through 12-foot test sec-
tion where smoke generator and model buildings simulate urban air
pollution problems, while instruments and camera record the experiment.
for it, bolt it together, and scrounge
up some instruments."
Snyder has been happily using
the tunnel for several months in an
EPA warehouse off Highway 54
and Brunson Drive. He finds it
suitable for some of the "rather
minor" studies in his long-term
program while he waits for the big-
ger runnel to be built
What about next year, when the
big tunnel is working, what will
happen to the little one?
"I think well keep it," said Sny-
der. "There will be many studies
for which we won't need the larger
space. And there are some things
the little tunnel can do that the
big one cannot, for instance: we
can get higher wind velocities in
the little tunnel!"
Coate Is Appointed
To Region X Post
L. Edwin Coate, former director
of Environmental Management for
San Diego County, Calif., has been
appointed deputy administrator for
EPA's Region X Office in Seattle.
He succeeds Donald Moos, who
resigned recently to become a spe-
cial assistant in the Washington
governor's office.
Coate will assist Regional Ad-
ministrator James Agee in manag-
ing Federal pollution control pro-
grams in Washington, Oregon,
Idaho, and Alaska.
Announcing the appointment,
Agee pointed to Coate's experi-
ence in local and Federal environ-
mental work: in the drafting of
transportation control plans for the
San Diego Region and, before that,
as manager and chief engineer of
the Valley Center, Calif., Munici-
pal Water District, and as a staff
worker for President Nixon and the
Council on Environmental Quality.
Coate is 37 years old and holds
an engineering degree from Ore-
gon State University and a master's
in public administration from the
University of California at San
Diego.
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70 Honored in OGC, Permit Programs
Seventy persons in the Office of
General Counsel and Enforcement
and in the Office of Permit Pro-
grams were honored for their work
in the Agency at separate ceremo-
nies held in Washington headquar-
ters and at Crystal Mall, Arlington,
June 29.
John R. Quarles, general counsel
and then acting deputy administra-
tor, presented the awards and com-
mended the recipients for their out-
standing work.
Silver medals for superior serv-
ice, the second highest Agency
award, were presented to Richard
Denny and Murray Stein. These
awards had been announced more
than a year before, but the medals
were not available at that time.
Bronze medals for commendable
service, EPA's third highest award,
went to Augustine Conroy II, pesti-
cides enforcement; Helmut Rein-
hardt, technical analysis; Norman
Shutler, mobile source enforcement;
and Joseph Zorc, grants adminis-
tration.
Within-grade salary increases
were presented to Eurilia V. Bartel,
C. Richard Boehlert, Joan Daven-
port, David T. Deal, Carl E. Ed-
lund, Claudelia Harris, Joyce A.
Johnson, Shirley Leacraft, Andrew
J. McErlean, Paula M. Murray,
Georgia K. Prapas, J. Penin
Quarles, Edward E. Reich, Shirley
A. Ross, and J. Kemper Will.
Special achievement awards, of
a sum of money and a certificate,
were persented to Leslie Carothers
and William Heglund.
Length - of - government - service
awards were presented as follows:
Young Biologist Off to Zurich
For Year of Graduate Study
Shirley Gerken, 21, biologist at
the Region VII water quality labo-
ratory in Kansas City, recently won
a fellowship for a year of graduate
study at the Federal Technical In-
stitute at Zurich, Switzerland.
The fellowship, awarded by the
Rotary Club International Founda-
tion, will provide travel, tuition,
and living expenses for Miss Ger-
ken to study European methods of
water pollution control at the Swiss
university.
Miss Gerken has been a fulltime
assistant to marine biologist Steven
Bugbee only since May, but had
worked parttime in the EPA labo-
ratory for her last two years of
college. She earned her B.S. de-
gree in biology in January from the
University of Missouri's Kansas
City branch.
When she returns from her year
of study in Zurich, Miss Gerken
plans either to work for a master's
degree at UMKC or to study en-
vironmental law at the University
of Oregon Law School at Eugene.
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Shirley Gerken
She is now in Switzerland for a
two-month brush-up course in Ger-
man before the Institute's academic
year begins.
Thirty years: Eurilia V. Bartel,
Alex Berman, Alice J. Coughlin,
Bernice Hiett, Dominick A. Man-
fre, Thaddeus Rajda, Ruth E.
Schmidt, and Murray Stein.
Twenty years: Mae C. Blackford,
Benjamin H. Bochenek, Robert
Chadwick, Anthony Dellavecchia,
Willie R. Oldham, Rheta B. Piere,
Georgia K. Prapas, Henry P. Stetina,
Shirley J. Tacey, James Walker,
and John Zaricki.
Ten years: Margaret Beason, C.
Richard Boehlert, John R. Busik,
Kenneth Gutterman, Frank E. Hall,
Charles E. Holmen, Rosanne Light,
Ludvik A. Matyas, Sylvester I. Ol-
son, Alan E. Peckman, Shirley J.
Rembold, Marie A. Schuermann,
Margaret M. Smith; Margaret T.
Stuart, Ralph Turpin, LaRue L.
Weimer, and Rogert L. Williams.
At the ceremonies at Crystal Mall,
ten persons received quality step in-
creases, three were given special
achievement awards, and one a
length-of-service award.
The in-grade salary increases went
to John W. Jordan, Bennie Mcln-
tyre, Victoria Nelson, Marjorie Pol-
lacco, Murray P. Strier, William A.
Telliard, Jerome Temchin, Maryann
Volkmar, John P. Whitescarver, and
Linda S. Yount.
Stephen A. Cywin, John C.
Golueke, and Robert L. Hardaker
won cash awards and commenda-
tions for special achievement. Hope
M. Howard was given a 20-year
service pin.
3 From EPA to Speak
On City Problems
Three EPA officials will take
part in the third annual Urban
Technology Conference in Boston
Sept. 25-28.
They are John S. A. McGlennon,
Region I administrator, who will
give the keynote address at the
Sept. 27 session on the theme,
"Protecting the Environment," and
two specialists from the Region I
staff, John Calcagni and Wally
Woo, who will give a paper on
EPA's work in air pollution abate-
ment.
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