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U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY •WASHINGTON, D.C. 20460 • JANUARY 1974
Employees Honored at Awards Day
EPA honored 20 individuals
and three groups of employees at
the Agency's third annual Honor
Awards Day ceremonies in
Washington Dec. 12. Eight EPA
men who are also officers of the
Public Health Service received
PHS medals.
"The men and women whom
we honor today," said Adminis-
trator Russell E. Train, "are re-
ally standins for all of us. They
exemplify the way EPA's people
ure responding to the tough prob-
lems we confront.. .and give us
confidence that we have the re-
sources to meet the challenges" of
improving our Nation's environ-
ment.
Alvin L. Aim, assistant ad-
ministrator for planning and man-
agement, presided. Music was
provided by the Air Force Band,
and a color guard representing the
combined armed forces presented
the colors for the flag salute and
National Anthem.
More than 500 employees from
headquarters in Southwest Wash-
ington and other nearby Agency
offices were taken in chartered
buses to the ceremonies, which
were held in the Departmental
Auditorium in the Labor Depart-
ment building on Constitution Av-
enue.
The award winners, whose cita-
tions were read by the ranking
officers in their components of the
Agency, are listed below, with
brief descriptions of their work:
Distinguished Career Award
Dr. Clarence M. Tarzwell.
senior research advisor at
NERC-Corvallis. Ore., and
former director of the center's Na-
tional Marine Water Quality
Laboratory at West Kingston,
R.L, was presented with a special
award for his nearly 40 years of
government service, 29 of which
were with EPA and its predeces-
sor ^encies. Dr. Tarzwell is an
expert on the biological effects of
water pollution and on pesticide
residues in aquatic life. He has
been a pioneer in promoting rec-
ognition of the need for, and de-
veloping methods to accomplish,
the conservation of both freshwa-
ter and marine fish.
Gold Medal for Exceptional
Service
Robert L. Baitin, acting deputy
administrator for general enforce-
ment, for significant efforts to
control and upgrade air quality in
the United States. L. jm led prep-
aration of staff proposals for the
conference on the Clean Air Bill
and represented the Agency
against U.S. Steel in cases involv-
ing an air pollution crisis in Birm-
ingham, Ala.
Dr. Donald I. Mount, director
of the National Water Quality
Laboratory in Duluth, Minn., for
leadership, both as a scientist and
an administrator, in water quality
research. Mount is an interna-
tional authority on pollutants' ef-
fects on freshwater organisms and
has devised bioassay methods now
in wide use. His laboratory first
identified the asbestos particles in
city water supplies obtained from
Lake Superior and called attention
to the hazards involved.
Group award to 12 persons in
Region VI, Dallas, for outstanding
service in controlling oil spills.
The group's work load last year
far exceeded expectations, requir-
ing many hours of hazardous work
(continued on page 2)
These 12 persons from Region VI, Dallas, won a collective gold medal for
their outstanding work in combatting oil spills during the last year.
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EPA Employees
Are Honored
At Awards Day
(continued from page I)
on nights, weekends, and holi-
days. The group had to cope with
504 oil spills and 49 spills of
other hazardous substances during
fiscal 1973, 25 percent more than
predicted. Moreover, they were
credited with helping States in the
region to develop and use better
plans for handling such spills.
Leader of the Oil and Hazardous
Substances Branch is Jerry T.
Thornhill, and members include
E. Wallace Cooper, Richard C.
Peckham, Douglas H. Keefer,
Robert G. Forrest, Charles A.
Gazda, Joseph C. Alleman, David
A. Curtis, Betty N. Callahan, and
Angie H. Rogala. Marion (Mark)
Chandler of the Region's En-
forcement division and Norman E.
Dyer of the Pesticides Branch
were also included in the group
award.
Silver Medal for Superior
Service
Dwight G. Ballinger, director
of the Analytical Quality Control
Laboratory, NERC-Cincinnati, for
initiative in developing the analyt-
ical quality control program and
outstanding leadership in adminis-
tering it. Ballinger led in the
adoption of improved and uniform
methods for EPA and other gov-
ernment laboratories in the testing
of water and liquid wastes and has
represented the Agency at interna-
tional meetings on scientific test-
ing standards.
Dr. Clifford V. Smith Jr.,
deputy regional administrator, Re-
gion I, Boston, for outstanding
work in technical, policy, and
management improvement at the
regional and headquarters levels.
Smith performed important work
with the Federal Regional Council
of New England and helped to
plan a reorganization and consoli-
dation of the Regional Office. As
head of a Washington task force
Silver Medal is awarded to Evelyn Thornton, Grants Administration.
he coordinated the development of
Agency's guidelines for wastewa-
ter effluents.
Dr. Bernard J. Steigerwald,
deputy assistant administrator for
air quality planning and standards,
Durham, N.C., for exceptional
leadership, skill, and ability in the
design and implementation of the
national air pollution control pro-
gram. Steigerwald, head of a staff
of 300 persons, directed the
Agency's work in approving State
plans to implement air pollution
control, a task involving many
tight legislative deadlines and the
coordinated efforts of many peo-
ple.
Robert V. Zener, acting deputy
general counsel, for his contribu-
tions to the legal aspects of the
Agency's water programs, particu-
larly in the environmental impact
statement process and in adminis-
tering the Freedom of Information
Act.
Thomas B. Bracken, regional
counsel for Region I, Boston, for
outstanding legal and policy guid-
ance in developing regional and
headquarters programs. Bracken
was commended in particular for
his handling of the fuel oil short-
age in New England last Feb-
ruary, for his work in the ICC
hearings on Boston-Springfield
rail passenger service, for
negotiating the Boston harbor
agreement on sewage discharges,
and for helping review model
legislation to implement the water
discharge permit program.
Mary Joyce Doss, chief of the
Word Processing Center at Region
IX, San Francisco, for her compe-
tence in setting up and supervising
the center. Mrs. Doss was praised
for her skill in planning, organiz-
ing and directing all aspects of the
center's operation, not only in
utilizing new, more productive
work methods (involving tape- and
card-actuated automatic typewrit-
ers) but also in helping the entire
regional staff learn how to dictate
their written work to the center.
Arsen J. Darnay Jr., deputy as-
sistant administrator and head of
the Office of Solid Waste Manage-
ment Programs, for superior moti-
vation, skill, and management
ability. Darnay has led the
Agency's efforts to make resource
recovery more economical (by
seeking fairer freight rates on
scrap metal, for instance, and by
promoting solid waste as an
energy source). His management
of the Division is credited with
establishing the Agency's re-
spected role in this field among
the States and communities and in
Congress.
David Hanson, special assistant
for transportation, Office of Air
and Water Programs, for his work
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in developing and carrying out
regulations to limit, and eventu-
ally prohibit, the addition of lead
to automotive fuels.
Susan F. Mickey, operations re-
search analyst, Office of Air and
Water Programs, for outstanding
contributions and leadership in
developing the automotive fuel
economy labeling program and in
analyzing data for the Agency's
decisions in the automobile emis-
sions suspension hearings. Ms.
Hickey took on assignments nor-
mally given to persons with much
more experience (she has been
with EPA less than two years)
and carried them out "with dedi-
cation and thoroughness, often at
a significant personal sacrifice,"
said her nominators.
Dr. John H. Knelson, chief,
Clinical Studies Branch, NERC-
Research Triangle Park, N.C., for
scientific work in the health ef-
fects of carbon monoxide. Dr.
Knelson led a team of researchers
who defined the groups most vul-
nerable to this air pollutant and
demonstrated that the national
primary standard protects these
people with an adequate margin of
safety. Without his initiative and
leadership, his nominators said,
EPA "might well have been un-
able to defend" the national stand-
ard for carbon monoxide.
Mark A. Pisano, director, Water
Planning Division, for "dynamic
leadership...in the implementation
of water quality planning, water
quality standards, and State
programs...required by the Federal
Water Pollution Control Act."
Pisano is credited with reorganiz-
ing the division to meet work
loads greatly increased by new
legislation and for directing reg-
ions and States in revising their
water quality standards.
John H. Martin, chief, Pro-
grams Appraisal Branch, Office of
General Counsel, for his original
work in carrying out the civil pen-
alty provisions of the Federal En-
vironmental Pesticide Control Act
of 1972. Martin was also cited for
planning and carrying out the de-
centralization of pesticide law en-
forcement, a function that since
June 30 has been done by EPA
Regional Offices.
Evelyn T. Thornton, chief, Pol-
icy and Procedures Branch, Grants
Administration Division, for her
analytical ability, skill, and tact in
melding the grant programs of 21
different EPA predecessor agen-
cies into one in less than a year's
time. Mrs. Thornton's work has
resulted in the publication and use
throughout the Agency of uni-
form, coherent policies for the
granting of Federal environmental
funds.
John M. Cunningham receives Youth Achievement Award from Mr. Train.
Group Award, Ford Recerti-
fication Team, Office of Mo-
bile Source Pollution Control,
Ann Arbor, Mich., for unusually
meritorious service. This 11-man
team worked very hard on recer-
tifying 1973 Ford vehicles, the ci-
tation states, "thereby averting
certain unemployment" for
thousands of workers and still
"maintaining the integrity" of
EPA's emissions certification
program. The team was headed by
Edmund J. Brune and included
Charles J. Reed, Lawrence I.
Ranka, John C. Shelton, Daniel
C. Stokes, John D. Hendon, Ber-
nard R. Patok, James M. Marzen,
Eric P. Zellin, John C. Thomson,
and Max J. Moore.
Group Award, South Florida
Ecological Study Staff, Office of
Air and Water Programs, Region
IV, for major contributions to the
scientific knowledge of unique
ecosystems in southwest Florida.
The 10-member team, operating
out of a mobile laboratory near
Naples, Fla., spent a year of in-
tensive field work that is provid-
ing objective data on Florida's
swamps, wetlands, fish and wild-
life for future use by EPA and
other agencies in developing land-
and water-use plans to preserve
these unique features. Michael R.
Carter headed the 10-member
team, which included Delbert B.
Hicks, Lawrence A. Burns, Paul
L. Fore, Thomas R. Cavinder,
Herbert L. Revells, Roberta L.
Farley, Thomas W. Schmidt,
Kenneth R. Dugger, and James C.
Higman.
Public Health Service Medals
The PHS Distinguished Service
Medal, highest in the service, was
awarded to two men in EPA:"
Dr. Delbert S. Barth, assistant
surgeon general and director of
NERC-Las Vegas, for outstanding
work in the setting of air quality
standards and in determining the
health effects of pollution.
Donald P. Dubois, sanitary en-
gineer director and deputy re-
gional administrator, Region VIII,
Denver, for leadership in develop-
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Some Gains Noted for EPA Women
By Kate Stahl
Women's Program Division
Some gains in the number and
grade level of women employees
were noted at the second annual
Conference for EPA Women held
in observance of Women's Week
Oct. 15-19.
But some of these gams seem to
be mere "tokenism," and much
remains to be done before
women's potential abilities are
realized in what is still predomi-
nantly a man-supervised agency.
The over-all grade structure for
men and women in EPA is sum-
marized in the adjoining table
During the first three days of
the conference week in each Re-
gional Office and Research
Center, and all week at headquar-
ters, there were individualized
programs specifically addressed to
the needs and concerns of women
in that particular component.
'Examine Yourself
Administrator Russell E. Tram
began the week with a statement
urging EPA employees "to ex-
amine your own attitudes toward
women in our work force.. .When
you discriminate against persons
because of race, religion, or sex,
you violate Federal laws And you
are liable to the consequences of
your actions."
The Administrator urged em-
ployees "to strip away the
camouflage of lack of proper
qualifications that so often masks
the face of discrimination We
can ill afford to squander talent on
the basis of shabby prejudices."
The National Assembly of the
conference met in Denver, Colo.,
Oct. 18-19 at the special invita-
tion of Regional Administrator
John A. Green. The 200 partici-
pants included Women's Program
leaders from EPA headquarters,
Regional Offices and NERCs, and
special guests from cabinet-level
Federal agencies in Denver
Speakers were Ms. Virginia
Allan, Deputy Assistant Secretary
of State for Public Affairs, Mr
Green; Charles Gomez, Region
VIII director, Civil Rights and
Urban Affairs Division; Ms.
Charlie Kilhan Swift, director,
Women's Programs Division; and
Dr. Priscilla Ransohoff, national
president of Federally Employed
Women (FEW).
Dr. Ransohoff stressed the im-
portance of goal-setting by indi-
viduals. She believes that people
are goal-oriented and when they
do not have job objectives there is
a feeling of insecurity or hopeless-
ness. She said too often the indi-
vidual wants instant goal achieve-
ment
Who Are Professionals?
Answering a statement of a
woman in the Denver audience
that secretaries are professionals
and that there should not be the
differential of Civil Service
Commission classification between
clerical-secretarial and profes-
sional, Dr. Ransohoff pointed out
that "professional" means the ac-
quiring of definite skills She said
FEW is considering recommend-
ing to the Civil Service Commis-
sion the establishment of a
certified professional secretarial
rating like that established by the
National Association of Sec-
retaries. Such a rating is given
when a secretary passes tests
based on skills in office manage-
ment, economics, business law
and human relations. This rating
would raise the grade ceiling and
could qualify secretaries for
GS-12 and 13 levels.
Continuing education programs
were also emphasized, education
not only for specialized disciplines
but to develop perspectives and
management skills. Rozanna
Patane of the Women's Training
and Resources Corporation, who
spoke at the Headquarters special
assembly Oct. IS, said the art of
communication must be developed
more forcefully by women She
sees many competent women se-
verely handicapped in the business
world because they are not ar-
ticulating their ideas effectively.
In the area of training EPA has
shown a 49 per cent increase in
the number of women taking pro-
grams in fiscal 1973 over fiscal
1972 Still disappointing are the
number of women who have had
EPA Employees by Grade & Sex
(Fulltime permanent positions)
As of June, 1971 As of June, 1973
Position Percent Percent
Grade Men Women Women Total Men Women Women Total
18
17
16
15
14
13
12
11
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
Total
4
11
42
347
407
720
765
554
17
288
75
358
92
289
147
65
22
13
4.216
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0
0
0
7
11
34
67
92
8
164
38
263
317
545
481
245
77
10
2,359
4 —
2%
3%
5%
8%
14%
32%
36%
34%
42%
78%
65%
77%
79%
78%
43%
36%
4
11
42
354
418
754
832
646
25
452
113
621
409
834
628
310
99
23
6,575
7
26
71
416
687
975
940
625
34
560
50
438
68
276
157
74
20
6
5.430
0
1
1
13
28
54
112
147
9
230
81
418
455
666
5 gO
264
72
31
3,162
4%
1%
3%
4%
5%
11%
19%
21%
29%
62%
49%
87%
71%
79%
78%
78%
84%
37%
7
27
72
429
715
1,029
1.052
772
43
790
131
856
523
942
737
338
92
37
8.592
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Equal Chance for
Jobs, Promotions
Is Agency Policy
Equal opportunity for em-
ployment and advancement in
EPA for all minority groups
was pledged anew by Adminis-
trator Russell E. Train in a
statement to all Agency em-
ployees Nov. 16.
He urged all supervisors and
managers to "improve their hir-
ing practices while maintaining
high performance in the work
of each organizational unit" by
adopting and carrying out
"affirmative action plans" to
assure equal opportunity
Equal opportunity applies, he
said, not only to hiring, but
also to training, upward mobil-
ity, and promotion
Computer Helps Car poo I ing for
EPA Employees in Washington
grade raises or seen job restructur-
ing as a result of advanced train-
ing
Four Recommendations
Four recommendations were
made to help the Agency work
toward equal employment rights
for women
• See that all job vacancies in
program units are well posted
• See that women candidates
are sought out and interviewed for
these jobs
• Place women on job selection
panels to assure that women can-
didates receive consideration
• Encourage program super-
visors and administrative officers
to include at least one-third wo-
men in career training programs.
Members of the Women's Pro-
grams Committee at EPA head-
quarters in Washington include
Margaret Beason, Jacqueline
Copp, Mary Cusato, Nina
Dougherty, Kathie Libby,
Rosanne Light, Shcrvonne Luck,
Jill Marshall, Doris Preston,
Ginger Savell, Geri Werdig,
Gloria Woodard. Eloisc Agee,
Vermclle Jones, and Mernlec Mil-
ler
In regional and field offices the
A computer is being used to
help form more car pools among
the 2,800 EPA employees in the
Washington area
The Agency should "set an ex-
ample" in reducing air pollution,
traffic, and energy use by en-
couraging car pooling, said Ad-
ministrator Russell Tram in a let-
ter to all headquarters employees
announcing the computer-assisted
drive for more efficient home-to-
work travel in congested Capital
City.
Low-cost parking privileges at
the Agency's offices at Waterside
Mall (2,400 employees), Crystal
Mall in Arlington, Va. (300 em-
ployees), and at 1835 K Street
(100 employees) have long been
assigned under a "point system"
giving some preference to car
pools Now the point system will
be altered, Train announced, to
give greater weight to regular ride
sharing three employees will re-
ceive three time the points of one
employee, and a four-person car
pool will automatically rate a
parking permit
The computer's great memory
and sorting speed helps to put po-
tential car poolers in touch with
each other.
It worked this way: on Oct IS
all employees in the Washington
area were asked to fill out ques-
tionnaires giving their home and
work locations, work schedules,
and whether they wished to drive
in a car pool, or ride or both
Data from each questionnaire was
women's program coordinators
are1 Ruth Scidman, Boston; Joan
Colson, New York, Ann Joseph,
Philadelphia, Frances Phillips, At-
lanta; Ruth Sasaki, Chicago;
Diana Dutton, Dallas, Jean Crank,
Kansas City, Gloria Sherman,
Denver, Bobbie Batton. San Fran-
cisco, Susan Jorgcnson, Seattle,
Dclores Platt, Cincinnati. Eleanor
McDonald, Cnrvullis, and Anita
Mullen. Las Vegas
punched on a card for computer
handling. The computer (a time-
sharing facility located at the Na-
tional Institutes of Health in
Bethesda, Md ) printed out for
each respondent a list of fellow
employees from his home area
having similar working hours, to-
gether with their drive-or-nde
preferences
It is up to the individuals to get
in touch with each other to form
the car pools voluntarily; the
computer merely provides a
quicker and more complete can-
vass of possibilities.
Approximately 60 percent of all
Washington area employees filled out
the questionnaire, according to Harri-
son Hoft of the Facilities and Support
Services Division. The response rate
by offices ranged from 5 to 100 percent,
he said. Cards were punched as the
questionnaires came in
In mid-November more than 1,400
persons received individual printouts
listing potential ride sharers, with their
home addresses, offices, and phone
numbers
Hoft said a second computer run was
planned for late filers.
The questionnaire also asked for
information about bus riding
habits and routes, and the com-
puterized information may later be
used to help obtain added public
bus service or to establish bus
chartering groups
Computer-assisted car pooling is
a streamlined, stepped-up version
of the car-pool locater maps often
used in government or industrial
centers to bring riders together. A
large map with a location grid is
posted m a central place, and
would-be car poolers put their
names in pigeon holes indicating
their home and work locations,
hoping some like-minded fellow
employee will find them
EPA employees at Crystal
Mall, Arlington. Va , arc par-
ticipating in a similar computer-
asMstcd program for all the Fed-
eral agencies having offices there
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Current Budget Is $63 Million Over '73
EPA's final operating budget
for fiscal 1974, signed late in Oc-
tober by President Nixon, appro-
priates $52 million more than the
fiscal 1973 budget.
This raises the 1974 total to
$527.2 million, compared with
1973's $475.2 million (see adjoin-
ing table)
The Congress increased appro-
priations for water quality, pes-
ticide, air quality, and noise con-
trol programs and reduced the solid
waste program to $8.7 million,
excluding areawide waste manage-
ment grants. Program management
and Agency and regional manage-
ment appropriations were increased
$12 and $8 million respectively.
On a functional basis, the
largest increases went to abate-
ment and control operations, $41
million, and enforcement, $13.7
million. The research and de-
velopment function was reduced
by $9.5 million.
Major items added to the budget
by Congress included $15 billion
for the abatement and control of
pollution from animal wastes,
transferred to the Department of
Agriculture. Other additions were
$5 million each for:
• Preparation of environmental
statements by EPA, required by a
court ruling last spring;
• Additional research to find
effective biological substitutes for
chemical pesticides; and
• Funding a special study by
the National Academy of Sciences
of the over-all effectiveness and
costs of the Nation's environmen-
tal protection programs.
A ceiling of 9,263 permanent
positions in the Agency, as of the
end of the fiscal year, was ap-
proved by the Conference Com-
mittee. This represents a net in-
crease of 405 positions over the
fiscal '73 ceiling.
The ceiling may be revised up-
ward to reflect the transfer of
temporary employees to permanent
status, the conference report said.
The committee criticized the
Agency for an "apparent lack of
coordination" between headquar-
ters and Regional Offices over
employment ceilings.
EPA's impact statements should
be called "impact statements"
and not "explanations," the con-
ferees decided. The Senate version
of the appropriation bill had used
the term "environmental explana-
tions."
In preparing impact statements
on Agency actions affecting the
environment, the conferees said,
the EPA Administrator and the
chairman of the Council on En-
vironmental Quality should work
with the Secretary of Commerce
"so that the advice and recom-
mendations of private industry, so
essential to the economy and
well-being of the people, will be
given full consideration in the
formulation of environmental pol-
icy."
If the Agency had prepared
such statements in the past and
had "given consideration to such
things as cost to consumers and
producers, our present and
foreseeable energy problems
would likely not be as serious as
they now appear to be," the con-
ference report said.
EPA Budget, This Fiscal Year and Last, by Program and Function
(dollars in thousands)
Agency and
Regional Research and
Management Development
Abatement and
Control
Enforcement
Scientific
Activities
Overseas
Totals
Air
Water Quality .
Water Supply
Solid Wastes
Pesticides
Radiation
Noise
Intermedia
Program Mgi &
Support
Agency & Re-
gional Mgt
Scientific Activi-
ties Overseas .
1973 1974
$66
47
2
22
5
. . 2
14
IS
$45,890 $53,973
1973
,647
,319
,238
,801
.158
,447
281
,877
,453
•
1974
$76,522
42,952
2,454
2,196
10,059
2,142
497
14,807
16.087
$77
78
2
13
14
5
2
22
1973
,692
,829
.018
,013
,064
,164
,445
9
,855
.
-
1974
$80,291
111,501
2,144
6,483
17.246
4,855
3,472
.
31,801
•
1973
$3.923
17,298
.
...
1,841
...
.
8.959
.
1974
$8,412
22,764
.
3.011
.
20
.
1 1 ,574
.
. . .
1973 1974
... $148
. . 143
4
35
. . 21
. . 7
2
. . 14
47
45
$4.000 $2,000 4
1973
.261
,446
,256
,814
.063
.611
,726
,886
,267
,890
.000
1974
$165.225
177,217
4,598
8,679
30.317
6,997
3,989
14,807
59,462
53,973
2,000
Totals
45,890 53,973 177,221 167,716 216.089 257,794 32,020 45,781 4,000 2,000 475,220 527,264
Note: Excludes construction grants, waste treatment management grants, and 1974 pay costs.
Last figures of totals may not add, due to rounding.
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Many Data Systems Available
To EPA People, Other Agencies
The Environmental Information
Systems Directory, announced in
the October issue of Inside EPA,
is available to Agency personnel
and to other Federal organizations
having "environmentally related
missions" in a much larger ver-
sion.
This edition of the Directory
lists all of EPA's administrative
and management systems as well
as those devoted to supporting the
Agency's programs in air and
water pollution control, pesticides,
radiation, etc.
The administrative support data
systems include all those dealing
with Agency management: con-
tracts and grants, financial re-
cords, personnel, property and
supplies, library services, and
similar internal matters.
There are 135 different adminis-
trative support systems listed, 99
of which are automated for com-
puterized storage and access, and
36 manual files. They are ar-
ranged by category and indexed
by subject, manager's name, and
location in EPA's organization.
The data systems maintained for
mission support total 127, of
which 94 are automated and 33
are manual. These are generally
available to State and local en-
vironmental officials and to other
non-Federal research and fact-
finding groups.
Copies of the directory may be
obtained from Leonard Libster,
Office of Planning and Manage-
ment, and inquiries concerning the
use of specific data collections
sould be addressed to him, room
3608, Waterside Mall, telephone
755-0800.
BICYCLING, ANYONE? — On fair fall days at Corvallis the bicy-
cle racks at EPA's research center there averaged 36 bikes, accord-
ing to Chris West, public affairs director, indicating that about a
fourth of the NERC-Corvallis employees were preventing air pollu-
tion, saving fossil fuel, and getting healthy exercise. The girl is
Carolyn Moore, Albany, college student and parttime clerk-typist.
Susan Wyatt, a civil engineer in
the Office of Air Quality Planning
and Standards at NERC-RTP,
wears jeans and hard hat in the
field, like any other engineer. Re-
cently named project officer for
the Lead Emissions Task Force
for stationary sources, Ms. Wyatt
coordinates the activities of 13
engineers, economists, health sci-
entists, biologists, and chemists
from RTP, Regional Offices, and
other Agency programs.
She works under George Walsh,
assistant to the director of the
Emission Standards and Engineer-
ing Division, and her job is study-
ing lead emissions from stationary
sources—principally power plants
and lead smelters—to determine
the most effective standards to be
set. Her study, called a "prefer-
red standards path analysis,1' will
indicate whether or not standards
for lead emissions are needed, and
if so, whether the most effective
regulatory action would be tied to
ambient air quality measurements,
new source performance, or
hazardous pollutant standards.
Ms. Wyatt, 25, is a native of
Lynchburg, Va., and earned a
master's degree in environmental
sciences and engineering at the
University of North Carolina.
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Awards Day Honors Given
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ing and applying controls for air
and water pollution in the region.
PHS medals for meritorious
service went to the following
Earl Anderson, sanitary en-
gineer director, Region 1, Boston,
for outstanding work in solid
waste management programs in
the region.
John A. Cofrancesco, sanitary
engineer director, Office of Water
Program Operations, for contribu-
tions to the development of a
nationwide safe drinking water
program.
H Lamer Hickman Jr., director
of operations, Office of Solid
Waste Management Programs, for
outstanding service in manage-
ment
Dr James E Martin, scientist
director, Office of Radiation Prog-
rams, for leadership in develop-
ment of EPA's radiation protec-
tion standards for the uranium fuel
cycle
Dr 5 David Shearer, sanitary
engineer director, NERC-RTP,
N.C , for initiative and leadership
as director of the Quality Assur-
ance and Environmental Monitor-
ing Laboratory.
Dr Jerry F Stara, veterinary
director, NERC-Cmcinnati, for
achievements in understanding
radiation effects and toxicity in
animals
Youth Achievement Awards
John M Cunningham, Office of
Air and Water Programs, for
"key guidance" in oil spill clean-
up operations on the San Juan
River, Utah, early in October,
1972. Cunningham, sent to assist
Region VIII personnel in handling
this spill, was severely injured in
a helicopter crash Oct. 18 De-
spite paralysis of his legs, he con-
tinues his work at OAWP head-
quarters
Stephen L Griffith, Office of
Air and Water Programs, for
meritorious service in developing
strategy and policy in water pollu-
tion law enforcement Griffith, a
native of Washington, holds de-
grees from Harvard and Oxford,
speaks French and German, and is
a parttime instructor at Dag
Hammarskjold College, Columbia,
Md
Josephy B Handy IV, Office of
Public Affairs, for outstanding
work in producing, since early in
1971, a weekly "briefing book"
for the administrator and top
Agency officials. This book con-
tains digests and excerpts of
newspaper and periodical news
and comment, from throughout the
Nation, on EPA and its programs
and has provided valuable infor-
mation and guidance to its read-
ers Publication of the briefing
book every week without fail has
involved much evening, holiday,
and weekend work for Handy.
James C Oberwetler, Office of
Hazardous Materials Control, for
"outstanding ability to communi-
cate and coordinate with environ-
mental public interest groups and
congressional staffs" despite the
diversity and complexity of the
programs covered by the OHMC
Members of the Awards Board
who decided the individual and
group winners from among more
than SO nominees included Alan
G. Kirk, acting administrator for
enforcement and general counsel;
John A.S McGlennon, Region I
administrator; and the following
deputy assistant administrators
Howard M Messner, administra-
tion, Lillian D. Regelson, water
planning and standards; William
D Rowe, radiation programs, and
Albert C Trakowski, research and
development Daniel C Knapp of
the Personnel Management Divi-
sion is executive secretary to the
board.
Free Classes Set
Free classes in introductory and
remedial typing are being offered
to all EPA employees at the
Waterside Mall headquarters.
Persons interested in learning
new skills or brushing up on old
ones are urged to visit or call Dot
Jones, room 3019A, telephone
50292.
Need Help With
Public Queries?
Call Your FIC
"I'd like to know what Gov-
ernment agency is in charge of
regulating widgets. "
"You don't know? What's
the matter with you9 You work
for the Government, don't
you''"
Ever had an inquiry like
that*7 If so, you probably
thought you could do one of
two things. Either waste your
time trying to find a widget-
related agency in your direc-
tory, or hang up on the caller
and make another citizen un-
happy with the Federal
bureaucracy
But not you can solve this
kind of problem without annoy-
ing yourself or your caller.
Refer callers with questions you
can't answer to the Federal In-
formation Center in their area
Thirty-six cities have local
FICs and in 37 others, people
can make toll-free calls to FICs
through tie-lines.
Remember, information is the
name of the game for the
nation's FICs. Maybe they
don't know any more about
widgets than you do, but it's
their job to find out who in the
Government does.
Make a note of the phone
number of the FIC that serves
your area today Who knows,
maybe sometime you could use
it yourself
Inside EPA, published month-
ly for aO 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. TrumbuD, editor
Office of Public Affairs
Room W218, EPA
Washington, D.C. 20460
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