U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Personnel Division
Office of Administration
Office of Planning & Management
Washington, D.C. 20 460
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YOUTH ACTION
PROGRAMS in EPA
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OCTOBER 1973
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Personnel Division
Office of Administration
Office of Planning and Management
Washington, D.C. 20460

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CONTENTS
Memorandum from the President
EPA Youth Program Goals
Foreword
I. Employment Possibilities for High School Students
Stay-in-School
Summer Aid
Federal Junior Fellowship
II. Employment Possibilities for Undergraduate, Graduate, and
Work-Study
Cooperative Education
Summer Employment Program
General Part-time Student Employment
III.	Faculty and Special
Special Summer Environmental Education Projects
Career Employment of Young Professionals
IV.	Current Appointing Authorities
V. Addresses: Regional Offices and National Environmental
Research Centers
Law Students

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THE WHITE HOUSE
March 31, 1970
MEMORANDUM FOR
HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
Our society's greatest resource is its youth. Young Americans to-
day are more aware than ever before of the problems and the
opportunities before us. They have in high degree the ideals, vision,
sensitivity and energy that assure our future.
We who direct the affairs of government have a special obliga-
tion to provide for the constructive use of these qualities—to
enlarge the participation and involvement of young people in
government. How well we communicate with youth and seek the
advantage of their abilities will influence our effectiveness in
meeting our responsibilities.
I would like you to make a thorough and critical review of how
your managers determine long-range staffing needs, attract tal-
ented young people to their staffs, utilize and develop them, and
provide mechanisms through which ideas can be expressed and
considered. Each department and agency must assure that:
—	Manpower planning provides for an adequate and continuing
intake of career trainees to meet future requirements in
the administrative, professional and technical fields.
—	Young people are placed in jobs that challenge their full
abilities and provide opportunities to grow, innovate and
contribute in a real way to the work of the organization.
—	Young professionals are exposed to the decision-making
processes and to a broad view of their agencies' mission.
—	Open channels for communication are established and freely
used, and provide for listening, considering and responding,
with fast means for ideas to reach officials who can act
on them.
—	All supervisors understand how much they influence young
employees' job attitudes and career decisions through their
receptivity, their interest and their flexibility.
In addition to what is done within governn, jnt, we must build
other links with American youth. Insulation from the operations
of government generates misunderstanding and misconceptions.
Efforts must be made to provide knowledge about activities being
undertaken to solve complex problems and meet human needs.
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Among the steps which managers can take to bring this about are
these:
—	Enable Federal officials to appear on campuses as guest
lecturers and speakers in their areas of primary interest.
—	Encourage able professional employees to accept appoint-
ments as part-time faculty members.
—	Provide opportunities for faculty members to be employed
during breaks in their academic schedules where their ex-
pertise can be of benefit to government programs.
—	Employ students in temporary jobs related to their careers,
through the summer intern program and other plans de-
signed to provide a practical exposure to government op-
erations.
—	Assure that staff members who recruit on campus are so
well suited to their assignments that you would be pleased
to have them regarded as your personal representatives.
—	Inform academic institutions about government programs and
the contributions made by their graduates and faculty.
I have asked the Chairman of the Civil Service Commission to
provide leadership in this vital area and to advise me of signifi-
cant developments and progress.
The beginning of this decade is a fitting time for us to demonstrate
our commitment to the full involvement of today's youth in the
processes of government which will help shape their tomorrow
and ours. Only with the help of this generation can we meet the
challenges of the 1970s.
Richard Nixon
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EPA YOUTH PROGRAM GOALS
EPA Youth Programs are a combination of action-oriented pro-
grams to meet the needs of EPA and of today's youth on a
national scale. EPA's youth programs provide for input from
high school students through graduate degree candidates at all
levels of the Agency.
An overview of the state of environmental activity at local, state,
and Federal levels will be an integral component of our youth
programs.
Goals:
With its overall mission to improve environmental quality, EPA
is establishing special youth programs to:
—	provide youth an opportunity to participate in environmental
improvement efforts at the Federal level
—	stimulate youth's interest in the country and in the environ-
ment specifically
—	train future environmentalists as scientific and planning
leaders
—	provide jobs for the country's young people
—	relieve manpower restraints on EPA by involving large num-
bers of young people in various part- and full-time positions.
EPA interns visit Capitol HiU to learn of current proposals in environmental legislation.
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FOREWORD
This report describes the various programs which fruitfully em-
ploy the enthusiasm and commitment of young men and women
within the Environmental Protection Agency. These programs help
join EPA managers and the nation's youth in their mutual efforts
to curb environmental degradation and enhance the quality of life.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency was estab-
lished December 2, 1970, bringing together for the first time in
a single agency the major environmental control programs of the
Federal Government. The Agency was charged with mounting an
integrated, coordinated attack on the environmental problems of
air and water pollution, solid waste management, pesticides, radi-
ation, and noise.
The Environmental Protection Agency has regional offices in
ten major cities. The regional offices are staffed by specialists in
each program area and headed by regional administrators pos-
sessing broad authority to act for the Environmental Protection
Agency in matters within their jurisdiction.
The Environmental Protection Agency's creation marked the
end of the piecemeal approach to our nation's environmental
problems which have so often inhibited progress or merely sub-
stituted one form of pollution for another.
More and more people within our society want to participate
in the development of a new environmental ethic—a way of life
which will allow the earth's inhabitants to retain and improve
the life-enhancing features of technology without repeating and
intensifying the mistakes of the past.
Much of the impetus for a unified federal action toward im-
proving the environment came from the nation's youth on cam-
puses and in environmental action groups. The U.S. Environ-
mental Protection Agency attempts to respond to these youth in
the best way by enlisting their energies and ideas in the national
effort to help change those habits and those obsolete viewpoints
which have led to the current confrontation with gross pollution
and threats of irreversible environmental damage.
We welcome your participation in our efforts to promote the full
involvement of youth in our activi
Howard M. Messner,
Deputy Assistant Administrator
for Administration
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Employment Possibilities for Hipli School Students
Stay-in-School
In 1973 the Environmental Protection Agency employed a total
of 418 Stay-in-School students who worked 16 hours/week during
the school year and 40 hours/week during the summer and other
vacation periods. The students must be between 16-22 years of
age and meet certain economic need criteria. These part-time or
intermittent positions are available for students who are enrolled
or accepted for enrollment in an accredited high school or uni-
versity. The students are able to gain valuable work experience
as clerk-typists, general office workers, mail clerks, library aids,
audio-visual aids, and laboratory aids. Those student who do not
go on to educational institutions beyond high school provide a
valuable recruitment source at the lower employment levels.
Stay-in-School students are ceiling exempt and the salaries are
paid by the participating office.
Summer Interns attend a seminar on Environmental cost of electric power generation.
Summer Aid
Certified as to economic need eligibility by the U.S. Employ-
ment Service, summer aids are employed full-time during the
summer in jobs similar to those for Stay-in-School students. Stu-
dents must be between 16-22 years of age. Primary referral sources
are set up in high schools to receive applications and qualify
students for the summer aid program. In 1973 there were 119
summer aids working in EPA offices.
Summer aids are ceiling exempt and salaries, generally mini-
mum wage, are paid by the participating office.
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Federal Junior Fellowship
The Federal Junior Fellowship Program was established as an
on-going source of quality college and technical school graduates
for entry level federal jobs in professional, technical and adminis-
trative work. It provides selected high school seniors with career
related work experience in Federal agencies during summers and
other vacation periods while they attend college,
EPA first participated in the Federal Junior Fellowship Program
in 1972. Eight D.C. area high school seniors were hired under a
4—summer training program which the Agency has entitled the
"Urban Environmental Intern Program." The program is designed
to provide first-hand knowledge in the technical and socio-political
areas which impact so greatly on the urban environment. The Fed-
eral Junior Fellowship Program is a model program which can
onljr be utilized in the D.C. Metropolitan area.
Each year the Civil Service Commission asks officials at local
high schools to nominate several seniors as candidates for the
Federal Junior Fellowship Program.
EPA officials evaluate each applicant separately, taking into ac-
count such considerations as degree of financial need, academic
achievements, counselors' and teachers' evaluations, and perform-
ance in the oral interview.
Students in the Junior Fellowship Program return each summer
throughout their undergraduate career.
Junior Fellows are appointed at the GS-2-4 levels, with salaries
being paid by the participating office. The work assigned to a
Junior Fellow should only use routine clerical skills incidentally.
Junior Fellows are ceiling exempt.
Employment Possibilities for Undergraduate, Graduate,
and Law Students
Work-Study
Under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964, universities are
provided work-study funds to facilitate employment of students
who require eainings to continue their education. In 1973, 89
students were working in EPA offices under work-study agreements
in which the Agency pays only 20% of the student's salary.
A work-study student works not more than 15 hours/week in
any academic term and may work 40 hours/week during vacation
periods and in the summer. Work-Study students are not considered
(employees of the Agency and therefore do not affect ceiling,
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Students register with their university placement or financial aid
officer for work-study assignments. The university refers eligible
• students to EPA for the assignments which we have identified.
, A one year renewable agreement is then signed by EPA and the
university covering the staffed positions.
Cooperative Education Program
Cooperative Education agreements are signed with colleges or
universities that design special alternative work and study cur-
ricula for their students. Generally, two students share one posi-
tion, alternating every three or six months, depending on the Uni-
versity Co-op schedule. The Environmental Protection Agency de-
velops work assignments which must be approved for academic
credit by the university, and the student's supervisor completes
evaluations which partially, determine the student's grade. Gen-
erally, a student begins his assignment in his sophomore or junior
year and continues employment until graduation.
All students stand in the upper half of their class and have a
"B" average or better. Students are usually majoring in an area
closely related to their work assignments, which are of a non-
clerical nature.
In 1973, 26 Co-op students were working in the Environmental
Protection Agency offices. This will be the first year in which we
will be able to develop some statistics on the retention rate of
Co-op students upon graduation.
Students are charged against temporary or permanent full-time
ceiling and the salary is paid by the participating office.
SUMMER EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM FOR YOUTH
Summer Employment Examination
College level students who have qualified for summer employ-
ment through the examination procedure are hired in clerical, ad-
ministrative and laboratory assistant positions. Almost 200 stu-
dents were employed through the Summer Employment Examina-
tion in 1973.
Summer Intern Program
Summer Interns are candidates with a bachelor's degree or higher
who are employed in professional, analytic and scientific areas.
Students gain eligibility by virtue of their academic credentials
and their particular qualifications for the position. There were
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moie than 200 Summer Interns employed in EPA offices during
the summer of 1973.
Federal Summer Intern Program
Federal Summer Interns are distinguished from regular EPA in-
terns only by their selection. Each summer EPA sets aside a few
positions which are advertised at select colleges. Students are nomi-
nated by a faculty committee and competition is limited to about
10-12 students for each position. In 1973, there were six Federal
Summer Interns in EPA.
More detailed information about filing deadlines and tests can
be found in the U.S. Civil Service Commission booklet, Summer
Jobs in Federal Agencies.
Federal summer interns in an infrormal meeting with Howard Messner, Deputy
Assistant Administrator for the Administration.
General Part-Time Student Employment
Although exact statistics on participation are not available, part-
time temporary student appointments are widely used throughout
the Environmenal Protection Agency. Students are brought into
the Agency in areas directly related to their academic studies.
Their appointments can be worked either full-time for up to six
months or part-time until they have worked 1,040 hours. This
appointment authority is very useful because students are able to
obtain part-time employment in Environmental Protection Agency
offices in the vicinity of their universities, or they may obtain short
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term, full-time assignments to satisfy field internships which are
gaining increasing popularity with universities. This employment
mechanism is also used for high school science or mathematics
teachers who are largely employed in the National Environmental
Research Centers. Undergraduate and graduate students may apply
individually or through their schools. Students are charged to other
than full-time permanent ceiling.
FACULTY AND SPECIAL
Special Summer Environmental Education Projects
Special projects, conducted within EPA or within communities,
can be arranged on a pay or non-pay status. Students or faculty
members receive technical guidance, use EPA research facilities,
and arrangements can be made with universities to grant credit for
completed projects. In some instances university internship pro-
grams provide a stipend for the independent research projects.
Two of the environmental education projects funded by the
Office of Public Affairs—one in Montgomery County, Maryland,
and the other in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, involved three teach-
ers and about 50 students. These projects made significant contri-
butions to their communities, and actively involved junior high
and high school students, school administrations and individual
members of the community. Also, students in the Montgomery
project formulated a proposal of independent study groups work-
ing to carry out project objectives during the regular school year.
Faculty who wish to run special projects may apply with a prepared
proposal on an individual basis; appointments are not to exceed
130 days.
Career Employment of Young Professionals
To maintain a continuous intake of young professionals in ad-
ministrative and program activities, the Environmental Protection
Agency participates in the Federal Management Intern Program.
The program's design requires on-the-job and formal training to
keep pace with the progressive capabilities of the interns. Four
rotational assignments, including a mandatory field experience,
provide the interns with a broad exposure to Agency programs and
decision-making processes. In its first two years, EPA hired and
trained a total of 18 Management Interns.
Program plans and application procedures are announced an-
nually in mid-April by the Headquarters office. The Management
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Intern Committee interviews highly qualified candidates and makes
final selections.
Applicants must be eligible for GS-7 or 9 positions and be within
reach on the CSC Management Intern Register, or hold Career
or Career-Conditional appointments with EPA and have passed the
FSEE within the past year.
CURRENT APPOINTING AUTHORITIES
General. There are currently available for use in the Federal
service a number of appointing authorities around which meaning-
ful youth programs have been built. In many regions and the EPA
headquarters, extensive use is being made of high school or college
students or faculty members who have been appointed under these
authorities. In most instances, the Agency is obtaining outstanding
services from young people who occupy temporary positions for
varying lengths of time. Students are appointed on a full-time,
part-time, or intermittent basis depending on their assign-
ment, school schedule or other factors. Appointments under Sched-
ule A authorities do not require a Civil Service examination.
Increased use of these authorities to attract young people to the
Agency can produce maximum benefits to the organization. Not
only can we benefit from the services rendered in terms of accom-
plishing our critical Agency missions but it provides us with a
fresh outlook from young people who have demonstrated a keen
interest in environmental issues. It also provides us with a 'ready
reserve' of future talent since these same students, in many in-
stances, are the future employees of the Federal workforce.
The Schedule A Appointing Authorities available for use are:
213,3102(o). Under this authority, agencies may appoint per-
sons to positions of a scientific, professional or analytical nature
when filled by bona fide members of the faculty of an accredited
college or university who have qualifications for the positions to
which appointed. Employment under this provision shall not ex-
ceed 130 working days a year.
213.3102(p), Agencies may appoint persons to positions of a
scientific, professional, or analytical nature when filled by bona
fide graduate students at accredited colleges or universities pro-
vided that the work performed for the Agency is to be used by
the student as a basis for completing certain academic require-
ments toward a graduate degree. Employment under this provision
may be continued only so long as the foregoing conditions are met,
and the total period of such employment shall not exceed one
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year in any individual case. Use of this authority has proven ex-
tremely beneficial to the Agency. Young professionals undertak-
ing graduate work can be used on a part-time, intermittent or full-
time basis. While making a contribution to kthe Agency, students
become familiar with the functions and activities of the organiza-
tion and often accept permanent employment upon completion of
their graduate studies.
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2133102(q). Agencies may appoint persons to temporary or
intermittent positions at GS-7 and below when the appointees are
to assist scientific, professional, or technical employees. Persons
employed under this provision shall be (1) bona fide students at
high schools or accredited colleges or universities pursuing courses
related to the field in which employed; or (2) bona fide high
school science and mathematics teachers.
No person shall be appointed under this provision (i) in a posi-
tion of a routine clerical type; or (ii) in excess of 1,040 working
hours a year.
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213.3102(w). Agencies may appoint persons to part-time or in-
termittent positions the duties of which involve work of a routine
nature when filled by students appointed in furtherance of the
President's Youth Opportunity Stay-in-School Campaign and when
the following conditions are met: (1) Appointees are enrolled in
or accepted for enrollment in a resident secondary school or in-
stitution of higher learning, accredited by a recognized accrediting
body; (2) employment does not exceed 16 hours in any calendar
week (40 hours in any calendar week which falls within a vaca-
tion period); (3) while employed, appointees continue to main-
tain an acceptable school standing, although they need not attend
school during the summer; (4) appointees need the earnings from
the employment to continue in school; and (5) salaries are fixed
by the agency head at a level commensurate with the duties as-
signed and the expected level of performance. Appointments under
this authority shall not extend beyond one year: Provided, that
such appointments may be extended for additional periods of not
to exceed one year if each of the conditions for initial appoint-
ments are still met. A person may not be appointed under this
authority unless he has reached his 16th birthday but not his 22nd
birthday. No new appointments may be made under this authority
between May 1 and August 31, inclusive.
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An eighth grade student at the
Cabin John Junior High School,
demonstrates water sample analysis
to Chartes Harden, Director, Per-
sonnel Management Division,
Washington, D.C.
Vincent Bradley, a Federal Junior
fellow has a four year internship in
audio-visual communications.
Summer Aids visit the lightship
"Chesepeake", which conducts
environmental education programs
for inner-city youths.

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
REGIONAL OFFICES

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REGION I

Serving
Personnel Office
States: Conn.,
Environmental Protection Agency
Maine, Mass.,
Room 2303
N.H., R.I.,
John F. Kennedy Building
Vermont
Boston, Mass. 02203
REGION II

Serving
Personnel Office
States: N.J.,
Environmental Protection Agency
N.Y., P R.,
Room 847
Virgin Is.
26 Federal Plaza
New York, N.Y. 10007
REGION III

Serving
Personnel Office
States: Del.,
Environmental Protection Agency
Md., Pa.,
Curtis Bldg.
Va., W. Va.
6th & Walnut Street
Philadelphia, Pa. 19106
REGION IV

Serving
Personnel Office
States: Ala.,
Environmental Protection Agency
Fla., Ga.,
Suite 300
Ky., Miss.,
1421 Peachtree St., N.E.
Tenn., N.C., S.C.
Atlanta, Ga. 30309
REGION V

Serving
Personnel Office
States: 111.,
Environmental Protection Agency
Ind., Minn.,
One N. Wacker Dr.
Mich., Ohio, Wise.
Chicago, 111. 60607
REGION VI
Personnel Office
Serving
Environmental Protection Agency
States: Ark., La.,
1600 Patterson Street
N.M., Tex., Okla.
Suite 1100

Dallas, Texas 75201

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REGION VII
Serving
States: Iowa, Kan.,
Mo., Neb.
REGION VIII
Serving
States: Colo.,
Mont., N.D.,
S.D., Utah
REGION IX
Serving
States: Ariz.,
Calif., Nev.,
Hawaii, Guam,
Am. Samoa,
Trust Territories,
Wake Is.
REGION X
Serving
States: Idaho,
Ore., Wash., Alaska
Personnel Office
Environmental Protection Agency
1735 Baltimore Avenue
Kansas City, Mo. 64108
Personnel Office
Environmental Protection Agency
Lincoln Tower Bldg.
I860 Lincoln St.
Denver, Colo. 80203
Personnel Office
Environmental Protection Agency
100 California St.
San Francisco, Calif. 94111
Personnel Office
Environmental Protection Agency
1200 Sixth Avenue
Seattle, Washington 98101
National Environmental Research Centers
Personnel Office
Environmental Protection Agency
National Environmental Research Center
1055 Laidlow Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45268
Personnel Office
Environmental Protection Agency
National Environmental Research Center
241 Yorktowne Building
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27711
Personnel Office
Environmental Protection Agency
National Environmental Research Center
P. O. Box 15027
Las Vegas, Nevada 89114
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National Environmental Research Center
Environmental Protection Agency
200 S. W. 35th Street
Corvallis, Oregon 97330
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SPO 870-776
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