United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
Issue No. 4
June 21, 1982
Page 13
«EFA TIMES
A PUBLICATION FOR
EPA EMPLOYEES.
Personnel
President Commends EPA
Client Services
Representative
The Client Services Staff
of the Office of Administra-
tion has recently concluded
a study which assessed
the services the Administra-
tion Office provides for
the Agency. The study
confirmed that employees
receiving these services
often become frustrated
because they are unaware
of the services or how
they are provided. In an
effort to improve serv-
ice, the Office of Admin-
istration is creating
Client Representative
positions in its divisions.
The Personnel Management
Division will be the
first Office of Admin-
istration unit to have a
Client Services Represent-
ative. The representa-
tive will use his thorough
knowledge of personnel
operations to respond to
service problems encountered
by Headquarters' employees.
The Client Services Rep-
resentative will work
with the Personnel team
leaders and act as a
general trouble shooter
on such issues as payroll
complications. Richard
Lemley will serve as the
Client Services Representa-
tive with Personnel.
Kathy Petrucelli will
help handle problems in
Lemley's absence. They
can be reached at 382-
5217.
President Ronald Reagan has written to Administrator Anne M.
Gorsuch to thank her "for providing me with the Annual Report
of EPA at yesterday's Cabinet meeting."
"I have read the Report with a great deal of interest," the
President said in his May 21 letter. "You and your colleagues
are to be commended for your many accomplishments during the
first year of our Administration. We have a great story to
tell of 'common sense' environmental progress. I have asked
our staff to work with your public affairs people to do every-
thing we can to make sure this story gets out to the public.
"Please express to all the members of EPA my appreciation of
the excellent job you are doing and my best wishes as you
continue to keep up the fine work.
"Again, my thanks to you personally.
"Sincerely,
"Ronald Reagan."
(EPA Times carried an article about the EPA annual report to
the President in the May 24 issue.)
EPA Scientists Win Recognition
Eight individual EPA researchers and six teams received cash
awards ranging from $200 to $4,800 for outstanding contributions
to scientific research supporting the Nation's efforts to
control environmental pollution.
Dr. Courtney Riordan, Acting Assistant Administrator for
Research and Development, recently announced the results of
the competition. "Our awards program recognizes the exceptional
achievements of EPA scientists in environmental science and
technology," Dr. Riordan said. "Recipients of the EPA awards
have also had their work published in professional journals."
Nominations are judged for quality and significance by EPA's
Science Advisory Board, a panel of more than 70 preeminent
scientists, all from outside EPA, established by Congress
four years ago to advise the Agency on scientific issues.
Six employees of the Environmental Sciences Research Laboratory
at Research Triangle Park, N.C., shared a $4,800 Scientific
Achievement Award, the largest presented by EPA this year,
for their work on "Characterization of the Aerosol in the
Great Smoky Mountains." They are Robert K. Stevens;
Thomas G. Dzubay; Robert W. Shaw, Jr.; William A.
McClenny; Charles W. Lewis; and William E. Wilson.
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(This regional report and the article on EPA'.s health laboratory on the facing page are
the latest in a series of profiles that EPA Times is presenting.)
A Report on Region 3
By Regional Administrator Peter N. Bibko
Region 3 is an area of contrasts.
Compare the megalopolis that extends from
the region's headquarters in Philadelphia
through Baltimore to Washington with the
mountain wilderness of West Virginia.
Contrast the region's major steel, oil
refining, chemical and mining industries
with the rolling farmland of eastern
Virginia. Note the difference between
the easygoing life on the Eastern Shore
of Maryland. Finally, compare Pennsyl-
vania, the fourth most populous State,
with Delaware, the fourth least populous
State.
All these contrasts call for unprec-
edented cooperation between EPA and State
and local governments. It also calls
for continued management improvements and
implementation of regulatory reform.
Both these goals have been my top prior-
ities during the past year.
As with most regions, the proper manage-
ment of hazardous wastes has become one
of the most important pollution control
programs in Region 3. In the past year
Region 3 has financed emergency cleanup
operations under Superfund at seven sites
at a cost of just under $2.7 million. Two
cleanup operations were notable. Chemical
Metals Industries in Baltimore, a site
containing hundreds of drums of corrosive
chemicals, including cyanides and ammonia,
was completely cleaned up during a six-
week period late last year. A similar
cleanup operation was undertaken this
year at Drake Chemical Company in Lock
Haven, Pennsylvania. In seven weeks EPA
contractors removed 35,000 gallons of
liquid waste, 200 tons of industrial
sludge, and several hundred pounds of
acutely toxic gases and explosive
compounds. In addition to emergency
cleanup work, the region has also
obligated Superfund money to five
hazardous waste sites for long-term
remedial cleanup.
Air pollution control remains an important
program at Region 3. A year ago the
region had a backlog of nearly 200 State
implementation plan amendments that
had not been reviewed. Today, the backlog
is gone, and overall SIP processing
time has been reduced from 18 months
fo 12 months. Region 3 has also approved
six applications of the bubble policy.
These bubbles are expected to save
area industries $43 million over the
next several years while substantially
reducing air pollution levels.
In major water pollution activities
EPA and the City of Philadelphia recently
reached agreement on all outstanding
issues related to improved sewage treat-
ment. When the secondary treatment
facilities are completed, we expect
major improvements in the water quality
of the Delaware River estuary. In the
Potomac river basin, Region 3 is develop-
ing a state-of-the-art mathematical
model of water quality in the Potomac
estuary. This model will help EPA and
State governments reach important
decisions on future water pollution
control activities for the river.
Region 3 is also moving aggressively
to delegate major environmental programs
to State governments. Recently, the
region delegated the wastewater permit
program to West Virginia, the last State
in the region to gain such authority.
EPA Awards Ceremony
The names of the winners of EPA's 1982 Honors
Awards will be printed in the next issue of EPA
Times. The ceremony was scheduled for Tuesday,
June 22, in the Departmental Auditorium in
Washington. A total of 65 employees had been
recommended by the EPA Awards Board to
Administrator Anne M.Gorsuch for recognition.
The EPA Times is published every two weeks by EPA's Office of Public Affairs, A-107
Washington, D.C., 20460, to provide current information for all Agency employees.
It is printed on paper with three ring holes so that it can be filed in a binder
for future reference.

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EPA's Health Laboratory
The Health Effects Research Laboratory,
one of the four major laboratories
making up the EPA Environmental Research
Center at Research Triangle Park,
N.C., is the largest of the Agency's
14 research laboratories. The other
EPA laboratories specialize in such
areas as monitoring, control technology
and ecological effects.
While most of the health laboratory's
facilities are located in the Center
itself, the laboratory's Clinical
Research Branch is housed in nearby
Chapel Hill on the University of North
Carolina campus, and its largest
division, the Toxicology and Micro-
biology Division, is located at
Cincinnati, Ohio.
The laboratory, with 260 employees and
a budget of $40 million for Fiscal
Year 1982, is headed by Dr. Gordon
Hueter, a research director with many
years of experience in environmental
health research.
A wide range of pollutants known or
suspected to cause health problems are
studied at this laboratory.
The research focuses on:
•	Air pollutants such as carbon
monoxide, sulfur oxides, nitrogen
oxides, ozone and respirable
particulates.
•	Water pollutants, including con-
taminants in drinking water, waste
water from industry and municipal
treatment plants, and waters used for
recreation. This work is conducted at
the Toxicology and Microbiology
Division in Cincinnati.
•	Toxic substances, hazardous
wastes, and their contributions to
physiological changes, including
reproductive systems, the fetus, the
newborn, the nervous system, and
behavior.
•	Pesticides, primarily to gather
scientific data useful in making
regulatory decisions on the registra-
tion of new products or the proposed
suspension of environmentally harmful
pesticides already in use.
•	Non-ion:zing radiation, emphasiz-
ing the effects of exposure to
electromagnetic radiation from radio
and microwave transmissions.
The primary functions of the
laboratory include:
•	Scientific research on the impact
of environmental pollutants.
•	Development and validation of
biological test methods.
•	Research to develop ways to assess
risk from pollutants more accurately.
•	Preparation of scientific documents
which critically assess what is known
about the health effects of pollutants.
•	General scientific consultation
and support to the Agency on health
effects of pollutants.
Offices Consolidated
Administrator Gorsuch has consolidated
the Agency's Office of Congressional Affairs
and Office of Legislation and created a
Special Assistant for Interest Group
Liaison.
The two Congressional offices are headed
by Leland Modesitt, the former Director of
the Office of Legislation. Jack Woolley
moved from his position as Director of
Congressional Liaison to become the
Administrator's special assistant for
interest group liaison.
"Lee Modesitt brings to his new position
nearly 10 years of Congressional experience,
as well as an outstanding background in
writing and communications," Mrs. Gorsuch
said.
"Jack Wool ley's wealth of business and
government experience will be especially
valuable in broadening our external liaison
efforts," declared Mrs. Gorsuch. "While
employed at the Department of Commerce,
Jack was responsible for establishing a
program similar to the one we are-initiat-
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EPA SCIENTISTS (CONTINUED)
Cannon Named
to Top Post
The appointment of Joseph
A. Cannon as EPA's Associate
Administrator for Policy
and Resource Management
has been announced by
Anne M. Gorsuch, EPA
Administrator. Cannon has
been acting in his new
post since September 1981.
Cannon will be responsible
for policy analysis,
regulatory reform, the
budget, standards, regula-
tions, and management
systems and evaluation.
He joined the Agency in
May 1981 as special assist-
ant to the Administrator
and was responsible for
examining directions to
be taken by the Agency with
respect to regulatory reform.
"Joe Cannon is one of the
most capable individuals
with whom 1 have worked,"
said Mrs. Gorsuch.
Cannon graduated cum
laude from the J. Reuben
Clark Law School at
Brigham Young University
in 1977 where he was an
editor of the school's
law review. He was
associated with the
Washington, D.C., office
of a Houston, Texas, law
firm from 1979 to 1981.
Prior to that, he was
associated with a
Washington, D.C. law
office.
From 1977 to 1978, Cannon
served as a law clerk in
the U.S. District Court
for the District of Utah.
He is the author and co-
author of law journal
articles on natural gas
curtailment, land use
compatibility and secu-
rities law. Cannon, 32,
a native of Salt Lake
City, Utah, is a member
of the district and Utah
Bars.
Other awards for work done at the Environmental Sciences
Research Laboratory at RTP included:
Another award to Charles W. Lewis, who, in addition in to
his team award, also received a $750 individual award for
research on the "Composition of Size-Fractionated Aerosol in
Charleston, W.Va."
A $200 award to Fred H. Haynie for his work on "Theoretical
Air Pollution and Climate Effects on Materials Confirmed by
Zinc Corrosion Data."
An award of $200 to A. Paul Altshuller for research on
"Seasonal and Episodic Trends in Sulfate Concentrations (1963
to 1978) in the Eastern United States."
Six scientists from the Health Effects Research Laboratory at
Research Triangle Park shared a $1,250 award for their study
on "Mutagenesis and Morphological Transformation of Mammalian
Cells." They are Stephen Nesnow, Martha Moore, Helen
Garland, Barry Howard, Gaynell Curtis and and Deloris Graham.
Robert M. Clark, of the Municipal Environmental Research
Laboratory in Cincinnati, Ohio, won $750 for his work on
"Small Water Systems; Role of Technology."
A team from the Health Effects Research Laboratory stationed
at Cincinnati, Ohio, won $1,250 for their work on "Thiodiglycolic
.Acid: A Major Metabolite of Bis (2-chloroethyl) Ether." The
members of this team were: Robert D. Lingg, William H. Kaylor,
Steven M. Pyle, and Robert G. Tardiff.
David T. Tingey of the Environmental Research Laboratory at
Corvallis, Oregon, won $1,250 for his project "The Influence
of Light and Temperature on Isoprene Emission Rates from Live
Oak."
Carol E. Pesch, of the Environmental Research Laboratory at
Narragansett also won $1,250 for work on "Influence of Three
Sediment Types on Copper Toxicity to the Polychaete Neanthes
arenaceodentata."
Gilman D. Veith and David L. DeFoe, both of the Environmental
Research Laboratory at Duluth, Minn., shared a $2,000 award
for their project on "Measuring and Estimating the Bioconcen-
tration Factor of Chemicals in Fish."
Michael R. Schock of the Municipal Environmental Research
Laboratory in Cincinnati won a $1,500 award for his project
on "Response of Lead Solubility to Dissolved Carbonate in
Drinking Water."
Victor J. Bierman, Jr., and David M. Dolan shared a $200
award for work they did at the Environmental Research Laboratory
in Duluth on "Statistical Analysis of the Spatial and Temporal
Variability of the Ratio Chlorophyll A to Phytoplankton Cell
Volume in Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron."
Sharing an award of $200 were John A. Couch and Steven S.
Foss, both of the Environmental Research Laboratory at Gulf
Breeze, Fla., for their project "The American Oyster
(Crassostrea virginica) as an Indicator of Carcinogens in the
Aquatic Environment."
James L. Lake of the Environmental Research Laboratory at
Narragansett won S200 for his project "Origins of Polycyclic
Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Estuarine Sediments."

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