Issue No. 30
October 1983
United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
Office of
Public Affairs (A-107)
Washington DC 20460
Publication	—
&EPA TIMES
Carlucci Heads Survey of Budget, Personnel Systems
EPA Administrator William D. Ruckelshaus (leftJ chats with Frank C. Carlucci (center)
and John W. Gardner, members of a National Academy of Public Administration panel
conducting a study of EPA management systems. Carlucci, president of Sears World
Trade, Inc., and a former Deputy Secretary of the Defense Department, is chairman of
the panel. Gardner is the founder of Common Cause and a former Secretary of Health,
Education and Welfare.
The National Academy of Public
Administration's study of EPA man-
agement systems needed in the years
ahead got rolling in September as
study teams began interviews with
EPA managers. Later, a larger
sampling of Agency workers will be
involved as NAPA asks a cross section
of employees to complete a question-
naire now being developed.
Frank C. Carlucci, president of
Sears World Trade, Inc., and a former
Deputy Secretary of DOD, heads the
prestigious 10-member panel con-
ducting the study (see page 2 for the
complete panel lineup).
The study will concentrate initially
on budget and personnel, two of the
Agency's critical systems, as a key to
EPA's overall management systems
needs.
In the personnel area, the NAPA
team will cover such issues as com-
munications between headquarters
and the field, staffing, merit pay, per-
formance appraisals, incentive
awards, salaries, employee rights,
affirmative action, executive utiliza-
tion, career development, and labor
relations.
On the budget side, the study will
probe EPA's mandatory and discre-
tionary spending policies and the rela-
tionship of the budget to management
of the Agency.
In announcing the study in August,
Deputy Administrator Alvin L. Aim
said the intent is to "find ways to bet-
ter utilize the extremely talented and
professional people in EPA so we can
do a more effective job of protecting
public health and the environment.
"We need to look ahead, to seek im-
provement, so that we can say after
we have left EPA that we planned for
the future management of the
Agency—that this was our legacy,"
they added.
Howard Messner, Assistant Ad-
ministrator for Administration, said
EPA has a unique opportunity now to
identify and build the management
systems the Agency will need for
years to come.
"EPA employees have shown that
they want to participate in the
strengthening of the Agency," Messner
said. "The White House, Congress and
the public all want a more effective
EPA. All of these elements are coming
together at the same time."
Anyone who wants to offer ideas or
comments on the study may call
David Alexander, OA, project manager
of the study, at (202) 382-4427.
Carlucci and other members of the
NAPA panel will participate per-
sonally in the study, visiting a num-
ber of EPA facilities and working
actively with a staff of nine full-time
people. In addition, Carlucci has as
his special assistant for the study
Alan L. Dean, who was the first Assis-
tant Secretary for Administration at
the Department of Transportation and
held other high level posts at OMB,
FAA and HHS before his retirement
from the federal service.
Eldon Taylor, EPA's first Deputy
Assistant Administrator for Resources
Management and later Inspector
General at NASA, heads the staff
studying EPA budget systems. The
personnel study is being directed by
Betty Bolden, Deputy Assistant Secre-
tary for Administration at Labor.
NAPA is a private, non-profit organ-
ization founded 16 years ago. The fin-
al report on the EPA study is due in
February 1984.
EPA Times is published monthly to provide current information for and about EPA employees. Comments or suggestions are welcome. Please
direct them to: Office of Public Affairs, A-107. Telephone 382-4367.

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NAPA Panel Members for EPA Study
•	Frank C. Carlucci. Chairman. President, Sears World Trade, Inc.; U.S.
Ambassador to Portugal, 1976-78; Deputy Director, CIA, 1978-81; Dep-
uty Secretary of Defense, 1981-82.
•	John W. Gardner, founder of Common Cause and former Secretary of
Health, Education and Welfare.
•	Robert W. Fri, President, Energy Transition Corp. and, in the early
ly'/Os, Deputy Administrator and later Acting Administrator of EPA.
•	Ersa H. Poston. former Vice Chairman, Merit Systems Protection
Board, U.S. Delegate to the UN General Assembly in 1970; president nf
International Personnel Association, 1975.
•	Robert E. Merriain, Partner, Alexander Proudioot Co.; Depuly Assis-
tant to the President, 1958-61. ^
•	Vicluria Tscliinkel, Secieldiy, Flurida Depditmeiil of Enviioiuiieii lal
Regulation; member of EPA's Toxic Substances Advisory Committee
and the Energy Department's Energy Research Advisory Board.
•	Gerald McManis. President. McManis Associates: former senior asso-
ciate, Cresap, McCormick & Paget; former director of systems analysis
and management techniques. Navy Department.
•	Simon Lazarus, Partner, Powell, Goldstein, Fram &. Murphy; Associ-
ate Director of WhiLe House Domestic Policy Slaff, 1977-81.
•	William Walker, Partner. Mudge, Rose & Guthrie; Director. Presiden-
tial Personnel Office, 1974-75.
•	Dale McOmber, Assistant Director for Budget Review, OMB, 1973-
1980.
EPA Scientist Joe Elder
Elected to Six-Year Term
With Radiation Council
Dr. Joe Allen Elder, an EPA scientist,
was elected recently to a six-year term
on the National Council on Radiation
Protection and Measurements.
Elder, who joined EPA as a research
scientist in 1974, is now acting direc-
tor of the Experimental Biology Divi-
sion at the Agency's Health Effects Re-
search Laboratory in Research Triang-
le Park, N.C.
As a member of the National Coun-
cil, Elder will be one of about 100 ex-
perts from industry, academia, public
and private health research organiza-
tions, and government agencies who
serve voluntarily to aid in collecting,
analyzing, and disseminating scientif-
ic information and recommendations
about radiation protection and radia-
tion measurements.
The Council was chartered by Con-
gress in 1964.
OPM Decides to Move
On Merit Pay Program
Despite Delay on Raise
The amount of the general pay in-
crease for federal employees and the
effective date of the increase have not
yet been resolved by Congress and the
President. The President was expected
to delay the federal pay raise beyond
October, which also affects the merit
pay program since part of merit pay
funding is derived from the annual
comparability increase.
The Office of Personnel Man-
agement, however, has decided to go
ahead with merit pay implementation
during the normal October/November
time frame, with funding limited to
amounts derived from within-grade
and quality step factors. When the
general pay raise becomes effective for
General Schedule (GS] employees,
Merit Pay employees will receive the
full amount of the comparability in-
crease.
If you have questions, contact your
servicing personnel officer.
Drafted Into Federal
Service, Bellack's Still
At It 40 Years Later
Some people get a watch atter the^
have been with an employer for 40
years. Dr. Ervin (Erv) Bellack got a
giant toothbrush.
Bellack, a chemist in the Office of
Drinking Water, was honored by past
and present colleagues from EPA and
other agencies at a luncheon com-
memorating bis long onrt vnrinH
career.
Erv has worked all his life but he
nftvftr had to apply fat- a job. His gov-
ernment service began when he was
drafted into the Army in 1942. The
Fish and Wildlife Service offorod Bel
lack a post after World War II, the
U.S. Public Health Service recruited
him into what is now the Department
of Health and Human Services, and
President Nixon reorganized him into
EPA. In his only brook in fedoiYil sru-
vice, Bellack spent a year in post-
graduate study following World War II
(he earned his doctorate in chemical
engineering).
During his tenure with the Fish and
Wildlife Service, Bellack was the
to synthesize and test Compound
1080, a potent pesticide that is still
source of controversy.
While with the Public Health Ser-
vice, Bellack earned an international
reputation for his expertise in
fluoridation and defluoridation tech-
nology, leading training courses and
conducting technical evaluations in
many parts of the world. It was his
achievements in that field that
prompted the gift of the super-size
toothbrush from PHS.
At EPA, Bellack has worked with
notable success in the development of
drinking water regulations.
Along with the toothbrush, Bellack
also received a key from his EPA col-
leagues at the testimonial affair. It
wasn't a key to the city, but to the
water treatment plant in Bartlett,
Texas. That's where defluoridation got
its start under Bellack's careful eye
because natural levels of fluoride in
Bartlett's water were excessive, dis-
coloring the teeth of community resi-
dents.
Bellack has no plans for retiremejj
at the present time. Unless his carcT
pattern changes after all these year^l
he'll probably just stay at EPA until
he gets a better offer.
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Senior Executive Group Opens Membership Drive
Leaders of Senior Executives Association pause for the photog-
rapher during a get-acquainted meeting with Administrator Wii-
Jiam D. Ruckeishaus. From left: Ed /ohnson, OPTS; Jim Elder,
OW; Mary Louise Uhlig, OPTS; Ruckeishaus; David Burckman,
Association president; and Marian Mlay, OW, EPA membership
chairman for the group.
Hfers of the Senior Executive
Association (SEA) had a get-
acquainted meeting with top officials
of EPA as the group kicked off a mem-
bership drive in the Agency last
month.
Top officers of SEA and EPA
leaders met with Administrator
William D. Ruckeishaus, Deputy
Administrator Alvin L. Aim, and
Howard Messner, Assistant Adminis-
trator for Administration.
SEA Chairman Dick Strombotni de-
scribed SEA as a professional associa-
tion, with a full-time staff, whose four
major goals are to:
•	Improve the efficiency, effective-
ness and productivity of the federal
government.
•	Advance the professionalism of
career federal executives.
® Advocate the interest of career
federal executives, especially mem-
bers of the SEA.
•	Enhance public recognition of the
contributions of federal career ex-
Itoves.
Me two-year-old association
rked actively in support of legisla-
tion lifting the salary cap for gov-
ernment employees in 1981 and 1982
and making federal employees eligible
for IRAs. SEA is working now to raise
reimbursement for relocation costs.
The organization regularly sponsors
luncheons, seminars and courses to
keep government executives informed
of matters that affect their careers and
to further the development of man-
agement expertise.
SEA representatives taking part in
Performance Appraisals
For Fiscal Year 1983
Should Be Under Way
EPA employees and managers should
have completed performance agree-
ments for FY 1984 and performance
appraisals for FY 1983 should now be
under way.
Performance agreements for the new
fiscal year were to be completed and
signed by October 1. Agreements
should spell out the specific accom-
plishments and level of achievement
expected during the course of the
year. Agreements covering supervisors
and managers must include elements
and standards that deal with man-
agement effectiveness. The form to
use for the performance agreement is
the meeting along with Strombotni in-
cluded David Burckman, SEA pre-
sident; jack Niles, SEA membership
chairperson; Mary Louise Uhlig, of
OPTS, EPA representative on SEA's
Board of Directors; Marian Mlay, OW,
membership chairperson for EPA, and
Ed Johnson, OPTS, and Jim Elder,
OW, who serve on the EPA mem-
bership committee.
EPA 3115-24 (revised 8/83), available
through the supply system. Please
contact your personnel office if you
want more detailed information on
preparing performance agreements.
Performance appraisals for SES,
Merit Pay, and GS employees covered
by the Performance Management Sys-
tem are to be completed during Octo-
ber. Employees begin the process by
completing assessments of their own
performance on their FY 1983 per-
formance standards. This is also an
opportunity to provide information
documenting performance highlights.
The next step is the appraisal inter-
view, when the employee and super-
visor meet to discuss the level of
achievement on each performance
standard and the strengths and weak-
nesses of the individual employee.

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Reagan Announces
Nominees for Four
Top Posts at EPA
President Reagan's nominees to fill
four more top level positions at EPA
have been announced by the White
House.
The designated appointees are:
•	Jack E. Ravan, a former EPA Re-
gional Administrator, to be Assistant
Administrator for Water.
•	A. James Barnes to be Assistant Ad-
ministrator (General Counsel). Barnes
is the first general counsel at EPA to
hold Assistant Administrator rank.
Cooper
•	Josephine S. Cooper to be Assistant
Administrator for External Affairs, a
new position created under legislation
enacted in August.
•	John C. Martin to be Inspector
General.
Ms. Cooper and Barnes were con-
firmed by the Senate October 7. Ac-
tion on the other two nominations
was expected shortly.
Ravan headed EPA's Region 4,
covering the southeastern states, from
1971 to 1977. He was director of busi-
ness development for Jordan, Jones &
Goulding in Atlanta from 1977 to
1980, director of the Alabama De-
partment of Energy from 1980 to 1982
and, since 1982, has been director of
Project Development, for the Clean
Water Group, Wheelabrator-Frye, in
Atlanta.
Ravan, 46, is a native of Easley, S.C.
He graduated from the U.S. Military
Academy in 1959.
Barnes was General Counsel at the
Department of Agriculture until
coming to EPA as acting General
Counsel following the confirmation of
William D. Ruckelshaus as EPA Ad-
ministrator. He was an assistant to
Ruckelshaus during the Administra-
tor's first tour as head of EPA from
1970 to 1973 and later served at the
Department of Justice. From 1973 to
1981, Barnes was a partner in the
Washington law firm of Beveridge,
Fairbanks & Diamond.
Barnes, 41, graduated from Michi-
gan State University (B.A., 1964) and
Harvard Law School (J.D., 1967).
As Assistant Administrator for Ex-
ternal Affairs, Ms. Cooper will be di-
recting four staff offices: Federal Ac-
tivities, International Activities,
Legislation, and Public Affairs. She
has been on the staff of Senate Major-
ity Leader Howard Baker and the Sen-
ate Environmental and Public Works
Committee since 1981.
Ms. Cooper, 38, started her career
with EPA's Office of Research and De-
velopment at Research Triangle Park,
N. C., in 1971. She was an American
Political Science Association Con-
gressional Fellow in 1979-80, and a
special assistant to EPA's Assistant
Administrator for Research and De-
velopment in 1980-81.
Ms. Cooper received a B.A. degree
from Meredith College in 1967 and a
Master of Science degree from Duke
University in 1977.
Martin, designee for Inspector
General at EPA, has been Assistant
spector General at the Department™
Housing and Urban Development
since 1981. He was with the FBI from
1971 to 1981 after working earlier in
municipal administration in Rock-
ville, Md., and Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Martin, 38, graduated from King's
College in Wilkes-Barre (B.A.. 1967)
and the University of Maryland (M.A.,
1970).
Hirsch, Steelman, Ward
Appointed to Key Posts
In New External Affairs Unit
Three key appointments in the newly
created Office of External Affairs have
been announced by EPA Administra-
tor William D. Ruckelshaus.
The new appointees are:
•	Allan Hirsch, deputy director of the
International Institute for Applied
Systems in Vienna, Austria, for the
past year, who is the new director of
Federal Activities.
•	Deborah L. Steelman, who was leg-
islative director for Sen. John Hei«|
(R-PA), director of Intergovernmei®
Liaison.
•	Gregg Ward, for the past six years
director of governmental affairs for the
Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning
Contractors National Association, di-
rector of Congressional Liaison.
Lee M. Thomas (right), Assistant Administrator for Solid Waste and Emergency Re-
sponse, receives super-size replica of $5,000 check from Administrator William D.
Ruckelshaus during ceremony honoring Thomas and four acting Assistant Administ^
tors for what Ruckelshaus described as their "extraordinary contribution...symbolic®
the efforts of so many at EPA" in recent months. Also receiving $5,000 checks, alorflM
with plaques, were Acting AA's Rebecca Hanmer, Office of Water (who was in Europ?
at the time of the ceremony); Don R. Clay, Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances;
Charles L. Elkins, Office of Air, Noise and Radiation; and Courtney Riordan, Office of
Research and Development.
Barnes
Martin

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