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VOLUME 1	NUMBER 20	 9/19/84
This Volunteer Really Makes a Difference
Thanks to Susan Harkin,
Region 8, for submitting the
information in this story.
CeCe Forget might not
have a commonly heard
name, but that is fitting, for
this woman has long dis-
played an uncommon con-
cern for dis-advantaged
people and a rare willing-
ness to put her efforts
where her heart is.
A Public Participation
Coordinator for Region 8,
CeCe (short for Cecelia)
Forget devotes most of her
own time to the goal of self-
determination for people
who have less than an
equal voice in society. In
recognition of some of her
recent work, Forget was
presented with the "Chair-
person of the Year Award"
at this year's convention of
the Association of Retarded
Citizens.
After receiving a degree
in sociology from the Uni-
versity of Windsor, her de-
sire to help others led her
to serve with VISTA
(Volunteers in Service to
America). When she arrived
in Denver in 1972, Forget
joined the staff of the Den-
ver Association for Re-
tarded Citizens (DARC). In
1976 she was selected as
"Outstanding Young
Woman in America." She
now serves on the Board of
DARC and the Board of the
Colorado Association of Re-
tarded Citizens (CARC).
She organized and chairs
the Nursing Home Action
Committee of CARC (for
which she received the
chairpersonship award).
This committee works to
create opportunities for de-
velopmentally disabled peo-
ple in nursing homes.
Forget points to Mickey
Rooney's inspiring perform-
ance in the television pro-
duction "Bill" as demon-
strating the struggles of
mentally retarded persons
to take their place in soci-
ety as self-sufficient adults.
"Eighty-five percent of men-
tally retarded persons such
as Bill," she says, "can live
free of institutions with the
aid of community-based
support systems."
She advocates that dis-
abled persons are human
beings first, with the same
feelings and needs shared
The new Administrator of
Region 2 is Christopher J.
Daggett.
Daggett comes to EPA
from the Cabinet of Gov-
ernor Thomas Kean of New
Jersey. Administrator Bill
Ruckelshaus said he was
"delighted to have someone
from the Governors staff
take charge of one of our
key regional operations,"
because "under Governor
Kean's leadership, New
Jersey has been in the fore-
front nationally in concern
for the environment and in
carrying out an aggressive
program to clean up
hazardous waste sites."
Previously, Daggett has
served as Deputy Chief of
Staff to the Governor, and
by all of us. Our ex-
pectations for disabled per-
sons should be as realistic
and natural as possible, she
believes, without undue
sympathy, pity, or over-
protection. "They have the
same rights as other
Americans—the right to
dignity and the right to take
risks."
EPA surely can point
with pride at employees
such as CeCe Forget who
well understand the an-
swers to the ancient adage:
"If not me, who? If not
now, when?" ~
as Vice President of Public
Affairs Consultants of
Springfield, N.J.
Daggett, 34, holds a de-
gree of Doctor of Education
from the University of
Massachusetts, and a B.A.
degree from the University
of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. ~
Christopher Daggett
CeCe Forget with her Chairperson of the Year Award
Daggett Assumes
Region 2 Command

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People
Died: Syed Nooruddin, 49, Region 4, on May 4 . . . Mar-
tin Greif, 56, Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances, on
August 8 . . . Tim Matzke, 40, Office of Policy, Planning
and Evaluation, on August 24.
Special Act Awards presented to: Edna Beasley, Jack-
son Hubbard, Lucille Hurst and Virginia Maphet, Cincin-
nati . . . Richard Green, Russell Wright, Ralph Jennings,
Benjamin Woods, Carlton Layne, Drunell Williams, Mil-
ton Henderson and Tryphenia Jones, Region 4 . . . Patricia
Scoville and Julie Tankersley, Pesticides and Toxic Sub-
stances". . . Lucille Roth, External Affairs . . . Joel
Schwartz, .Hugh Pitcher, RaAnana Levin, Bert Ostro and
George Sugiyama, Policy, Planning and Evaluation . . .
Richard Ackerman and Steven Hoover, Air and Radiation
. . . Martha Dickerson, Office of General Counsel . . .
Michael Quigley, Water.
Continued Superior Performance Awards go to: William
Klettner, Richard Eaton, David Lorentz and Lora Kociban,
Wheeling Field . . . Russell Keeison, Jeffrey Davidson,
George Semenuik, Jane Talarico, Lois Rossi, Arvella
Farmer, Doris Jackson, JoAnne Dizikes, Glenda Farmer
and Homer Toma, Pesticides and Toxic Substances . . .
Sheila Kelly, Administration and Resources Management
. . . Geraldine Colfer and Elaine Rice, Office of the Ad-
ministrator . . . Priscilla Smith and Clara Mickles, Ex-
ternal Affairs . . . Elenora Karicher, Research and Develop-
ment . . . Keith Hinman and Wendy Green, Policy, Plan-
ning and Evaluation.
Quality Step Increases awarded to: Suzanne Olive and
Vene Glascoe, Office of the Administrator . . . Patricia
Minami, Policy, Planning and Evaluation . . . Marion
Thompson, Water . . . Betty Crompton, Delores Williams,
Martha DeLaney, Walter Waldrop, Grace Kaiser, Robert
Hitch, Denise Devoe, Richard Hefter, Patrick Miller,
Pamela Pinder, Ram Rakshpal and Chris Tirpak, Pesti-
cides and Toxic Substances . . . Marlene Carriker and Be-
verly Hemsley, Administration and Resources Man-
agement. ~
Letters
This letters column is intended to provide a means for Agency employees
to communicate to other employees and/or the Agency administration
whatever messages of criticism, praise, opinion, or explanation they so de-
sire. Brevity and constructive suggestions are encouraged; obscenity and
rudeness are disallowed Letters mil be published as space alioivs and may
be edited for clarity and conciseness No attempt is made by the editor to
confirm any data presented by correspondents and the opinions expressed
should not be taken to represent Agency positions All letters must be
signed and accompanied by submitter's telephone number.
Dear Editor:
I was interested to read in the July 20, 1984, issue of
The EPA Times about EPA employees bicycling to work. I
was particularly impressed with the employee who "bikes
7 miles one way and runs the other all year through."
I'm sure other employees would be interested in how
this feat is accomplished. I have several ideas about how it
is done. First, the person rides to work and runs home
carrying the bike on his or her back. Second, the person
uses disposable bicycles which can be trashed after the
ride to work; of course the cost of approximately 250 such
bicycles a year may be prohibitive. Third, the person sells
the bicycle to c'hers at work every day, thereby avoiding
the need to ride it home each day. Fourth, the person rides
in/runs home one day, then runs in/rides home the next
day.
I hope you can enlighten us in the next issue.
James Nelson,
Pesticides and
Toxic Substances
Have you ever considered applying your creativity to
hazardous waste disposal? Certainly a few good "options"
are needed there. The biker/runner, of course, follows your
fourth conjecture.
Dear Editor:
It was like being on the cover of the Rolling Stone and
the authors of "FEDS" appreciate very much the fine
coverage you gave us in the EPA Times.
One EPA person not mentioned, but very instrumental
in getting us up and going was Walt Kovalick of the Su-
perfund program. Walt's contacts in community theater
here in Washington gave us an outstanding director and
some first rate cast members.
Thanks to all the EPA "family."
Peyton Davis
and Frank Corrado
Dear Editor:
Concerning your article "The Bureaucracy as Theater"
in the 8 August 84 issue. I am nonplused. Does this mean:
(a) I should view a good portion of my job as a joke, (b)
that study in the dramatics is eligible for training as being
job related, or (c) I have latent on-the-job Thespian quali-
ties requiring membership in the local Actor's Guild?
Jocularly,
(from a first row balcony seat)
Dick Goehlert
Region 1
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information for and about EPA employees. Readers are encouraged to
submit news of themselves and of fellow employees, letters of opinion,
questions, comments, and suggestions to. Miles Allen, Editor, The EPA
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Agency Activities
New report estimates the cost of meeting federal air and
water pollution control standards over the 10 years from
1981 to 1990 at $526 billion. Costs, such as capital invest-
ent in pollution control equipment, and operation and
aintenance equipment, are based solely on compliance
with federal regulatory standards.
The Agency's 3983 Motor Vehicle Tampering Survey
shows that fuel switching and tampering with emission
control devices is continuing at a high rate Of the 197S-
1983 model automobiles sampled, 26 percent had been
tampered with and 14 percent were subject to fuel switch-
ing.
Formation of a public/private task force to analyze acid
rain in the moutain states announced by Region 8. The
Western Atmospheric Deposition Task Force is composed
of representatives from federal and state agencies and in-
dustrial and environmental organizations.
Cancellation of all non-wood preservative uses of the
pesticide creosote proposed due to determination that con-
tinued use may cause unreasonable risk to public health.
Affected uses account for two percent of creosote's pesti-
cide use.
New policy adopted to accelerate permit reviews of
hazardous waste disposal facilities most likely to threaten
groundwater and air.
Submission of more'extensive and specific information
on pesticide products now required of manufacturers
under new regulations.

Two-year national study initiated to investigate sites that
might be contaminated with low levels of dioxin. EPA will
sample fish from more than 400 waterways and collect soil
samples from 500 urban and rural locations to determine
"background" levels of dioxin in the general environment.
Polycyclic organic matter will not be regulated as a
class of compounds under the Clean Air Act. The Agency
had not collected enough information to support regula-
tion as of a court mandated decision date. Such emissions
have been reduced by regulation of other air pollutants.
Region 5 approves the State of Michigan's request to
manage its own dredge and fill program, making it the
first state with such regulatory authority. ~
Around EPA	
Correction: In a previous issue the area code for the
Public Information Center was mistakenly given as 212.
The correct telephone number to call for information about
EPA publications is 202-829-3535. The library in Water-
side Mall has copies of pamphlets for headquarters em-
ployees and visitors.
Environmental Platforms: According to The Washington
Post, the Republican Party adopted a 1984 platform which
does not mention EPA, but does say: "We will be respon-
sible to future generations, but at the same time, we must
remember that quality of life means more than protection
and preservation. [It] . . . means development as much as
it does protection." The Democratic platform states: "The
Environmental Protection Agency should receive a budget
that exceeds in real dollars the agency's purchasing power
when President Reagan took office."
SPF.FC.HCR AFT. an eight-session program tn improve
verbal communication skills is being offered once again by
the headquarters Toastmasters club. The sessions will be
held on Tuesdays from Noon to 1 p.m. beginning on Octo-
ber 2. For details call Norma Hughes (755-2927) or Her-
man Baucom (382-7021].
Glen Sjoblom has been selected to oversee international
activities in Air and Radiation. Sheldon Myers will re-
place Sjoblom as head of the Office of Radiation Pro
grams.
FY 1984 Blood Drives at EPA were tremendously suc-
cessful according to Red Cross Statistics. Headquarters em-
ployees donated 699 pints, far exceeding the goal of 550
pints.
The Ontario Ministry of the Environment will hold
Technology Transfer Conference number 5 on November
27 and 28 in Toronto. For details call M. Moselhy at 416-
965-5788.
Persons wishing to submit papers for the Second Annual
U.S. -Dutch International Symposium on Aerosols, to be
held next May in Virginia, should contact Dr. Si Duk Lee,
Research Triangle Park (MD-52).
EPA managers are oncouraged to take advantage of the
Cooperative Education Program to hire college students
through formal agreement with their schools. The program
allows for non-competitive conversion to a permanent
appointment. For more information contact Tom Wyvill at
382-3347. ~
/EPA Worker Safety
In 1983. the Agency lost the equivalent of R 4 staff year?
due to job related injuries or illnesses Compared to the
federal agency average, we have done well—but we can
do better From 1982 to 1983.
V	The rate of incidences per 100 employees
involving lost time
DROPPED from 0.63 to 0.58
(The federal agency average rate is 2.8)
V	But the severity—measured in lost work
days—
INCREASED from 14.5 to 22.3
(The federal average was 14.6)
^ The cost of Workers Compensation per
employee
INCREASED from $53 to $85
(The federal average is $280)
Don't Be A Statistic—Work Safely
Source EPA Occupational Health and Safety Staff

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nvironmental News
"A majority of Americans profess to be more concerned
about the environment than they were in the past and say
they are willing to pay for environmental improvements,
according to a Media General-Associated Press poll . . .
only one in five said they consider environmental issues
'very important' in the 1984 presidential campaign."—AP
8-28.
"Glenwood Springs, Colo.—A district judge Wednesday
dismissed a lawsuit seeking damages on behalf of mos-
quitos killed by a city spraying program, but the plaintiff
claimed a moral victory. District Judge J.E. DeVilbiss ruled
that plaintiff Paul Crawford has no standing in the case,
had shown no personal harm and that arguments by Craw-
ford, a carpenter and a poet, were 'essentially cosmic."'—
UP I, 8-29.
"Concern for potential damage to thousands of acres of
range land in southern New Mexico from a vast military
exercise prompted authorities to order an archaeological
survey today . . . Because the exercise will occur during
the lambing season for the Desert Bighorn sheep and the
nesting season for Peregrine falcons, aircraft noise could
be a problem, officials said."—UP I, 8-24.
"In addition to the health problems fat people already
face, the obese may now have to worry about extra levels
of toxic chemicals being stored in their bodies, according
to Dr. George Blackburn, a nutrition expert at Harvard
Medical School . . . More fat means people can store larg-
er amounts of toxic chemicals in their bodies . . . Black-
burn warns against crash diets, which can suddenly re-
lease large amounts of the toxic chemicals into the blood-
stream as fat is burned off."—The Boston Globe, 8-27.
". . . J. Lincoln Pearson, pesticide coordinator at the Uni-
versity of Rhode Island . . . contends that the persons most
likely to misuse pesticides are home gardeners because
they tend to apply them liberally and without the training
farmers must receive. As a result, Pearson said, he would
rather eat a vegetable that is commercially grown than
one cultivated by a neighbor. There's more Diazinon used
to control grubs in the lawn by homeowners than used by
the whole agricultural industry in the state,' he said."—
The Providence Sunday Journal, 8-19.
"Health experts were called in to help regional water
officials fight a baffling and potentially hazardous infec-
tion of chlorine-resistent bacteria in the water supply of
376,000 people in and around New Haven."—The New
York Times, 8-29.
"Varanasi, India—Devout Hindus believe that in this
most holy of Indian cities, the Ganges River performs
miracles . . . Each day, 100,000 pilgrims pour into Var-
anasi ... At sunrise, many of them bathe in the water and
some sip it . . .The pilgrims are untroubled by the human
corpses that occasionally float past or by the bodies of
dead cows, or by the fetid odors rising from the pea-soup-
like river, a foulness caused by as much as 10 million gal-
lons of raw sewage pouring into the water each day along
the three miles of the riverfront."—Newsday, 8-15.
"West Chicago Mayor Eugene Rennels on Tuesday de-
scribed a federal plan to study radioactive material in the
suburb as 'totally improper, illegal and unwarranted' and
threatened to arrest EPA representatives as trespassers.
'Any effort on their part to initiate the study will be
viewed by the city as interference with the cleanup we are
already conducting,' Rennels said."—Chicago Tribune, 8-8.
"If the EPA prevails, leaded gasoline may soon go the
way of rumble seats, running boards and fins. But at the
Ethyl Corp., the nation's leading producer of lead addi-
tives for gasoline, executives seem ready for that change. .
while Ethyl will produce more that $250 million in lead
additives this year, executives . . . have been steadily guid-
ing the company into other, less politically charged
businesses."—The Times-Picayune, 8-19.
"The soft crunching sound of sheep grazing is music to
David M. Kelly's ears. 'That's the sound of four-legged
herbicide', says Kelly, a U.S. Bureau of Land Management
range conservationist. The sheep are being used to remove
vegetation from around young trees in the mixed pine for-
ests of Southern Oregon. The ground plants sap precious
moisture form the seedlings."—The Oregonian, 8-6.
"Buffalo—A judge here has ruled that a local company
illegally dismissed a pregnant woman who refused to
work with toxic chemicals unless given information about
them. The ruling . . . marks the first time a company has
been cited for violating a 4-year-old state law guaranteeing
workers the right to know about the toxic substances they
handle."—The New York Times, 8-19.
"New York Gov. Mario M. Cuomo signed the first bill in
the nation specifically designed to curb acid rain last
week. While the language is vague, the bill requires in-
dustries throughout the state that produce sulfur emissions
to reduce the current amount 12 percent by 1988 and 30
percent by 1991."—Engineering News and Record, 8-23. ~
Available Information	
Copies of the reports and pamphlets listed below are
available from EPA's Small Business Ombudsman, Marc
Jones, in the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business
Utilization. Jones' new telephone number is 703-557-7015.
Environmental Regulations and Small Businesses: An
Overview of issues Concerning the Economic Impact of
EPA Regulations on Small Business (Includes evaluation
of economic impact analysis methods, survey of com-
pliance issues, and data bases for future regulatory de-
velopment.)
An Estimate of Small Business Financing Needs to Com-
ply With EPA Regulations (There are 37 forthcoming
regulations which will significantly impact small busi-
nesses.)
Small Business Assistance at EPA, April 1982. (Brochure
describes the duties of the Small Business Ombudsman.)
Responding to Small Business Environmental Issues,
March 1984. (Pamphlet discusses the nature of small
business regulatory problems and what the Agency is
doing about them.)
Assistance Programs for Pollution Control Financing, May
1984. (Folder gives federal, state, and local sources of
financing.)
Impact of Hazardous Waste Regulations on Small Busi-
nesses, February 1984. (Paper presented at Symposium
on Hazardous Waste Control at Georgia Tech.)
Regulatory Education Program for Small Quantity
Hazardous Waste Generators in the United States, June
1984. (Speech text describes preliminary plans for an
education program.) ~
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