NEWS FOR AND ABOUT EPA EMPLOYEES INSIDE: ~ CFC Results ~ Superball VOLUME 3 NUMBER 4 JANUARY 1986 EPA Honors Outstanding Employees On December 5, 1985, EPA held its 15th anniversary celebration together with its annual awards assembly. At the assembly, Adminis- trator Lee Thomas spoke of his pride in the personal achievements of those hon- ored. He said, "Our creative and committed employees, like those we honor today, have worked very hard to im- prove the quality of life of all Americans. We can be proud of our accomplishments. In one sense, we all share in to- day's awards." Walter M. Sanders III, Associate Director for Water Quality Research, ORD's En- vironmental Research Labora- tory in Athens, GA, received EPA's Distinguished Career Award "in recogni- tion of a distinguished feder- al career as a research leader and spokesman for quantita- tively predictive approaches to water quality manage- ment." The Distinguished Career Award was also awarded to William C. Blackman, Jr., Deputy Director of the National Enforcement In- vestigations Center in Den- ver, CO, "in recognition of an outstanding career in plan- ning and managing enforce- ment programs which have improved environmental quality." Gold Medals for ex- ceptional service went to: Todd A. Cayer, Chief, Munic- ipal Facilities Branch, Water Division, Region 5, "for out- standing personal leadership in the administration of the federal construction grants Joan L. Price, Secretary from Athens, Ga., receives Administrator's Award for Excellence from Administrator Lee M. Thomas. program" .. . Denise M. Keehner, Chief, Regulatory Section, Office of Toxic Sub- stances at Headquarters, for "outstanding and innovative performance in developing and implementing EPA's PCB regulatory program under TSCA" . . . Dixon E. McClary, Special Agent-In-Charge, National Enforcement In- vestigations Center, Region 10, for "excellence in in- vestigating criminal viola- tions of environmental laws and effectively integrating criminal enforcement with Regional Office civil enforce- ment programs" .. . Lee A. Mulkey, an agricultural engi- neer with the Office of Re- search and Development in Athens, GA, "in recognition of innovative technical leadership in the develop- ment of the Land Disposal Banning Rule." Five groups of employees also received Gold Medals: the EDB Destruction Team, Office of Research and De- velopment and the Office of Pesticides and Toxic Sub- stances, Headquarters— Charles ). Rogers, Alfred Kornel, and Raymond F. Krueger—"for development and implementation of an in- novative and cost-effective process for destruction of Ethylene Dibromide" . . . the Asbestos Hazard Abatement Assistance Implementation Team, Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances and the Office of Administration and Resources Management, Headquarters—Steven E. Young, Bryan O. Griffith, Sharon H. Hagan, Lawrence E. Culleen, Michael M. Stahl, Susan F. Vogt and Thomas Hadd—"for effective and time- ly distribution of $45 million in loan and grant funds to schools for abatement of asbestos hazards" ... the Bloomington, Indiana CERC- LA Enforcement Team, Office of Solid Waste and Emergen- cy Response, Region 5— Barbara A. Magel, Timothy B. O'Mara and J. Howard Beard, III—"in recognition of outstanding contributions to the mission of EPA through dedicated and superlative handling of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation litigation and settlement" ... the Em- ployee Benefit Statement Project Team, Office of Ad- ministration and Resources Management at Headquarters—Sandra W. Martin, Charles E. McLane, continued on page 3 ------- People Around EPA Retiree: George Beusch, 25 years, Pesticides and Toxic Substances. The Administrator's Award for Outstanding Regional Program Achievements was presented to Region 2, and accepted by Herbert Barrack; for Outstanding Individual Achievement to Jerry Dodson, Durham, and to Norman White, Cincinnati. Special Act Awards were presented to Charles Kent, Office of the Administrator . . . David Good, Seung Ho Park, Vicki Soltis, and Clifford Tyree, Ann Arbor. Sustained Superior Performance Awards presented to: Brenda Bray, Patricia Richardson, Melody Banks, and Michael Binder, Office of the Inspector General . . . Sylvia Anderson, Iantha Carley, Marilyn Johnson, Patricia Lyttle, Vickie Thomas, and Paul Murray, Policy, Planning and Evaluation . . . William Repsher, Enforcement and Compliance Monitoring . . . Richard Laska, Mark Stevens, Paul Horwitz, Jan Lott Shaw, Frank Rusincovitch, William Sipple, Augusta Wills, Roger Rihm, Thomas Dickerson, Barbara Basseuner, Christopher Hoff, Marilyn Henderson, Clara Mickles, Lorraine Williams, Charles Stark, Myrtle Lashley, Susan Mulvaney, Patricia Gaskins, Willie Scales, Diann Frantz, Mary Hinton, Barbara Brooks, Judy Rohrer, Constance Thompkins, and Nell Brill, External Affairs . . . Renee Young, Neal Nelson, Marianne Bender, Christopher Nelson, and Doreen Hill, Air and Radiation. Quality Step Increases awarded to: Michael Mardis and Ann Gile, Air and Radiation . . . Cheryl Murray, Enforcement and Compliance Monitoring . . . Ra'anana Levin and Sharon Van Meter, Policy, Planning and Evaluation . . . Janet Peck and Mary Goldring, Pesticides and Toxic Substances . . . Linda Strachan, Lawrence Stirling, and Rita Calvan, External Affairs. ~ 1 The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) will begin publication of The Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy, a quarterly journal designed to explore policy issues in energy, natural resources, and economic development Since the TVA was established to be, in part, a laboratof the nation and a source of innovative ideas, the Forum help TVA fulfill that responsibility. Articles are needed that apply scientific and scholarly inquiry to questions of public policy. Submissions and inquiries should be directed to: Alanson Van Fleet or Daniel Schaffer, The Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy, Tennessee Valley Authority, 400 Summit Hill Drive, E3C85, Knoxville, TN 37920. Telephone: 615-632-8019. Available Information Selections from recent acquisitions by the EPA Library which may be of general interest. The State of the Environment, 1985. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. TD171.S73. 1985. Environmental Health Services: A Survey of Administrative and Legal Provisions. By Robert B. Dean. RA422.5 ,P8. No. 19. 1983. Environment 1986: Report of the Post-Environment Forum Working Party. State Services Commission. HC68 .E57. 1985. Can You Trust Your Environmental Auditing Program? Organizational Issues in Establishing and Improving Environmental Auditing Programs. By Alfred A.Marcus and Mark V. Nadel. EPAX 8504-0012. 1983. First Annua) Progress Report under the Chesapeake Agreement. By the Chesapeake Executive Council. Dece^ 1985. ~ 1 rcr rTTircrniipM nn rcr rxn rcr rxn rcr nil rcr mi rcr [PC 111 |CfC| 11 |CfC| 111CFC1111 CPC| 111 CfC|| 11 CfCi 111CPC We're Over the Top! Thanks to you, the total collected for the Combined Federal Campaign at EPA is $274,755. This is 110 percent of the Agency's goal. Congratulations! The winners of the "Peppy Pumpkin" Contest are: 1st prize ($50.00 savings bond) Elaine Williams—Administration and Resources Management; 2nd Prize (Rolls Royce Radio) Alan Bogus—Office of the Inspector General; 3rd Prize (EPA T-Shirt) Joanne Rodman—Pesticides and Toxic Substances; 4th Prize (EPA Coffee Mug) Richard Blackman—Pesticides and Toxic Substances. The order of the prizes was determined by random selection. All four winners guessed the exact weight: 26 lbs. 10 oz. We gave a lot of people a chance. Pcr rm rcr rvii itti rcr riTi ... ivti r[r tTti rcr riti rcr CfC 111«CPC | n I CFC| 11 |CfC|| 11 CPC 1111 CPC 111 |CFC| 111 CPC The EPA Times is published monthly to provide news and 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: Marilyn Rogers, EDITOR. The EPA Times, Office of Public Affairs (A-107). Telephone 382-4355. Inform selected for publication will be edited as necessary in keeping with space available. The second place team,Dianne Byrne, Fred Renner, Bob RosensteeJ, Debbie Stackhouse, and Mike Trutna, was 8 strokes under par. On October 14, 1985, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards held its 6th annual super ball tournament at Duke University golf course. The winning team (from left to right), Gil Wood, John Crenshaw, Bill Neuffer, Ted Creekmore, and Gene Smith, shot a new tournament record of 61 (11 under par). ------- Conferences, Etc. The Air Pollution Control Association will hold its Third Symposium on Integrated Environmental Controls for Fossil-Fuel Power Plants on February 3-6, 1986 in Pittsburgh, ^^The conference will be co-sonsored by the American ¦ety of Mechanical Engineers and the Electric Power ^cearch Institute. For more information, contact the Air Pollution Control Association, P.O. Box 2861, Pittsburgh, PA 15230. Telephone: 412-232-3444. The Air Pollution Control Association will also hold a specialty conference on February 24-27, 1986 titled Indoor Radon. For more information, contact the Air Pollution Control Association at the address above. The American Institute of Chemical Engineers will hold a Loss Prevention Symposium at the AICHE National Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, on April 6-10, 1986. More than 30 speakers, including several from other countries, willl present papers at the sessions. For more information, contact Marie Stewart, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 345 E. 47th St., New York, NY 10017. Telephone 212-705-7324. The Southern Waste Information Exchange will sponsor the Third National Conference on Waste Exchange in Phoenix, Arizona, March 4-6, 1986. The Conference will provide an opportunity to share information and ideas about the latest developments in industrial waste recycling and resuse. For more information, contact Pat Chase, ASU Center for Environmental Studies, Krause Hall, Tempe, AZ 85287 or call: 602-965-1850. In Memoriam Linda Marie Billings Linda Marie Billings, 45, was fatally stabbed November 29 as she was leaving her office in Crystal City. She was the director of the Farm Safety Program in the Office of Pesticide Programs at EPA. A 16-year-old male was arrested shortly after the attack on Billings and has been charged as a juvenile with capital murder and robbery. Arlington County prosecutors are seeking to have him tried as an adult. Billings died at the National Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Hospital. Billings lived in the Cabin John section of Bethesda. She grew up in the San Francisco area and, after graduating from the University of California at Berkeley, she took graduate courses at San Francisco State College. In 1968, she went to work for the Sierra Club in California, and in 1971 she transferred to its Washington office as a lobbyist. Billings joined EPA in 1978. Most of her work here dealt with toxic substances. As director of the Farm Safety Program her concerns included the welfare of farm laborers. She was a member of the Cabin John Citizens Association, the Sierra Club, and the board of directors of the Urban Environmental Conference. Survivors include her mother, Virginia Etchieson of Richmond, Calif.; one brother, Charles Billings, also of Richmond, and two sisters, Charlene Barbacci of Stockholm and Laurie Wooldridge of San Bruno, Calif. ~ Outstanding Employees continued from front page Wayne A. Blackard Geneva S. Douglas Robert N. Snelling David T. Tingey Walter M. Sanders III Gerald F. Yetter, Amy S. Kearns and Christopher G. Lewis—"in recognition of outstanding work in develop- ing and publishing EPA's Employee Benefit State- ments" . . . the National Air Toxics Strategy Croup, Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation, Office of Air and Radiation, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Re- sponse, Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances, Office of General Counsel at Headquarters—Thomas G. In- gersoll, Thomas E. Kelly, John R. O'Connor, Bernard J. Steigerwald, James Makris, Debra Dobkowski, Louise P. Wise, and William V. Garetz—"in recognition of exceptional service to EPA and the nation by forging a comprehensive national strat- egy to protect the public from air-toxic releases." Recipients of Silver Medals for superior service: Henry Gluckstern Attorney-Advisor, Office of Regional Counsel, Region 2 . . . John T. Marlar, Chief, Facilities Performance Branch, Water Management Division, Region 4 . . . John A. Edwardson, Chief, Superfund/RCRA Branch, Budget Division, Office of Administration and Re- sources Management . . . Richard J. Kinch, Chemical Engineer, Office of Water . . . Lucille Van Ommering, En- Continued on back ------- Outstanding Employees from page three William C. Blackman, Jr. Denise M. Keehner Dixon E. McClary Henry Gluckstern IB 1 John T. Marlar ?i John A. Edwardson Richard J. Kinch Lee A. Mulkey Lucille Van Ommering vironmental Protection Spe- cialist, Air Management Divi- sion, Region 9. Group recipients of Silver Medals: the Developmental Biology Division,—Neil Cher- noff and Robert J. Kavlock— Research Triangle Park . . , the Acute Hazards List Team — George Wirth, Nilesh Patel, Debra Dobkowski and Craig Matthiessen—Pesticides and Toxic Substances . . . the Region 1 301 (h) Task Force—Ronald Manfredonia, William Brunge, Colene Gaston, Dorothy Allen, Barry Burgan and Linda Connolly—Narragansett . . . the U.S./Mexico Environmen- tal Quality Team—Douglas Holy, James Thompson, James Yarbrough, Frank Covington, David Howekamp and Richard Reavis, Region 6 and Region 9 . . . the Ther- mal Destruction Branch—E. Timothy Oppelt, Robert A. , Olexsey, Richard A. Carner, Donald A. Oberacker, Robert E. Mourninghan and Larry D. Johnson—Cincinnati and Research Triangle Park . . . the Toxic Air Pollutant Deci- sion Management Team— David R. Patrick, Robert M. Schell, Robert G. Kellam, Kent Berry, Lester D. Grant, Charles M. Ris and Daniel Byrd III—Air and Radiation, ORD, and the Science Advi- sory Board . . . the Region 7 Mobile Incinerator Team- Ralph H. Hazel, Joseph Gal- braith, Robert Kleopfer, Gary Kepko, Ronald Ritter, Frank Freestone and Rowena Michaels—Region 7 and Edi- son . . . the MIC Task Group—Greene A. Jones, Robert G. Kramer, Leslie B. Evans, Richard A. Horner, Joseph P. Lafornara, Peter W. Schaul and Michael Zickler—Region 3, Air and Radiation, and Solid Waste and Emergency Response. Recipients of the Adminis- trator's Award for Excellence "for exceptional contribution to the accomplishment of the EPA mission": Judy F. Car- mickle, secretary, Ann Arbor .. . Alice H. Crosby, secre- tary, Region 4 . . . Dorothy R. Crouse, secretary, Region 8 . . . Debora Norwood, En- vironmental Protection Assis- tant, Region 8 . . . Ernes! Dobbins, Environmental tection Assistant, Pestici"? and Toxic Substances . . . Mary Goldring, Clerk-Typist, Pesticides and Toxic Sub- stances . . . Guillermina Gon- zales, Microfilm Equipment Operator, Region 6. . Duane E. Graham, Clerk, Enforce- ment and Compliance Monitoring . . . Susan L. Rit- ta, Enforcement and Com- pliance Monitoring, Denver . . . Kathleen C. Greenwood, secretary, Solid Waste and Emergency Response . . . Ann Johnson, secretary, Research and Development . . . Joan L. Price, secretary, Athens . . . Diane E. Kanetsky, secretary, Region 3 . . . Billie I. Lee, sec- retary, Region 10 . . . Diane C. Ruthruff, Training In- structor, Region 10 . . . Paul Lee, Support Services Spe- cialist, Region 5 . . . Maria J. Littlefield, secretary, Cincin- nati . . . Rebecca A. Vidi, retary, Administration a]( Resources Management Laura F. Malone, secretary Region 1 . . . Sonia Ruiz, Legal Technician, Office of the General Counsel . . . M. C. Toliver, Support Services Specialist, Region 9. The Trudy A. Speciner Award for "outstanding con- tribution by a non- supervisory professional em- ployee" was presented to: Greg V. Arthur, environmen- tal engineer, Region 9. Public Health Service Meritorious Service Medals were received by; Wayne A. Blackard, Chief, New Source Section, Air Management Di- vision, Region 9 . . . Geneva S. Douglas, Program Op- erations Manager, Nuclear Radiation Assessment Divi- sion, Environmental Monitor- ing Systems Laboratory, Las Vegas . . . Robert N. Snelling, Chief, Aquatic Subsurface Monitoring Branch, Environ- mental Monitoring Syster Laboratory, Las Vegas David T. Tingey, Plant Pi siologist, Environmental Re- search Laboratory, Corvallis. ~ GPO 92 1-104 W tar^T^ ------- |