NEWS FOR AND ABOUT EPA EMPLOYEES
INSIDE:
~	New Benefit Statements
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VOLUME 3 NUMBER 11 August 1986
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Prudence Goforth discusses operation of copy machine with
Reginald Matthews.
Handicapped Coordinators
Region 1
Paula Watson
223-7212
Region 2
Marilyn Quinones
264-8218
Region 3
Dianne Pebullo
597-4008
Region 4
Tom Harmuth
257-7109
Region 5
Sandra Hadley
886-6412
Region 6
Dana Sundguard
729-2712
Region 7
Jackie Beard
757-2821
Region 8
Mary Rogers
564-1710
Region 9
Vickie Lane
454-8016
Region 10
Wendy Andersen
399-2956
Headquarters
Rita Jensen
382-3141
Cincinnati
Bob Schneider
684-7807
Las Vegas
Nancy Porter
545-2412
NEIC
Jane Chadbourne
776-5114
RTP
Shirley Bowen
629-4381
Ann Arbor
Donald Burian
374-8308
Handicapped Program Pays Off
Society calls those with
disabilities "handicapped."
EPA calls them "employees."
At EPA, people with dis-
abilities are performing a
wide range of activities in-
cluding analyzing pesticides,
running copier services,
repairing machinery, and act-
ing as technical information
specialists.
Not too long ago, the idea
of hiring the handicapped
was dismissed as un-
productive. Today, 491 em-
ployees with various types of
disabilities are providing val-
uable services for the
Agency.
The coordinator for the
Handicapped Program at
headquarters is Rita Jensen.
Her work includes assuring
opportunities for qualified
handicapped individuals
with regard to hiring, place-
ment, and advancement in
headquarters programs.
Within the Facilities and
Support Services Division
(FSSD), there is also a service
specifically designed to de-
liver timely information to
the Agency and to the public.
FSSD has a team of 15 hand-
capped employees respon-
sible for copying services.
Prudence Goforth, a Social
Sciences Program Speciaist,
works exclusively with this
group. They are located in
various EPA facilities around
the Washington area, and
will assist in producing a
small mountain of copies.
This group is dedicated to
providing superior
photocopying service, which
is rated as the single most
widely used administrative
service.
In addition, the Agency has
a contract with Fairfax
Opportunities Unlimited, a
nonprofit organization, to
employ severely handicapped
individuals for mailroom and
distribution services.
Each region also has
programs to enhance
opportunities for
handicapped employees (see
box). Last year, for
example, Region 2 entered
into an agreement with the
New York State Office of
Vocational Rehabilitation to
provide training and work
experience for deaf students
as part of a structured
school-to-work transition
program. The students were
given three-month
internships and provided
with interpreters for their
first two weeks on the job. So
successful was the program
that two students were hired
as permanent employees.
(For more information on the
Regional Handicapped
Program, call Carolyn
Johnson at 382-3308, or
Zandra Kern at 382-3323). ~
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People
Letters
. . a means for Agency employees lo communicate lo other employees
whatever messages of criticism, praise, opinion, or explanation they so
desire Brevity and constructive suggestions are encouraged; obscenik
rudeness are disallowed Letters will be published as space allows af
be edited for clarity and conciseness No attempt is made by the edil
confirm any data presented by correspondents and the opinions expreS
should not be taken lo represent Agency positions, unless signed by the
head of the appropriate o/fice All letters must be signed and accompanied
by submitter's office location and telephone number.
i' so
pre^Bu
Clarence demons of EPA's Center for Environmental
Research Information in Cincinnati was named Federal
Employee of the Year at a luncheon sponsored by the Federal
Executive Board. Mr. Clemons has more than 30 publications
to his credit, and has been active in a Minority Research
Apprenticeship Program.
Diane Bartlow of Procurement and Contracts Management
Division (PCMD) was awarded the Office of Administration
Commitment to Excellence Award for the second quarter of
1986. Diane was recognized for her efforts "above and beyond
the call of duty" during PCMD's recent renovation of its
offices at the Fairchild Building.
Retirees: Henrietta Lucke, 17 years, John Busik, 23 years,
Flo Ryer, 37 years, Robert VanDenburgh, 29 years, Holt
Landon, 24 years, John Golueke, 34 years, and Robert Ceder,
34 years, Headquarters . . . Mary Pavek, 18 years, Pete
Tedeschi, 12 years, and Helen Kujawa, 11 years, Region 5 . . .
David Pickman, 15 years, Region 1 . . . Fairy Gregory, 16
years, Research Triangle Park . . . Robert Att, 16 years, Las
Vegas . . . Bernard Jones, 22 years, Duluth . . . Selden Heath,
20 years, Cincinnati.
Special Act Awards presented to: William Mansfield,
Dwight Doxey, and Kathleen Conway, Office of the
Administrator . . . Cadotta Jones, Jacqueline Cherry, and Rene
Young, Enforcement and Compliance Monitoring . . . Anne
Hollander and Jane Rissler, Pesticides and Toxic Substances
. . . Anne Mangiafico, Patricia Cox, Thomas Kern, Joyce
Johnson, Christine Yost, Alan Wehmeyer, Richard Walker,
and John Sykes, Administration and Resources Management
. . . Leo Cox, Water . . . John Garbak, Wendell Cunningham,
and Steven Albrink, Air and Radiation . . . Kevin Hull,
Research and Development . . . Dewayne Durst, Region 7.
Sustained Superior Performance Awards presented to:
Brenda Selden, Office of the Administrator . . . Pamela Sbar,
Enforcement and Compliance Monitoring . . . William Long,
Administration and Resources Management . . . Susan
Watkins, Enforcement and Compliance Monitoring.
Employee Benefit Statements
Dear Editor:
I am on a 120-day assignment to the Waste Management
Division and have been asked by a number of people to give
my impression of my new job. This is not an easy task,
considering all the new material I have been exposed to.
There is one item I am able to comment on, however, and that
is the use of acronyms and abbreviations in the RCRA
Program. To provide an example of the extent to which
acronyms are used, 1 will tell you about my first 30 days in
the WD using the RCRA language.
On my first day at my new job the East Unit Chief of the
WCS, RMB, WD, gave me the RIP. That first day 1 learned that
a TSD facility may have to comply with other environmental
Acts in addition to RCRA. Some of these Acts are the CAA,
CWA, CERCLA, SDWA, TSCA and FIFRA. Also, the 1984
HSWA extended government regulations to SQGs and USTs.
This all sounds very confusing but the OSWER in Washington
has developed HWDMS to monitor EAs including AOs, COs,
NOVs, H orders, 3013s and 7003s. Another EA I didn't list is
a CAO which has two components, an RI and a CMS.
One of the most violated of all the RCRA requirements is
Section 3004(t). The O/O or RP must submit evidence thj^_
funds are available to assure closure or PC. If no eviden^M
provided the O/O or RP may be required to appear befo^J
ALJ.
One of my current jobs is writing a report concerning GWM
facilities and LOIS.
One program that impacts greatly on the RCRA program is
CERCLA. All CERCLA sites must abide by RCRA
requirements. CERCLA sites must originate from the NPL after
being evaluated through the HRS. All procedures for CERCLA
sites are listed in the NCP.
Trying to remember all this information is difficult, but one
thing that no one is allowed to forget is that the main
objective of the RCRA program is to protect HHE using BDAT.
Louis Mancuso
Region 4
The Office of the Comptrol-
ler has announced that Em-
ployee Benefit Statements
will be issued again in Sep-
tember 1986 to all permanent
full-time and part-time em-
ployees. Although the state-
ments were originally going
to be issued every two years,
the response from employees
to the 1985 statements was so
positive that Morgan King-
horn, EPA's Comptroller, de-
cided to issue the statements
every year. The statements
will again contain informa-
tion and projections relating
to an employee's individual
health and life insurance
coverage, Medicare, disabil-
ity, and retirement benefits.
Retirement projections will
be based on the employee's
most recent employment
with EPA, and utilize
assumptions regarding past
federal earnings history.
The statements will be
mailed to the employees'
homes, and all employees are
urged to review them careful-
ly and to share the informa-
tion with their family before
placing it in a safe place for
future reference.
If employees have any
questions after reviewing
their statements, they should
contact their local personnel
office. ~
Clarification
To prevent any possible.misunderstanding of the article
on the "New Retirement Act" in the July issue, we offer
this restatement of the facts: Employees under the new
system will be able to contribute up to 10 percent of pay
to a tax-sheltered thrift plan. The government will
automatically contribute one percent of pay, then match
dollar-for-dollar the first three percent of pay that the^j
employee contributes and the next two percent at 50^H
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Around EPA
Training Opportunities
On July 11, 25 area minority high school students
participated in a career day program co-sponsored by the
Mice of Research and Development and the Human
Bironment Center, a D.C. based nonprofit organization
^roose objective is to increase minority representation in the
environmental and natural sciences. The students are
participants in the Center's eight-week summer internship
program which emphasizes work experience in science
related fields. Presentations were made on EPA's mission and
goals, student employment opportunities at EPA, and proper
conduct during job interviews.
The EPA Education Center, the new home of the Agency's
many employee development initiatives, opened July 15.
Administrator Lee Thomas, Deputy Administrator A. James
Barnes, and Assistant Administrator Howard Messner kicked
off the Center's inaugural activities in a ceremony conducted
on Waterside Mall's North Plaza. They then joined other EPA
employees on a tour of the Center and a review of displays
designed to showcase the varied human resource
development programs available to EPA staff . . . Copies of the
course announcements can be picked up in Room 2830, and
space at the Education Center may be reserved by calling
382-2997.
Administrator Lee Thomas (center], Assistant Administrator
for Administration Howard Messner (left), and Deputy
Administrator A. James Barnes (rightJ speak at Center's
opening /uly 15.
Available Information	
Selections from recent acquisitions by the EPA Library which may be of
general interest.
Are You Tough Enough? By Anne Burford. HCl 10.E5.B883.
1986.
Federal Administrative Procedure Sourcebook: Statutes
and Related Materials.
Administrative Conference of the United States.
KF5406.A3. 1985.
The President & Economic Policy. Institute for the Study of
Human Issues. HC106.5.P685. 1985.
World Resources 1986. HC59.W667. 1986.
ge EPA Times is published monthly to provide news and information
and about EPA employees. Readers are encouraged to submit news of
mselves and of fellow employees, letters of opinion, questions,
nments, and suggestions to: Marilyn Rogers. Editor, The EPA Times.
Office of Public. Affairs (A-107). Telephone 382-4359. Information
selected for publication will be edited as necessary in keeping with
space available.
Currently, 560 Agency employees are enrolled in the
Zenger-Miller Supervision Seminar Series. Deputy
Administrator James Barnes has demonstrated his strong
support of this training by encouraging all Office of the
Administrator managers and supervisors to participate.
Barnes, and Milton Russell, AA for OPPE, recently awarded
certificates of completion to 23 Zenger-Miller graduates from
their offices.
For further information on the courses listed below, contact the Program
Assessment and Support Branch at 382-2997.
Effective Writing for Professionals—September 8,
10, 15, 17, 22, 24, 29—Improving the style and organization of
writing by professionals.
Negotiations—(EPA Institute program) September
8-9—Approaches and techniques for effective negotiations.
Framework for Supervision—September 10-12—Core
course for supervisors equips the participants with the skills
needed to "get off on the right foot" as a supervisor.
Managing Office Relationships—September 16,30—Skills
needed to effectively function in an office environment.
Office Management for Secretaries—September
22-23—The key components of directing the operation of an
office.
Managing Your Time—September 25-26—Using time
productively.
An EPA Institute offering on "Groundwater Modeling for
Managers" will be presented in the conference area near the
W1C. This program will focus on the fundamentals of
groundwater and contaminant transport monitoring.
New Computer Contract
For EPAers who need more
office computer equipment,
the time of waiting and
speculation is coming to a
close.
On June 23, EPA awarded
a five-year, $73 million con-
tract to the Federal Data
Corporation (FDC) to provide
Agency-wide computer sup-
port, including hardware,
software, maintenance, train-
ing, technical support, and
technology assessment.
Under the contract, several
major systems and software
packages will be available:
• Basic system
hanced PC/AT
IBM En-
•	Transportable: Compaq
286
•	Lap portable: Morrow
Pivot II
•	Word processing: Wordstar
Professional V3.3
•	Integrated spreadsheet:
Lotus 1-2-3 V2.0
•	Data base management sys-
tem: dBase III Plus VI.0
•	Communications: Cross-
talk XVI V3.6
These systems will be
"bundled"; that is, they will
include such services as sys-
tem assembly and hardware
testing, software loading and
menu development, shipping,
and user support such as
training and a telephone hot-
line for immediate problems.
The offices of each AA,
RA, and EPA laboratory have
designated PC Site Coordina-
tors who have been trained
in the contract details and
who will handle purchase re-
quests. The technical project
officer for the contract is
Ernie Watson of EPA's
National Data Processing Di-
vision at RTP, NC. He can be
reached on FTS 629-2143 or
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Nominees for OPM Award
Being employed doesn't
just benefit the handicapped
employee. Employers have
found that handicapped in-
dividuals are an under-
utilized group of dedicated
and talented workers. Each
year, the Office of Personnel
Management sponsors an
awards program to honor out-
standing handicapped federal
employees. The program
serves not only to recognize
their achievements and con-
tributions, but also to make
managers aware of their
value to the organization.
This year, Elmer Hayes, of
EPA's Office of Pesticide Pro-
grams, was chosen from five
nominees as the Agency's
Outstanding Handicapped
Employee. Mr. Hayes began
his career in the federal gov-
ernment as a Program Spe-
cialist with the Office of Pesti
cide Programs. In January
1972, after expressing a de-
sire to work as a laboratory
chemist, he was reassigned to
a chemist position in OPP's
Chemistry Laborary in Belts-
ville, Maryland. His initia-
tive, creativity, hard work,
and perseverance in over-
coming his hearing impair-
ment have earned him a posi-
tion as one of the lab's senior
chemists.
Hayes developed one of the
first high performance liquid
chromatographic methods for
analyzing pesticide residues.
He has published and pre-
sented a number of scientific
papers at the national meet-
ing of the Association of Offi-
cial Analytical Chemists.
Hayes is a source of in-
spiration and leadership to
hearing-impaired students at
Gallaudet College, his alma
mater. He has personally
worked with a number of sci-
ence students and chemists
from Gallaudet, providing
them analytical chemistry
training at the Beltsville lab-
oratory. He also serves as a
guest speaker in the science
department, an instructor in
the Continuing Education
Program, and participates in
the annual Careerathon at
Gallaudet. Other community
activities in which he is in-
volved include serving as sci-
ence fair judge and wrestling
coach at the D.C. Model Sec-
ondary School for the Deaf.
The other four nominees
for the award who have also
performed noteworthy tasks
for the Agency, are: Susan
Brewer, Copy Equipment
Operator, Office of Adminis-
tration, Facilities and Sup-
port Services Division; Mary
Joan Begg, Copier/Duplicating
Equipment Operator, Office
of Toxic Substances, Informa-
tion Management Division;
Paul Savage, Clerk, Office of
Pesticides and Toxic Sub-
stances, Office of Program
Management Operations; and
Victoria Robinson, Technical
Information Specialist, Re-
gion 9, Pacific Island Contact
Office, Honolulu, Hawaii. ~
The headquarters Handicapped Advisory Committee: Left to
right (top row) Rita Jensen, Headquarters Handicapped
Program Manager; Prudence Goforth, Counselor for the
Handicapped; Mary Cusato, President, American Federation
of Government Employees, Local 3331; Frank Bell, National
Federation of Federal Employees, Local 2050; Pamela Parker,
Director, Employee Counseling and Assistance Program; Amy
Brooks, Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response;
(bottom row) Kathleen O'Malley, Chairperson, Handicapped
Advisory Committee; Richard Kratofil, Office of Enforcement
and Compliance Monitoring; and Clarence Hardy, Director of
Personnel.
Victoria Robinson
Susan Brewer
Elmer Hayes

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