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VOLUME 4 NUMBER 4 JANUARY 1987
Distinguished Executives Honored
Howard M. Messner,
Assistant Administrator for
Administration and Re-
sources Management, and
Dr. John A. Moore, Assis-
tant Administrator for Pesti-
cides and Toxic Substances,
were among 44 "Dis-
tinguished Senior Execu-
tive" awardees recognized
by President Reagan in a
White House ceremony on
December 8. The awards are
presented to managers for
exceptional performance
over a period of years in
leadership positions in the
federal government. The
same day, Charles L. Elkins,
Director, Office of Toxic
Substances won a
Meritorious Executive
Award for his services.
"Democracy in a nation
as large as ours requires a
dedicated team of skilled
public servants to carry out
the will of the people," the
President declared. The
Presidential Rank Awards
"honor those who, through
effort, leadership, and im-
agination have most dis-
tinguished themselves in
this vital work." Constance
Horner, Director of the
Office of Personnel Manage-
ment, said,"I know from my
personal acquaintance with
many former winners, and
some of this year's, that
they are toughminded and
honorable stewards of
democracy."
Messner's distinguished
career has included key
management positions in
the Congressional Budget
Office, Office of Manage-
ment and Budget, and De-
partment of Energy, as well
as EPA. He demonstrated
extraordinary accomplish-
ment in these positions by
designing and successfully
installing administrative
and management functions
for the newly established
Environmental Protection
Agency, designing and set-
ting up imaginative ad-
ministrative systems and a
program analysis capability
in the new Congressional
Budget Office, creating an
administrative structure for
the new Federal Energy Ad-
ministration, providing the
thrust for implementation
of the Federal Managers'
Financial Integrity Act,
pushing for programs to
combat fraud and waste in
government, initiating Re-
form '88 as a long-term
management effort, launch-
ing the President's Private-
Sector Survey on Cost Con-
trol, and leading the Presi-
dent's Council on Manage-
ment Improvement in creat-
ing and implementing inno-
vative concepts to improve
administrative services
government-wide. Messner
has been recognized for his
many achievements through
receipt of OMB's Award for
Exceptional Service, the
William A. Jump Memorial
Foundation Award for Ex-
emplary Service in Public
Administration, and elec-
tion to membership in the
National Academy of Public
Administration.
During his federal career,
Moore has demonstrated ex-
traordinary accomplishment
through personal initiatives
Howard M. Messner
in pursuing higher levels of
cooperation between and
among federal agencies,
state governments, and the
private sector. At the De-
partment of Health and Hu-
man Services, Moore de-
veloped the National
Toxicology Program with
resources from several
federal organizations, and
he developed one of the
most outstanding toxicology
research groups in the
country. At the Environ-
mental Protection Agency,
he upgraded public and pri-
vate sector participation in
the regulation and registra-
tion of all pesticides mar-
keted in the United States,
the premanufacture review
of new industrial chemicals
introduced into commerce,
and the assessment, testing,
and regulation of industrial
chemicals already in use.
His innovative policies
have greatly boosted the
credibility and scientific
validity of the regulatory
process.
Dr. John A. Moore
Elkins was recognized for
his signal contributions to
the Agency over the past 16
years. He helped es-
tablished EPA in late 1970
and the critical months
thereafter. His positions
have included Acting Assis-
tant Administrator for Air
and Radiation on two occa-
sions, Acting Assistant Ad-
ministrator for Hazardous
Materials Control, Director
of the Noise Control Pro-
gram, and Director of the
Acid Rain Policy Staff. Be-
fore coming to EPA, Elkins
was budget examiner at the
Bureau of the Budget for
HEW's environmental,
occupational and consumer
protection programs.
Considering its size, EPA
was extremely well
represented in these awards;
we can all be proud of our
winners as well as share in a
little of the credit for the
valuable work we all do so
well. ~

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People
Retirees: Nanette Liepman, 16 years, Thomas Duke, 28
years, Edward McLean, 23 years, George Meyer, 25 years,
Francelia Nelson, 23 years, Norman Whalen, 30 years,
Harry Beard, 22 years, Headquarters . . . Melva Downey,
24 years, Hubert Duckett, 18 years, Region 7 . . . Amanda
Markey, 7 years, Region 1 . . . Rosemary Witt, 25 years,
Region 5 . . . Richard Jamron, 13 years, Ann Arbor . . .
Kenneih Moss, 24 years, Las Vegas . . . Sara Sharpe, 20
years, Donald Walters, 28 years, Research Triangle Park.
Special Act Awards presented to: Kirk Foster, Air and
Radiation . . . Francis Schultz, Robert Peterson, Nancy
Frost, and William Weis, Pesticides and Toxic Substances
. . . Judith Ford, LuWan Davis, and Shirley Simpler,
Research and Development . . . Arelia Wright, Paul Icke,
Marie Perez, Cordelia Reynolds, and Joyce Hudson, Water
. . . Joni Sage, Solid Waste and Emergency Response . . .
Brenda Bray, Shirley Loftin, Janet Harvey, Christopher
Dunlap, James Smith, Michael Rickey, Michael Simmons,
Rita Fry, Roberta Block, Linda Hudson, Gerald McMillan,
Lisa Menno, Rosemary Baratti, Martin Pinto, and Howard
Hughes, Office of the Inspectui General.
Continued Superior Performance Awards to: Tracy
Frazier, Shirley Simpler, Roxanne Settle, Jayne Ramsey,
Shirley Lucas, Nancy Kawtoski, Aileen Griggs, Wanda
Chaney, Elenora Karicher, Ethel Bush, Patricia Edwards,
Lydia Greene, Linda Jones, Barbara Beamer, Thomas
Luminello, David Kleffman, Richard Livingston, Thomas
Baugh, Lynda Erinoff, Pamela Pentz, Christopher Saint,
Teresa Pagano, Patricia Mundy, Donna Thomas, Betty
Maisonneuve, Ronald Matheny, and Evelyn Wary,
Research and Development . . Waltine Thomas, Deborah
Sahadeo, Margaret Beason, Lois Marshall, and Constance
McClain, Pesticides and Toxic Substances . . . Sylvia
Anderson, Iantha Carley, Patricia Lyttle, Barry Elman,
Joyce Morrison, Elsie Windsor, and Joel Smith, Policy,
Planning, and Evaluation . . . Joyce Johnson, Nancy Hunt,
Pamela Lott, Eugene O'Neil, Patricia Miller, Duane
Graham, Larry Wilbon, Robert Banks, Richard Duffy,
Eloisc Furbush, Merle Miller, Lisa Oyler, and Linda Flick,
Enforcement and Compliance Monitoring . . . Daniel Bell,
Robert Beverly, Patricia Blacknall, Joseph Brinkmeller,
Fernand Dahan, Gladys Davis, William Hill, Howard
Kilgore, Frances Klacik, Russell Kulp, Ronald Mason,
Roberta Miller, Percy Peacock, Delta Pereira, Cornelius
Rousey, Barbara Royster, Carl Sandine, Silva Saracco,
Dixie Taylor, Sterling Wallace, Charles Watkins, Victor
Watson, Susan Brewer, Barbara David, Joseph Eastman,
Frederick Langholz, Jerome Mackey, Carol Rivers,
Christine Thomas, Severa Wilson, Michelle Bynum,
Carolyn June, Sylvia Dodge, Phyllis McLaraney, and Mary
Smith, Administration & Resources Management . . . Mary
Belefski, Nancy Perry, Paula Monroe, Frank Hund, Susan
Denagy, Donald Anderson, Glenda Nesby, Harold
Coughlin, Denise Beverly, Eugene Crumpler, Dora Craig,
Barbara Coracoran. Ann Carkhiiff, Lynda Buie, King
Boynton, Hiranmay Biswas, Penny Barles, Warren
Banks, Paulette Ballard, Robert Bailey, Christopher
Zarba, Joseph Yance, Mitchell Dubensky, Edwin
Drabkowski, Frances Desselle, Charles Delos, Janet
Goodwin, Gloria Hamm, Nina Harlee, Michelle Harmon,
Richard Healy, Evelyn Oakley-Gordon, Elvia Niebla,
Michael Morton, Thomas Purcell, Mary Piatt, James
Plafkin, Thomas Pandolfl, Alice Mavio, John Maxted,
Debra Maness, Lowell Keup, Robert Horn, Sheila
Edwards, Matthew Hnatov, Paulette Henry, Martin
Brossman, Karen James, Dionne Atkins, Carmelita White])
James Werntz, Duane Wilding, June Lobit, Christine
Powers, Mary Tiemann, Marie Winfrey, Carol Allen,
Valerie Barnes, Robert Bastian, Georgette Boddie, David
Moon, Don Niehus, Walter Gilbert, Richard Thomas, Rita
Simon, Peter Shanafhran, Brian Thompson, Paula
Williams, Lucy Reed, Sandra Duncan, Georgette Brown,
David Evans, Edna Geter, Tod Gold, Sheila Hoover,
Dolores Keith, Jannie Latta, Lawrence McGee, William
Niess, Arnold Speiser, Eliot Tucker, and Alice Walker,
Water . . . Mary Tuohy, Paul Anderson, Sheila Allen, Ann
Gile, Beverly Garcia-Frias, Carol Jordan, Renee Goins,
Jamie Burnett, Melissa Wing, Thomas Peake, Beverly
Lavis, Stephany Cavallo, Bonnie Chiles, Sandra Connell,
Richard Friedman, Debra Rosenberg, Wendy Reed, Marcia
Ginley, Peter Lidlak, Patricia Little, Shirley Leonard,
Anita O'Brien, Phyllis Anderson, Sylvia Correa, and Sheena
DuPree, Air and Radiation . . . Barbara Vandeemer, Carol
Morey, Nancy Murley, Jacquelyn Davis, William Wagner,
Curtis Chetwood, Carl Urattain, Diane Scull, Dennis
Poltrine, Zelda Wootzlovsky, Rosemarie Ferghan, Gary
Robertson, Karen Sperekas, David Scott, Paul Jalbert,
Sheldon Kantrowitz, and Geoffrey Pierce, Office of the
Inspector General.
Around EPA
On October 7.8, EPA was piesenled an award by the
American Red Cross for its outstanding contributions in
meeting the needs of the Washington Metropolitan
Community. EPA welcomes individuals who are
committed to helping others join us in recruiting blood
donors. In March 1985, Joan LaRock, an EPA employee,
recruited donors for a very special reason, to provide
blood for her mother during a life-threatening illness.
LaRock's efforts helped EPA exceed its goal for the very
first time. The next Blood Drive is scheduled for March
19-20.
Headquarters employees interested in participating in
the EPA Band, Chorus, or Folk Group may contact Mary
Mclnnis for all the facts. Telephone: 475-6645.
On November 13, EPA held its 4th Annual Small and
Disadvantaged Business Awards Ceremony. The
Hazardous Site Control Division, Office of Emergency and
Remedial Response was named as the Outstanding
Headquarter's Program and specific mention was made of
the contribution of Paul Nadeau, William Kaschak, Scott
Fredericks, and Nancy Willis. George Coblyn, the MBE
(Minority Business Enterprise) Coordinator of Region 1,
was named as the Outstanding EPA Individual of the
Year. Also named were Region 2 as the Outstanding
Region for tho socond successive year; NUS Corporation
as the Outstanding Prime Contractor, and Analysis Group,
Incorporated was named as the Outstanding Minority
Business Enterprise of the Year. The Department of
Environmental Conservation, State of New York received
the award as the Outstanding State program and the City
of Pueblo, Colorado was named as the Outstanding
Municipal program. Howard Curren of the City of Tampa,
Florida was named Outstanding Municipal Program
Individual of the Year. ~

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One of Us
Our thanks to Mary Ellen Guay of Region 6 for submitting the
material for this story.
Efcofile: Harless Benthul—Region 6
Harless Benthul, associate regional counsel for Region 6,
has been called a man of many parts, and his physical
activities bear witness to it—technical rock climber and
mountaineer, coastal seaman, jogger.
He has surmounted Mexican volcano Popocatepetl
(17,800 feet), Colorado's Blanca Peak (14,300 feet) and the
Crestone Needle (14,100 feet)—the latter two by technical,
north-face routes—as well as numerous other climbs in
Colorado, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Benthul prepares
for such outings by jogging and doing power work-outs,
and often drives more than 80 miles after work to practice
on rocks near Mineral Wells, Texas. He is past chairman of
the Rock Climbing Section of the Dallas Sierra Club.
As a native Texan, Benthul translated a love of sailing
on Lake Dallas into volunteer work on the restoration of
the Elissa, the only authentic square-rigger between
Baltimore and San Diego, which sailed to New York for
last year's July 4 Miss Liberty Celebration. Built in 1877,
the iron barque is an operational sailing ship cum
maritime museum. Benthul says that "except for the sore
muscles" he enjoyed manning the capstan winch that
lifted the mast, just as in the old days. He occasionally
serves as a guide aboard the Elissa at her home port in
Galveston, regaling locals and tourists alike with his
nautical tales from the days when fighting off pirates and
trips to Davy Jones' locker were part of every sailor's PD.
Benthul is a member of the Dallas Chapter of the U.S.
Power Squadron, a private organization of boating
enthusiasts with 50,000 national members. He has taught
seamanship and coastal piloting to the group and is now
serving as assistant treasurer.
At EPA, Benthul focuses on litigation having to do with
grants, contracts, and personnel matters. If you had a
problem with a contractor who failed to meet his
obligations, for example, he would probably be the guy to
»j your complaints. He is said by colleagues to enjoy the
ety as well as the mental challenge of the law. He
appreciates the unusual interest the Agency takes in
developing its human resources and knows he's part of a
real team. EPA, he thinks, "is a great place to spend a
substantial part of one's professional career",and he
eagerly looks forward to the "protean challenges of the
'90s."
Friends describe Benthul as another of EPA's
Renaissance men, with broad intellectual interests and
social commitments. He loves opera and reads widely. A
long-time Sierra Club enthusiast, Benthul recognized 20
years ago how urgent it is to save the hydrological,
climatological, and geophysical systems that "support our
prosperity and our way of life."
Benthul attended Texas A&M in his undergraduate years
and got his law degree at Southern Methodist. He began
his career with University Computing Co. and later joined
Texas Instruments. Now 50, he likes to teach young people
how to climb safely, for "any excess of bogus machismo
can get you killed in a hurry." We bet that Benthul will
reach many more peaks, both in his private life and at
EPA. ~
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Departments Editor: Marilyn Rogers

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Getting the Bugs Out ... Of Headquarters
The concern over the bur-
den that pesticides place on
the environment extends to
EPA's own office facilities.
In consequence, an inno-
vative program for cock-
roach control at Waterside
Mall is now being im-
plemented.
Utilizing integrated pest
management (IPM) princi-
ples that seek to minimize
hazardous control measures
and to maximize safe ones,
the new approach should
result in fewer roaches and
less exposure to
chemicals—all for less
money.
A joint study group,
comprised of representatives
of EPA employees, the pest
manager (Paramount Pest
Control), and building man-
agement (EPA General Ser-
vices Branch and Town
Center Management), ad-
dressed the overall prob-
lem. Now a plan of op-
eration has been devised by
the IPM Unit of the Office
of Pesticide Programs,
based on data from an IPM
cockroach management
demonstration program at
the U.S. Army's Aberdeen
Proving Grounds in 1982-
83.
The plan does require a
high degree of cooperation
by EPA employees. If you
suffer from roach excess,
complain directly to the
EPA Trouble Desk at 382-
2100. Even without pro-
fessional treatment, how-
ever, individuals may
appreciably lower the roach
and rodent population by
eliminating access to food
and water and by keeping
offices clean and orderly.
For information on IPM and
cockroach management, call
the Unit office on 557-
5017. ~
The developers of the Waterside pest management plan:
(seated, J.to.r.) Myra Cypser, Elaine Suriano, and Lois Dicker,
representing the National Federation of Federal Employees;
(standing) William Currie of the Office of Pesticide Programs; .
Robert Lewis of Paramount Pest Control; and Kenneth Watkins
of the Office of Administration and Resources Management.
Grade
1987 Federal Pay Scale



General
Schedule
f



Step)— 1
2
3
4
5
6
V
8
9
10
1
9,619
9,940
10,260
10,579
10,899
11,087
11,403
11,721
11,735
12,036
2
10,816
11,073
11,430
11,735
11,866
12,215
12,564
12,913
13,262
13,611
3
11,802
12,195
12,588
12,981
13,374
13,767
14,160
M 4,553
14,946
15,339
4
13,248
13,690
14,132
14,574
15,016
15,458
15,900
16,342
16,784
17,226
5
14,822
15,316
15,810
16,304
16,798
17,292
17,786
18,280
18,774
19,268
6
16,521
17,072
17,623
18,174
18,725
19,276
19,827
20,378
20,929
21,480
7
18,358
18,970
19,582
20,194
20,806
21,418
22,030
22,642
23,254
23,866
8
20,333
21,011
21,689
22,367
23,045
23,723
24,401
25,079
25,757
26,435
9
22,458
23,207
23,956
24,705
25,454
26,203
26,952
27,701
28,450
29,199
10
24,732
25,556
26,380
27,204
28,028
28,852
29,676
30,500
31,324
32,148
11
27,172
28,078
28,984
29,890
30,796
31,702
32,608
33,514
34,420
35,326
12
32,567
33,653
34,739
35,825
36,911
37,997
39,083
40,169
41,255
42,341
13
38,727
40,018
41,309
42,600
43,891
45,182
46,473
47,764
49,055
50,346
14
45,763
47,288
48,813
50,338
51,863
53,388
54,913
56,438
57,963
59,488
15
53,830
55,624
57,418
59,212
61,006
62,800
64,594
66,388
68,182
69,976
16
63,135
65,240
67,345
69,450






Maximum rate of basic pay is $70,800.

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