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Courtney M. Price
Biography
[EPA press release - November 3, 1983]
The U.S. Senate has confirmed the appointment of Courtney M. Price as Assistant Administrator for Enforcement and Compliance Monitoring for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Mrs. Price will be responsible for judicial enforcement actions against violators of agency-administered environmental laws, and will seek to ensure, with increased regional enforcement staffs, national consistency in the enforcement of the laws and regulations.
EPA Administrator William D. Ruckelshaus said, "Mrs. Price's primary responsibility will be to ensure that our environmental laws are firmly and fairly enforced throughout the country. National consistency in the enforcement of our laws will serve as a very important signal to the regulated community--that everyone must assume responsibility for complying with these laws.
"The Office of Enforcement and Compliance Monitoring will be the hub of a new management wheel. The office will develop compliance strategies incorporating new regional accountability measures, will oversee implementation of the strategies, and will develop quality control techniques to ensure consistency.
"I am very confident that Courtney, with increased resources and new management strategies, will restore much-needed credibility to the agency's enforcement program."
Before coming to EPA in March 1983, Mrs. Price was the Associate Administrator for Rulemaking with the Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). From June to December 1981, she served as NHTSA's Deputy Chief Counsel.
From July 1979 to June 1981, Mrs. Price worked as a staff attorney with the Department of Energy. Prior to that, she was an associate with two law firms in Los Angeles.
A native of Jackson, Miss., Mrs. Price received her A.B. degree from the University of Alabama in 1963, and her law degree form the University of Southern California in 1975.