Lawrence J. Jensen

Biography
[EPA press release - October 17, 1985]

The U.S. Senate yesterday unanimously confirmed Jennifer Joy Manson to be EPA's Assistant Administrator for External Affairs and Lawrence J. Jensen to be Assistant Administrator for Water.

Jensen will have responsibility for managing the agency's water quality programs. He will oversee the setting of drinking water standards, the development of effluent guidelines for industry and municipal wastewater treatment plants, the construction grants program, and the agency's efforts to protect ground water, clean up bays and estuaries, and regulate the dumping of wastes in the ocean.

Jensen, 35, has been serving as Associate Solicitor for Energy and Resources in the Department of the Interior. In that capacity, he acted as the principal legal counsel in Interior on issues involving reclamation and water law and the management and use of the public lands, including mineral leasing, royalty management, land acquisitions and exchanges, international boundary disputes, grazing and timber. While at Interior, he also served for eighteen months as Associate Solicitor for Indian Affairs.

Prior to coming to Washington in 1981, Jensen practiced law in Salt Lake City with the law firm of Jones, Waldo, Holbrook, and McDonough. He also spent three years working as a trial lawyer in the Department of Justice.

Jensen is a native of Utah. He did his undergraduate work at Yale University and the University of Utah. He is a 1976 graduate of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University.

Jensen is married to the former Terri Fisher of Provo, Utah. They have three daughters.

Lawrence J. Jensen

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