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Jack J. Schramm
Biography
[EPA press release - August 5, 1977]
The Environmental Protection Agency has rounded out its group of 10 Regional Administrators under the Carter Administration by appointing three new directors in Philadelphia, Dallas and Denver and by transferring the current Dallas Regional Administrator to the Agency's office in Atlanta.
EPA Administrator Costle said that Jack J. Schramm will become Regional Administrator in Philadelphia, Adlene Harrison will head the Dallas office, and the Denver Regional Administrator will be Alan Merson.
John C. White, the current Dallas Regional Administrator, will become the regional head for EPA in Atlanta.
The other six EPA Regional Administrators are:
Boston--William R. Adams
New York--Eckardt C. Beck
Chicago--George R. Alexander, Jr.
San Francisco--Paul DeFalco, Jr.
Seattle--Donald P. DuBois
The Regional Administrators are charged with directing EPA's anti-pollution efforts in multi-state areas. The Philadelphia region consists of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia. The Dallas region is comprised of Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. The Denver region is made up of Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming. The Atlanta region consists of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
Brief biographies of the four new regional heads follow:
Schramm--45 years old, a resident of St. Louis, Missouri, where he was born. He was most recently a partner in the Clayton, Missouri law firm of Zimbalist and Schramm and also an environmental consultant for the major consulting firm of Arthur D. Little, Inc. From 1965 to 1972, Schramm was a Democratic member of the Missouri House of Representatives where he specialized in environmental, housing and tax legislation. He was responsible for major revisions of Missouri's air and water pollution laws and new legislation on solid waste management, open space and clean rivers. Schramm has a B.S. in political science from Colgate University and a law degree from St. Louis Washington University. He is married to the former June McHale of Houston. They have two children.
Schramm replaces Daniel J. Snyder III in Philadelphia. Harrison succeeds John C. White in Dallas, who replaces Jack E. Ravan in Atlanta. Merson succeeds John A. Green in Denver.