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Daniel J. Snyder III
Biography
[EPA press release - May 15, 1973]
The appointment of Daniel J. Snyder III as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator for the Middle Atlantic Region was announced today by Robert Fri, Acting EPA Administrator.
Snyder, 29, of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, is a lawyer and was deputy minority staff counsel on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee before joining EPA in January 1972, as the Agency's Regional Counsel. He was appointed acting deputy Regional Administrator in May 1972. He has been acting Regional Administrator since February 1973.
Snyder will be responsible for overseeing federal environmental programs in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. He will be in charge of the 400-member regional staff, headquartered in Philadelphia but which also includes laboratories in Annapolis, Maryland; Charlottesville, Virginia; and Wheeling, West Virginia.
Snyder succeeds Edward W. Furia, who resigned in February to resume his environmental consulting practice.
"I am convinced from his demonstrated performance since joining EPA that Dan Snyder will provide the kind of solid leadership that is crucial to working out our environmental problems," Fri said.
Among his duties are to approve or disapprove federal grants for municipal sewage treatment plant construction and al State plans to clean up air and water pollution under the Clean Air Act and the Amendments to the Water Quality Control Act.
Snyder is a graduate of Dickinson College and the University of Virginia Law School. During the past semester, he taught environmental law at Villanova University Law School in Villanova, Pennasylvania.
Snyder and his wife, Lynda, now live in Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
EPA has 10 regional offices throughout the country.