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Jerome H. Svore
Biography
[EPA press release - July 29, 1971]
The appointment of two more Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrators was announced today by William D. Ruckelshaus, EPA Administrator.
They are:
John A. S. McGlennon, 35, Concord, Massachusetts, Administrator for Region 1, with headquarters in Boston.
Jerome H. Svore, 59, Overland Park, Kansas, Administrator for Region 7, with headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri.
Ruckelshaus stated that he is confident that these men "will provide the type of energetic and dedicated leadership needed to protect our environment. They are going to be given great responsibility in order to ensure that EPA's programs are responsive to local and area needs."
The EPA Administrator said that these officials were selected from a long list of well-qualified candidates.
Svore, a career Government official, will be responsible for EPA programs in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska.
Svore, who now heads EPA's air pollution control, radiological health, solid waste management and water hygiene programs in EPA's Region 7, is a former regional assistant Administrator for the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's Environmental Health Service.
A former director of the U.S. Public Health Service's National Center for Urban and Industrial Health, Svore served as Deputy Commissioner of the Environmental Health Service's Environmental Control Administration 1968-69. He served as a State health official in Wyoming and North Dakota early in his career.
He is a graduate of the University of North Dakota and received a master of science degree in sanitary engineering from Harvard University. Svore and his wife, Ruth, have two children.
The selection of McGlennon and Svore raised to three the number of EPA Regional Administrators announced so far. The appointment of Francis T. Mayo as Administrator for Region 5 with headquarters in Chicago was announced on July 14 by Ruckelshaus.
The names of the Administrators for the seven other EPA Regions will be announced shortly.
The Regional Administrators are appointed by Ruckelshaus based on recommendations made by an EPA Selection Panel headed by Donald Mosiman, Assistant Administrator for Media Programs. Other members of the panel were Thomas Carroll, Assistant Administrator for Planning and Management; David D. Dominick, Assistant Administrator for Categorical Programs; and John Quarles, Assistant Administrator for Enforcement and General Counsel.
Lester Klashman has been serving as Acting Administrator for and John Rademacher has been Acting Administrator for EPA's Region 7.
Ruckelshaus said Rademacher and Klashman are both "highly qualified officials who will be offered key posts in the EPA organization."