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Alan Merson
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:
Merson--43 years old, a resident of Aspen, Colorado. He has been a law professor at the University of Denver since 1969 where he now teaches courses that include environmental law, State and local government law, land use planning and constitutional law. Prior to this, Merson practiced law in Anchorage, Alaska, where he also served as Assistant District Attorney in 1964. He was the Democratic nominee for Congress from Colorado's fourth district in 1972. Merson is chairman of the Colorado Land Use Commission, is a member of the Colorado governor's planning and coordinating council, and has been a consultant to the Rocky Mountain Center on the Environment. He holds bachelor's and law degrees from Harvard College. Merson is married and has 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.