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James L. Agee
Biography
[EPA press release - September 16, 1971]
The appointment of two more Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrators was announced today by William D. Ruckelshaus, EPA Administrator.
They are:
Paul DeFalco, 47, Morago, California, Administrator for Region 9, with headquarters in San Francisco, California.
James L. Agee, 44, Seattle, Washington, Administrator for Region 10, with headquarters in Seattle.
Ruckelshaus said that DeFalco and Agee, who have been serving as Acting EPA Regional Administrators, have successfully launched EPA programs in their respective regions and have established good relationships with Sate and local groups.
Ruckelshaus said that the officials were chosen from a long list of well-qualified candidates.
Agee, who has been serving as Acting Regional Administrator in EPA's Region 10, will be responsible for EPA programs in Idaho, Washington and Alaska.
A native of McMinnville, Oregon, Agee is a graduate of Oregon State College and has a Master of Science degree in civil engineering from Harvard University. He also successfully completed the residential program in executive education at the Federal Executive Institute in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1969.
A former Regional Director for the Federal Water Quality Administration in the U.S. Department of the Interior, Agee received the Department of the Interior Meritorious Service Award in 1967 and 1968. He and his wife, Elayne, have three children.
The two new appointments raise to eight the number of EPA Regional Administrators announced so far. The other Regional Administrators previously named are Francis T. Mayo, Region 5, with headquarters in Chicago; John A. S. McGlennon, Region 1, with headquarters in Boston; Jerome H. Svore, Region 7, with headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri; Gerald M. Hansler, Region 2, headquartered in New York City; John A. Green, Region 8, with headquarters in Denver, and Jack E. Ravan, Region 4, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
EPA has 10 regional offices. Selection of the Administrators for Region 3, headquartered in Philadelphia and Region 6, which is headquartered in Dallas, will be completed shortly.