William R. Adams, Jr.

Biography
[EPA press release - June 13, 1977]

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Douglas M. Costle today announced the appointment of Kathleen Quinn Camin as head of EPA's Region VII Office in Kansas City, Missouri, and William R. Adams, Jr. as Direction of the Agency's Region I Office in Boston.

Adams, 48, is currently Commissioner, Department of Environmental Protection and Chairman, Board of Environmental Protection for the State of Maine. In his new job, Adams will be responsible for implementing EPA's programs in the States of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.

Prior to becoming Commissioner in 1972, Adams was Director of Maine's Environmental Improvement Commission from 1969-1972, Director of Public Works in Lewiston, Maine from 1965-1969, and from 1954-1965 held various other municipal and private engineering posts in that city.

Adams is Vice Chairman of the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission, and is or has been a member of the National Committee on Water Quality Task Force on Public Participation, the Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators, State and Territorial Air Pollution Control Administrators, the U.S.-Canada Committee on Water Quality in the St. John River, and the Environmental Protection Agency Decentralization Task Force.

Born December 11, 1928, in Lewiston, Maine, Adams attended high school there and graduated from the University of South Carolina in 1951 with a B.S. in Civil Engineering. From 1951-1954 he served as an Ensign/Lt. Junior Grade in the U.S. Navy.

As the new Region I Director, he succeeds John McGlennon.

William R. Adams, Jr.

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