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Michael R. Deland
Biography
[EPA press release - June 27, 1983]
William D. Ruckelshaus, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, today announced the appointments of three new regional administrators.
Ruckelshaus is appointing Michael R. Deland to head EPA's Region I headquartered in Boston, Thomas P. Eicher to head Region III in Philadelphia, and John G. Welles to head Region VIII in Denver.
Deland will be responsible for administering and enforcing all EPA programs in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Eichler will head the agency's activities in Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia.
Welles will head the agency's activities in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota.
"These men have the management skills and the experience in environmental issues that will be needed as regional administrators under the more expanded role I am assigning the regional offices," Ruckelshaus aid. "Mike brings nearly five years of agency enforcement experience back to Region I. Tom has a grasp of local and state environmental problems that only his years of experience at that level of government can bring. And John Welles comes to the agency after an impressive career in research and management of natural resources."
Deland, a consultant for Environmental Research and Technology, Inc., in Concord, Massachusetts, was chief of EPA's enforcement branch from November 1973 to July 1976, where he was in charge of preparing all enforcement actions brought by EPA in New England. Between January 1972 and November 1973, he was chief of the agency's legal review section, where he supervised the attorneys and support staff of that section. Between November 1971 and December 1972, he was an agency attorney.
Deland received his bachelor of arts degree from Harvard College in 1963 and his law degree from Boston College in 1969.
He lives with his wife and two children in Weston, Massachusetts.