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John A. Green
Biography
[EPA press release - September 1, 1971]
The appointment of three Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrators was announced today by William D. Ruckelshaus, EPA Administrator.
They are:
Gerald M. Hansler, 38, Summit, New Jersey, Administrator for Region 2, with headquarters in New York City.
John A. Green, 53, Springfield, Virginia, Administrator for Region 8, with headquarters in Denver, Colorado.
Jack E. Ravan, 34, Fairfax, Virginia, Administrator for Region 4, with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.
Ruckelshaus said that Hansler, who has been serving as Acting EPA Regional Administrator in region 2, has succeeded in effectively launching EPA programs in this region and has established good relationships with State and local groups.
The EPA Administrator said that Green, Management Assistant to the EPA Assistant Administrator for Categorical Programs, has shown great managerial ability and predicted that Ravan will prove to be a strong and vigorous leader in Region 4.
Green, a former Director of the Office of Management in the Federal Water Quality Administration, is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel. His military service included tours as Assistant Chief, Surveillance and Continental Systems Division; Deputy Director for Operations and Training in Saigon, Vietnam; and commanding officer, 8th Air Division at Ranstein Air Force Base, Germany.
Green also served in the Air Force from 1969 to 1964 as Director of Operations, Colorado Springs, Colorado. A native of Newark, New Jersey, he is a graduate of Holy Cross.
Green will be responsible for EPA programs in Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming.
Green and his wife, Kathleen, have three children.
The three new appointments bring to six the number of EPA Regional Administrators announced so far. The other Regional Administrators previously named are Francis T. May, Region 5, with headquarters in Chicago; John McGlennon, Region 1, with headquarters in Boston; and Jerome H. Svore, Region 7, with headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri.
EPA has 10 regional offices. Selection of the Administrators for the other four regions will be completed shortly.