John G. Welles

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 said. "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."

Welles has been vice president in charge of planning and public affairs for the Colorado School of Mines since 1974. From 1956 to 1974, he was head of the Industrial Economics Division of the University of Denver Research Institute. From 1971 to 1972, Welles was consultant to the Secretariat of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Geneva, Switzerland.

Welles received an engineering degree from Yale University in 1946 and his master's in business administration from Philadelphia's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce in 1949.

He is married and has four children.

John G. Welles

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