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Alaska Gets New Top EPA Official
Release Date: 2/22/2000
Contact Information: Marcia Combes
combes.marcia@epamail.epa.gov
907-271-5083
February 22, 2000 - - - - - - - - - - - -- 00-010
Marcia Combes Takes Helm in Anchorage
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has a new top official in Alaska. Marcia L. Combes, a 12 year veteran of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the Anchorage office, has been named Alaska Operations Director by Chuck Clarke, EPA regional administrator in Seattle. Marcia replaces Rick Albright, who directed the Anchorage office for the past 3 years. Albright recently returned to Seattle to head the Agency’s Office of Waste and Chemicals Management.
According to EPA’s Clarke, the Combes appointment brings a new perspective and new energy to the challenges the Agency and Alaska must face together.
“Marcia brings a new set of skills and expertise to direct the Anchorage office ,” said Clarke. “We are expecting great things from her in terms of environmental problem-solving, coalition-building and rejuvenating partnerships with our many important stakeholders there. We’re very excited about having Marcia lead EPA into Alaska’s new century.”
Combes has been in Alaska 17 years. Her work with the agency began as a student intern, spearheading various projects and working in the field as an inspector, before moving into the Superfund program where she has served as a project manager at both federal facilities and private sites for most of the last 9 years.
Combes is a fourth generation Nebraskan, and a graduate of Creighton University, with a degree in chemistry (1983), and of University of Alaska, Anchorage, with a degree in civil engineering (1990). She has a well-known passion for the outdoors and a spirit for adventure.
EPA has three offices in Alaska: in Anchorage in the Federal Building downtown, in Juneau, and in Kenai.
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