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...President Reagan gave every indication of being determined to keep Burford. One top White House aide offered a sarcastic assessment: "We have nothing against her except that she might not have managed the agency properly." Officials described the new talent at EPA as calculated to strengthen top management, particularly in the Superfund program. "We're going to surround her," said a Reagan adviser...
...situation. Twice last week the President tried to down-play the problems, blaming the press for exaggerating the story. Said Reagan: "We're falling into that trap of running as if the sky is falling, just on the basis of accusations, without... any substance back of it. The EPA has, in truth, done a fine job." But White House insiders conceded that the Administration was hurting. Said one: "We may have handed the Democrats another good issue...
...officials dismissed on Wednesday were EPA Inspector General Matthew Novick, whose job was to police waste and misdeeds in the agency, and John Horton, the agency's director of administration. Novick is being investigated by the General Accounting Office on allegations that he used Government employees to do personal work for him during office hours; the Justice Department is looking into accusations that Horton used his EPA office to run private businesses...
Charles Dempsey, 54, the inspector general at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, will fill in temporarily for Novick. Alfred M. Zuck, 48 an Assistant Secretary of Labor for Administration and Management, was named to take over for Horton on an acting basis. EPA Official Courtney Riordan, 45, the acting administrator for research and development, was named to the post permanently. The White House tapped Lee Thomas, 38, to replace the ousted Rita Lavelle as head of the agency's hazardous-waste program. The Administration also created a new congressional-liaison job designed to smooth ruffled relations between...
...year after Reagan took office, and one remained without a permanent appointee until last week. By week's end it was disclosed that Reagan is considering launching a study, to be directed by University of Illinois Professor David F. Linowes, a management expert, that will look into the EPA's handling of the $1.6 billion Superfund...