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...hard to miss the glaring resemblances in the initial stages of the congressional investigation to a scenario we have encountered before. The refusal of EPA Administrator Anne M. Burford (formerly Gorsuch) to surrender subpoenaed documents, the mysterious use of a paper-shredder to dispose of the documents in question, President Reagan's defense of Burford's obstinacy on the grounds of "executive privilege," the frantic passing-the-buck of various EPA administrators on the witness stand--all of these are too reminiscent of the Watergate hearings to read about without shivering a little...
Despite these moves, several congressional leaders clamored for the sacking of Anne McGill Burford, who was known as Anne Gorsuch until her marriage to Robert Burford, an aide to Interior Department Secretary James Watt, two days before her appearance in Times Beach. But there was no gratis honeymoon period for her on the Hill. Investigators for congressional subcommittees probed charges of political favoritism, conflict of interest and mismanagement at the EPA. They began to focus on Burford's role in overseeing the Superfund, a $1.6 billion program to clean up the nation's worst toxic dumps. Some Administration...
MARRIED. Anne M. Gorsuch, 40, administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency; and Robert F. Burford, 60, director of the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management; both for the second time; in Washington, D.C. They met in 1977 when both were in the Colorado state legislature...
UNDER the mismanagement of Reagan-appointed administrator Anne Gorsuch Burford, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has suffered its worst year ever. Charged by environmentalist critics with moving slowly in toxic-waste cleanup efforts, the Agency is currently under investigation by the Justice Department and a half-dozen congressional subcommittees seeking answers to allegations of mismanagement of the $1.6 billion Superfund and of the use of cleanup decisions for political leverage. Each day the list of charges grows longer, highlighting the agency's failure to meet its responsibilities, and raising serious questions about Burford's understanding of her job description...
...Gorsuch elicited little sympathy from lawmakers of either party. The Senators warned her that they plan to get to the bottom of charges of mismanagement and political favoritism that taint the Superfund program. Chided Democratic Senator Max Baucus: "I think there's a feeling in the committee, and the country, that the EPA no longer cares...