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Marianne Lamont Horinko Named Acting EPA Administrator
July 10--
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that Marianne Lamont Horinko will replace Linda Fisher as Acting Administrator, effective July 11. Horinko currently serves as EPA Assistant Administrator for Solid Waste & Emergency Response (OSWER), a post she has held since the fall of 2001. During her tenure as Assistant Administrator Horinko guided OSWER through a series of unprecedented challenges. In addition to coordinating EPA's involvement in the post-September 11 cleanup of lower Manhattan, Horinko dealt with decontaminating the Hart Senate building after anthrax appeared in Senator Tom Daschle's office. This year Horinko's department disposed of dangerous fragments that the Columbia space shuttle explosion spread across Texas.
Horinko came to head OSWER with waste-management experience in the EPA and elsewhere. She was Assistant Administrator for OSWER from 1989 to 1993 and served as president of Clay Associates, a consulting company for hazardous waste issues, before returning to EPA in 2001.
Horinko will be the third woman to hold the top administrative post for EPA in less than a month. Fisher, her immediate predecessor, replaced departing EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman on June 27.
President Bush has not yet tapped a candidate to be Whitman's permanent successor and can legally delay the decision until January 2004. As long as the President nominates a candidate before the January deadline, Horinko can remain Acting Administrator until the Senate confirms the new appointee. Though the White House has released no names, Idaho Governor Dirk Kempthorne (R) is rumored to be a likely choice.
Stephen Johnson will become the new Acting Deputy Administrator of the EPA. A 21- year veteran of the agency, Johnson is currently Assistant Administrator of the Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances.
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