Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, August 30, 1994 TAG: 9408300098
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-3 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: By CATHRYN McCUE STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: LENGTH: Medium
Schmidt also named four people who will join the agency's executive management team in Richmond.
Thomas L. Henderson will be in charge of the air, water and waste management duties in the Roanoke regional office, now spread out in different buildings on Peters Creek and Hershberger roads.
Henderson has worked in the state's air pollution control program since 1973 and served as Lynchburg's regional director of air programs for the last 10 years. Schmidt, in reshuffling the department this summer, eliminated the Lynchburg region as a separate administrative area.
Schmidt also combined three jobs into one in each region by creating an overall director's position, rather than having three directors - for air, water and waste management.
Other regional directors are:
Michael Overstreet in Abingdon, director of that region's air division since 1972.
R. Bradley Chewning in Harrisonburg, formerly with the water division in Front Royal on the Occoquan project.
Gregory L. Clayton in Woodbridge, to cover Northern Virginia. Clayton had been director of the air division in Fredericksburg since 1989 and worked in the air division since 1974.
Gerard Seeley Jr. in Richmond, formerly with the water division as groundwater supervisor and director of the Piedmont region's water office since 1987.
Francis L. Daniel in the Tidewater office, an air inspector in that region since 1979 and director of the region's air program since 1988.
These regional directors and the four program directors will work to make the department ``more responsive to the public and provide sound technical assistance as we work to protect the environment,'' Schmidt said.
The four program directors are:
Robert G. Burnley, as director of program support and evaluation, will oversee permits, compliance, monitoring and inspections, as well as provide technical assistance to the regions. Burnley, a 20-year state worker, was Roanoke's regional water director before heading up the state's water program.
Harry H. Kelso, as director of enforcement, policy and public affairs, will be responsible for enforcement, legislation, policy, grants, and public and intergovernmental affairs. He comes to the DEQ from the U.S. Department of Justice's Environment and Natural Resources Division, where he served as counsel to the assistant U.S. attorney general for three years and as a trial attorney for six years.
John E. Cunningham Jr., as director of administration, will be responsible for budget, computer information services and general services. Cunningham, a certified public accountant, served in the water division as an internal audit supervisor.
Michael P. Murphy, as director of grants management, will assume new duties for the agency by actively seeking grant money for the department. He joined the waste division in 1988 as the state's first recycling program manager.
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