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RICHARD FARRELL APPOINTED AS ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR FOR REINVENTION
Release Date: 06/11/99
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FOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1999
RICHARD FARRELL APPOINTED AS ASSOCIATE
ADMINISTRATOR FOR REINVENTION
ADMINISTRATOR FOR REINVENTION
Richard Farrell will become EPA’s Associate Administrator for the Office of Reinvention on June 14. He has served as Director of Management and Administration at the U.S. Department of Energy since October 1998. From 1995 to 1998, he was Secretary of the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, the state’s largest regulatory and consumer protection department. He was Vice-President for Government Affairs of the Syntex Corporation from 1988 to 1994. For sixteen years, from 1972 to 1988, he served on the staff of Florida’s former U.S. Senator, Lawton Chiles, as Chief of Staff and Legislative Director. Farrell holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in government from Florida State University. The Agency’s Office of Reinvention is responsible for a broad-based agency program directed at protecting the environment and public health through innovative environmental management approaches that promise greater efficiency and effectiveness, including efforts to eliminate outdated and duplicative provisions and innovative ways of achieving better and more cost-effective public health and environmental protection in cleaner, cheaper and smarter ways.
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