Appointment of Valdas V. Adamkus To Be a United States Commissioner on the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission

The President today announced his intention to appoint Valdas V. Adamkus to be a Commissioner representing the United States Government on the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission. He would succeed Jack E. Ravan.

Since 1981 Mr. Adamkus has been an Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for Region V in Chicago, IL. Prior to this he served as a Deputy Regional Administrator for the EPA, 1970-1981. Mr. Adamkus has also served as Deputy Director and then Director of the Ohio River Basin Regional Office in Cincinnati.

Mr. Adamkus attended the University of Munich and graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology (B.S., 1960). He was born November 3, 1926, in Kaunas, Lithuania. He served in the United States Army Reserve, 1950-1959. He is married and resides in Hinsdale, IL.