Nomination of Jack E. Ravan To Be an Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

The President today announced his intention to nominate Jack E. Ravan to be an Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (Water Programs). He would succeed Frederic A. Eidsness, Jr.

Since 1982 Mr. Ravan has served as director of Project Development, Clean Water Group, Wheelabrator-Frye in Atlanta, Ga. Previously he was director of the Alabama Department of Energy in 1980-1982; on the executive management committee and a director of business development for Jordan, Jones & Goulding in Atlanta, Ga., in 1977-1980; Chairman of the Southeastern Federal Regional Council in 1973-1977; a member of the Ohio River Basin Commission in 1972-1977; and Regional Administrator, southeastern region, Environmental Protection Agency, in 1971-1977.

He graduated from the United States Military Academy (B.S., 1959). He is married, has three children, and resides in Dunwoody, Ga. He was born June 18, 1937, in Easley, S.C.