Nomination of Lawrence J. Jensen To Be an Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

The President today announced his intention to nominate Lawrence J. Jensen to be an Assistant Administrator (General Counsel) of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He would succeed Francis S. Blake.

Mr. Jensen is currently Acting General Counsel for the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC. Prior to this he was an Assistant Administrator (Water Programs) at EPA, 1985-1988. He was an Associate Solicitor at the Department of the Interior, 1981-1985, and an associate in Jones, Waldo, Holbrook, and McDonough in Salt Lake City, UT, 1979-1981. From 1976 to 1979, he was a trial attorney in the Civil

Division at the Department of Justice.

Mr. Jensen graduated from the University of Utah (B.A., 1973) and Brigham Young University (J.D., 1976). He was born January 17, 1950, in Salt Lake City, UT. He is married, has three children, and resides in Woodbridge, VA.