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EPA's Marian Mlay
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
groundwater monitoring and remediation
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.677
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1745-6592
pISSN - 1069-3629
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-6592.1987.tb01071.x
Subject(s) - interview , phone , feeling , agency (philosophy) , work (physics) , visual arts , business , psychology , political science , art , sociology , engineering , law , social psychology , social science , philosophy , linguistics , mechanical engineering
Marian Mlay, director of the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Ground Water Protection, is about to be interviewed. She just concluded a three‐hour meeting, and as she shakes your hand, you can almost hear the gears shifting. She brushes her hair back away from her face, composes herself and faces the interviewer. If she looks a little harried it's because she is. She and her 18‐person staff have just completed a major document, the 400‐page “Guidelines for Ground Water Classification Under the EPA Ground Water Protection Strategy.” She has several equally important deadlines facing her; two major projects are due in June. Today is also the deadline for comments concerning the classification document, and her office is receiving last‐minute phone calls and messenger packages. She, and staff member/chief hydrogeologist Ron Hoffer, are cordial, even warm. But you can't help feeling this interview is wasting their time. There is work to be done, as the interview printed here clearly indicates.