Appointment of Alfred M. Zuck as an Acting Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

The President is today designating Alfred M. Zuck to be Acting Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for Administration. He will succeed John P. Horton, resigned.

Mr. Zuck has served as Assistant Secretary of Labor for Administration and Management since 1977. Additionally, he served as Acting Secretary of Labor during the transition in 1981 and Executive Director, Commission on Executive, Legislative and Judicial Salaries in 1980. He was Comptroller for the Department of Labor in 1975-1977; Director, Administration and Management, Employment and Training Administration, Department of Labor, in 1970-1975; Director, Office of Evaluation, Employment and Training Administration, in 1968-1970; and Director, Federal Programs, President's Council on Youth Opportunity, in 1967-1968. He served in other positions at the Department of Labor beginning in 1958.

Mr. Zuck was the recipient of the Presidential Distinguished Executive Rank Award in 1980, the Distinguished Career Service Award in 1974, and the William A. Jump Memorial Award in 1974. He is a member of the board of visitors, Maxwell School of Syracuse University.

He graduated from Franklin and Marshall College (B.A., 1957) and the Maxwell School of Syracuse University (M.A., 1958). He is married, has two children, and resides in Vienna, Va. He was born August 27, 1934, in East Petersburg, Pa.