ACTION ON CONGRESSIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS Recommendations, House Appropriations Committee: No specific actions recommended. Recommendations, Senate Appropriations Committee: No specific actions recommended. SPECIAL BENEFITS For "Special Benefits" for the period July 1, 1976, through September 30, 1976, $70 million.1 Activity 1.-Federal Employees' Compensation Act Benefits.—(July 1-September 30, 1976, $108,134,000). NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM In the transitional period $108,134,000 in medical, compensation and related benefits will be expended according to the provisions of the Federal Employees' Compensation Act and its extensions, approximately one-fourth of the fiscal year 1976 level. Activity 2.-Disabled Coal Miners' Benefits.-(July 1-September 30, 1976, $5,050,000). 1 Explanation of language change: The Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974, Public Law 93-344, changes the fiscal year from July 1-June 30 to October 1September 30. This language covers the 3-month period between the end of fiscal year 1976 and the beginning of fiscal year 1977. NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM Benefits totaling $5,050,000 will be paid during the transitional period. This amount is approximately at one-fourth of the amount requested for medical and compensation benefits under the fiscal year 1976 request for this activity. Activity 3.-Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Benefits.— (July 1-September 30, 1976, $516,000). NARRATIVE DESCRIPTION OF PROGRAM An estimated $516,000 will be paid out during this period as the Federal Government's share of the increased benefits for all permanent disability and death cases being paid at the time of the enactment of the 1972 Amendments to the Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, approximately onefourth of the fiscal year 1976 level. WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1975. OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH SALARIES AND EXPENSES WITNESSES JOHN H. STENDER, ASSISTANT SECRETARY JOHN E. PLUMMER, ASSOCIATE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ADMINISTRATIVE PROGRAMS ALEXANDER J. REIS, ASSOCIATE ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR NATIONAL PROGRAMS HOWARD J. SCHULTE, DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY BARRY J. WHITE, ASSOCIATE REGIONAL PROGRAMS ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR CLINTON WRIGHT, ACTING DIRECTOR OFFICE OF FIELD PERFORMANCE EVALUATION DAVID C. ZEIGLER, DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF FINANCIAL MAN- ALFRED M. ZUCK, COMPTROLLER FOR THE DEPARTMENT Mr. FLOOD. We are still with the Department of Labor. Occupational Safety and Health Administration is next. The presentation will be made by John H. Stender, who is the Assistant Secretary. We have your biographical sketch, Mr. Stender, which we will place in the record at this point. [Biographical sketches of staff follow:] JOHN H. STENDER John H. Stender is Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health. His nomination to this position by the President was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 3, 1973. Immediately prior to his appointment, Mr. Stender held positions as State Senator in the State of Washington, and as International Vice President of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers (AFL-CIO) for the States of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, and Alaska-a position he had held since 1958. He was also a member of the Boilermakers National Executive Council, and the Board of Directors of the National Maritime Council. 52-899 O-75-39 Mr. Stender first achieved elected office in 1946 as Business Manager and Secretary of Boilermakers Welders' Local 541 in Seattle, Washington. He subsequently organized the Northwest Metal Crafts Trust Fund and served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees for over 10 years. He was appointed by President Eisenhower as 1 of 2 labor members of the National Committee on Programs and Progress (Percy Committee) in 1959, and later served on the National Big Cities Committee (Bliss Committee). He was elected President of the LaborManagement Committee on Fair Foreign Competition. As a member of the Washington State Senate since 1962, his most recent committee assignments included: Constitution, Elections and Legislative Processes, Education, Labor and Social Security, Highways, and Senate Rules. Mr. Stender was also a member of the Washington State Legislative Council. Mr. Stender was born at Ismay, Custer County, Montana on July 16, 1916, and attended Billings Polytechnic Institute (now Rocky Mountain College). He has maintained his family home in Auburn, Washington for over 30 years, and has four grown children. JOHN E. PLUMMER John Edward Plummer, Associate Assistant Secretary for Administrative Programs for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), joined the Federal Government in April 1971 as an expert in Management and Data Processing Systems. In September of that year Mr. Plummer was appointed as the Deputy Director for the new Office of Management Data Systems. He was instrumental in organizing a management team which designed and implemented the management information system for OSHA. He assumed his present position with OSHA in November, 1973, and is responsible for personnel management services, financial management, organizational analysis and program operations review for the agency. Prior to entering the Government, Mr. Plummer held several management positions, the last as Electronic Data Processing Manager for the Federal Systems Division of the National Cash Register Company (NCR). Other positions were with the Travelers' Insurance Company and the Ford Motor Company. His work in private industry dealt with data processing, administrative management, marketing or business forecasting. Mr. Plummer was born in 1938 in Portland, Maine. He received a B.A. degree in Social Sciences from the University of Maryland. He is a U.S. Air Force veteran. ALEXANDER J. REIS Alexander J. Reis was sworn in as Associate Assistant Secretary for National Programs in December 1973. In this capacity he is responsible for standards development, training and education, and Federal agency safety programs. Prior to joining the Occupational Safety and Health Administration he was the State of California's Assistant Secretary for Occupational Safety and Health, responsible for the development and implementation of that State's 18(b) plan. Mr. Reis is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. He is married and has two adult children. HOWARD J. SCHULTE Howard J. Schulte was sworn in as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health in December 1973. Prior to this assignment he was Assistant Regional Director for OSHA's Region 8 (Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota) based in Denver, Colorado. Mr. Schulte joined OSHA at its inception in 1971 and has been with the Department of Labor since 1963. Prior to joining OSHA, Mr. Schulte was Regional Director of the Bureau of Labor Standards for the 10 states of the Kansas City Region. His administration of the Bureau in the Midwest and mountain states for five years included enforcing provisions of the Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act. Mr. Schulte served in the Corps of Engineers for 28 years in various capacities such as surveyman, construction inspector, resident engineer, planning engineer. special studies engineer, and safety engineer in the St. Louis; Galveston, Texas; Mobile, Alabama, and Kansas City Districts. He also served three years as chief safety engineer on corps' projects in Europe, Asia and Africa, supervising the safety of some 50,000 men on projects where about 25 different languages were spoken and the working habits were as variable and diverse as the dogmas of the several hundred major religions represented. Mr. Schulte is a Registered Professional Engineer and a Certified Safety Professional. BARRY J. WHITE Barry J. White was sworn in as OSH Associate Assistant Secretary for regional programs in December 1973. He has been with OSHA since its inception, previously as Director of the Office of Management Services where he was responsible for personnel management services, financial management, organizational analysis and program operations review. In 1967 White was appointed Administrative Officer for the Manpower Administration's Bureau of work-training programs with primary management responsibility for 750 Bureau employees in 45 field locations. In 1969, White joined the Bureau of Employees' Compensation as an Executive Assistant and Assistant Director for Administrative Management. There, White directed 550 employees who administered several workmen's compensation laws for approximately 4 million workers. In August 1970, he was appointed Director of the Office of Management Systems and Services for the Workplace Standards Administration. In his present position, White supervises the Federal compliance effort, including the voluntary compliance program, the safety and industrial hygiene programs, the variance determination program, and the State programs. He directly supervises the 10 assistant regional directors. White was born in Glendale, California and received a B.A. degree in English from the University of California at Los Angeles; and an M.A. degree in Public Administration from George Washington University. MRS. CLINTON MARIE WRIGHT Mrs. Clinton Marie Wright, Acting Director, Office of Field Performance Evaluation in Regional Programs for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, has worked for the U.S. Department of Labor since 1965. Mrs. Wright, who was born in Smithville, Tex., received a B.S. degree from Houston-Tillotson College in Austin, Tex., and later a B.A. degree from the University of Maryland at its European Division in Heidelberg,, Germany. Mrs. Wright also holds a master's degree in public administration from the University of Southern California, where she received a Career Educational Award for a year of study in urban affairs. She is currently enrolled in a doctoral program in public administration with the Washington Public Affairs Center of the University of Southern California. Before joining the Department of Labor, Mrs. Wright served with Headquarters, U.S. Air Force in Europe, where she held several positions in the Directorate of Manpower and Organization. Mrs. Wright subsequently served Labor's Manpower Administration as Special Assistant to the Director of the Office of Management Systems, and as head of the management studies staff. Mrs. Wright's present duties involve responsibility for the development and management of a comprehensive, field performance evaluation system for the varied occupational safety and health activities carried out by the field staff of OSHA. Mrs. Wright has received five Federal Service Awards for Outstanding and Superior Performance, and is a member of the American Society for Public Administration. DAVID C. ZEIGLER David C. Zeigler was appointed Chief of Financial Management in July 1972. Mr. Zeigler is a career employee who has served in the Department of Labor since 1963. He began his career as a clerk-typist in the Bureau of Employees Compensation and has served as a budget analyst in BEC, the Office of the Solicitor, and the Office of Budget Policy and Review before joining OSHA in June 1971. He was OSHA budget officer from June 1971 until July 1972. Mr. Zeigler served in the U.S. Army Reserve program from 1967 through 1973. Born in York, Pa., on January 30, 1946, he received his undergraduate education in business administration at George Washington University. He has also done graduate work in business and public administration at George Washington. He and his wife, the former Priscilla Compton, of Martinsville, Va., live in Falls Church, Va. ALFRED M. ZUCK Mr. Zuck was appointed Comptroller of the Department of Labor in January 1975. Since joining the Department in 1958, he has held a variety of management posts in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration and the Manpower Administration, including Associate Manpower Administrator for manpower data systems and for financial and management information systems. In 1967-68, he was Director of Federal Programs for the President's Council on Youth Opportunity on a 1-year leave of absence from the Department. In 1974, Mr. Zuck was presented the Labor Department's Distinguished Career Service Award, presented annually to the two most exceptional young men in Federal service for outstanding contributions to public administration. Mr. Zuck was born in 1935 and is a native of East Petersburg, Pa. He was graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. degree from Franklin and Marshall College in 1957. He received his master's degree with distinction in political science from Syracuse University in 1958. Mr. Zuck is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Gamma Mu, Kappa Sigma, and the American Society for Public Administration. He, his wife, and two children live in Vienna, Va. TRAVIS A. KNIGHT Travis A. Knight, as Director of the Department of Labor's Office of Budget, is the top budget official in the Department. Mr. Knight, born in 1938, is a career civil servant who began his Government service with the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division in the mid 1950's. With the exception of attendance at college and military service, he has worked in a variety of staff and management positions in the Department over the past 17 years. From April 1973 to September 1973, Mr. Knight served as executive assistant to Paul J. Fasser, Jr., who was occupying the position of Assistant Secretary for Labor-Management Services Administration. Prior to this, Mr. Knight was special assistant to Mr. Fasser who was then Manpower Administrator. Other positions in the Department included assignments with the Presidential Railroad Commission, the Office of the Secretary, and the Office of Associate Manpower Administrator for Financial and Management Systems. A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Mr. Knight spent his youth in Baltimore. He received his B.A. in business administration from the University of Baltimore and has done graduate work in public administration at George Washington University. Mr. Knight is married to the former Nancy Brummittee of Norton, Va. They have two children, Brian and Amy, and live in Springfield, Va. INTRODUCTION OF STAFF Mr. FLOOD. If you want to have us meet any of the people you have with you, we will. Who are they? Mr. STENDER. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to introduce my deputy, Howard Schulte; my associate assistant for national programs. Al Reis; my associate assistant for administrative programs, John Plummer; my associate assistant for regional programs, Mr. Barry White; and with them our director of the Office of Field Performance Evaluation, Mrs. Clinton Wright; and our financial officer, Dave Zeigler. Mr. FLOOD. All right. Now you have a statement, I see |