A4B-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 24,2001
Gov. Ridge Announces Resignation Of DEP Secretary Seif
trate on its mission to protect the
environment.
In 1998, Seif co-chaired the
Governor’s 21st Century Envi
ronment Commission to identify
environmental priorities for the
new century. The commission’s
report led to the creation of the
nearly $650 million Growing
Greener initiative, signed into
law by Gov. Ridge in December
1999, making the single-largest
environmental investment in
Pennsylvania’s history. Growing
Greener, in its second year now,
is preserving open space and
farmland, reclaiming aban
doned mines, restoring
watersheds, maintaining state
parks and forests, and upgrad
ing water and sewer systems.
Seifs work on the commission
also led to the development of
the Growing Smarter initiative
to give communities new tools to
manage growth, while protect
ing private property rights; to
allow communities to plan
jointly; and to require state
agencies to consider local land
use plans and ordinances in
making permit and grant deci-
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) Gov. Tom Ridge has an
nounced the resignation of
James M. Seif, Secretary of En
vironmental Protection, effec
tive March 31. Seif will become
vice president of Corporate Ser
vices for PPL Corp., headquar
tered in Allentown, Lehigh
County.
Gov. Ridge said he expects to
announce his nominee to replace
Seif prior to his March 31 depar
ture. That nominee will serve as
acting secretary pending his or
her Senate confirmation.
“Jim Seif was my clear choice
for Secretary of Environmental
Resources when I began my Ad
ministration in 1995, and his
work during the last six years
demonstrates I was right,” Gov.
Ridge said. “Three of my ad
ministration’s greatest accom
plishments Land Recycling,
Growing Greener and Growing
Smarter - would not have been
possible without his advocacy
and guidance.
“Under his extraordinary
leadership, DEP has made great
strides working with many part
ners to protect and restore our
watersheds, to prevent pollution
before it occurs, and to share in
formation with communities
and ask for their input.
“Jim drove home the message
that environmemai protection
and economic prosperity are in
tertwined. He has helped to
forge Pennsylvania’s environ
mental vision for the 21st cen
turv. I wish Jim well as he
embarks on his new endeavor,
and I thank him for his service
and commitment to Pennsylva
nia’s environment and to the
many Pennsylvanians, now and
in the future, who will benefit
from the cleaner, greener envi
ronment he helped to make.”
Seif guided the Department of
Environmental Resources
through a split into the depart
ments of Environmental Protec
tion (DEP), and Conservation
and Natural Resources
(DCNR). In 1995, Gov. Ridge
signed into law legislation reor
ganizing the state’s environmen
tal agencies for the first time in
25 years - to focus more atten
tion on the needs of state parks
and forests in a new DCNR, and
to enable a new DEP to concern
sions.
Pennsylvania’s award
winning Land Recycling Pro
gram, created under the Ridge
Administration, has resulted in
the cleanup of more than 800
sites, with 25,000 people at work
on lormer industrial properties.
Other initiatives include the
Money Back Permit Guarantee
that provides timely decisions
on permit applications; creation
of the first online Environmen
tal Compliance Tracking
System (eFACTS) in the nation
to give the public for the first
time access to compliance infor
mation on individual facilities,
by program and by geographic
area; and the creation of the
Office of Pollution Prevention
and Compliance Assistance to
help businesses, local govern
ments and the public under
stand, comply with and go
beyond environmental regula
tions to achieve a goal of zero
pollution.
Prior to his appointment by
Gov. Ridge, Secretary Seif was
Counsel to the Philadelphia law
firm of Dechert Price Rhoads,
which he joined in January
1989.
Seif began his legal career in
1971 in Pittsburgh with the U.S.
Department of Justice as an as
sistant U.S. attorney, where he
handled some of the nation’s
earliest environmental cases. He
also served as administrative as
sistant to Gov. Dick Thorn-
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burgh, and as a regional
administrator for the U.S. Envi
ronmental Protection Agency.
A native of Pittsburgh, Seif at
tended Yale University and the
University of Pittsburgh School
of Law.
Seif lives in Blue Bell, Mont-
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