Retired U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) drinking water official Charles A. Job will serve as regulatory affairs manager for the National Ground Water Association (NGWA), effective Jan. 1, 2016. Job will report to Lauren Schapker, NGWA’s director of government affairs.
Job worked with the U.S. EPA for more than 29 years, having served since 2000 as its infrastructure branch chief. He also led work in standards and risk management, underground injection control, regulatory coordination, and information collection. During part of his agency tenure, Job worked in EPA Region V in groundwater protection and water quality standards planning. He also was a charter participant in the recent development of the National Ground-Water Monitoring Network, a multiagency private sector data-sharing project.