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Biography - Deputy Administrator Marcus C. Peacock
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Marcus Peacock is the Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA implements the nation’s environmental laws with over 17,000 employees and an annual budget of $7.7 billion. He was sworn in to office August 8, 2005. Within a month of being sworn in, Mr. Peacock was appointed the lead for coordinating EPA’s response to Hurricane Katrina. Subsequently, the Inspector General described EPA’s post-Katrina operations as ‘commendable.’ Currently, Mr. Peacock is focusing on improving EPA management systems including the development of the Agency’s first Quarterly Management Reports.
From 2001 until August 2005, Mr. Peacock served as an Associate Director at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB). At OMB he was responsible for making budget decisions encompassing $160 billion in spending at the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Energy, the Department of the Interior, NASA, EPA and other federal agencies. While at OMB, Mr. Peacock created the Performance Assessment Rating Tool, or PART, which is used to rate the effectiveness of federal programs (see http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/expectmore/.) The PART won Harvard University’s prestigious Innovations in Government Award in 2005 and the American Society for Public Administration's Leadership Award in 2007.
Prior to 2001, Mr. Peacock served on the staff of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure in the U.S. House of Representatives. Before working on Capitol Hill he held various staff positions at the Office of Management and Budget and was an engineer and supervisor in a magazine printing plant.
Mr. Peacock has a Master of Public Policy from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California. He registered as a Professional Engineer in the District of Columbia in 1995 (license currently inactive).
Read Marcus Peacock's blog, Flow Of The River