Year Month "U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Special Government Employee (SGE) List"

Key Chapter Title List

1. EPA SGE's from Last Month
2. Name Compressed (Surname Compressed Format List)

Document Introduction

This report, based on data generated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Personnel and Reporting System (OHRS - Data Analytics & Solutions Division) on May 5, 2025, comprehensively lists all Special Government Employees registered on the EPA roster during April 2025. Special Government Employees are a specific personnel category within the U.S. federal government system, typically referring to non-full-time employees who serve government agencies on a temporary or intermittent basis, often bringing external expertise and experience from specialized fields. This list was compiled by strictly filtering based on their pay plan codes, meaning it includes only employees with pay plans ED, EF, or EH.

The core content of the report is a detailed name list, presented in a "surname compressed" format, comprising over four hundred Special Government Employees. The list is arranged alphabetically, starting from ACHESON, CAROLYN M. and ending with ZOTA, AMI R. It includes the employees' full names (including middle initials), with some names followed by the annotation "NMN" (abbreviation for No Middle Name), reflecting the standardized entry format of the original data. This directory covers professionals from various fields potentially relevant to EPA functions, including environmental science, public health, toxicology, risk assessment, engineering, law, and policy analysis.

From a methodological perspective, this report constitutes basic personnel data compilation. Its value lies in providing a cross-sectional overview of the external expert community involved in EPA work at a specific point in time. The report does not further categorize or analyze the employees' backgrounds, specialized fields, specific duties, or terms of service. However, the raw list itself forms an important data foundation for further research. For example, researchers could cross-analyze the structure of external expertise the EPA relies on for specific issues (such as climate change, chemical management, environmental justice, etc.) by combining this list with publicly available academic and professional background information.

For policy analysts, government governance researchers, and professionals focused on the U.S. environmental policy-making process, this list holds unique reference value. It indirectly reveals the extent and scale of the EPA's reliance on external intellectual resources in performing its regulatory, research, and policy-making functions. Understanding the composition of Special Government Employees helps provide insight into how federal agencies absorb expertise from academia, industry, and other sectors to address complex technical and scientific challenges, potentially influencing the professional orientation and balance of interests in policy formulation. As a purely data compilation, this report provides an objective starting point for subsequent in-depth research on phenomena such as the "revolving door" in the U.S. environmental governance system, the effectiveness of expert advisory mechanisms, and the scientific rigor of policies.