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Rick Newsome retires from Army post after environmental cleanup career
Newsome is a native of Wilkes County and the youngest son of Jenelle C. Newsome and the late Marion Newsome of Washington. He is a 1971 graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology, and received his Masters from the same institution in 1972. He is a registered professional engineer. The retirement ceremony was held at the Vantage Point Restaurant in Rosslyn, Va. Newsome was presented the Assistant Secretary's Certificateof Appreciation and the Department of the Army Exceptional Civilian Service Medal. The retiree had served as the executive manager for environmental restoration programs for over 17,000 sites nationwide at active, Base Realignment and Closure, and National Guard installations, and Formerly Used Defense Sites properties with combined annual budgets of more than $700 million. He set the standard as the proponent for environmental restoration program in issuing policy and guidance and providing direction. Newsome represented the Army in negotiations with States and other federal agencies to establish cleanup requirement for numerous installations including the 1996 onpost Record of Decision to govern the cleanup of Rocky Mountain Arsenal, a $2 billion cleanup and established the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Refuge; the 1990 transfer of the cleanup responsibility of the Presidio of San Francisco to the U.S. National Park Service saving over $100 million; the 1996 first-ever partial delisting from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Priorities List of any Federal agency at Fort Lewis, Washington; and many other noteworthy accomplishments.
Newsome and his wife, Nan Randall Newsome, also of Washington- Wilkes have two daughters, Jenna and Darcy.
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