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Andy Sawyer is an Assistant Chief Counsel at the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) in Sacramento, California, where his responsibilities include managing the activities of the Office of Chief Counsel involving the State Water Board_s water right and underground storage tank programs. Mr. Sawyer has worked for the State Water Board since 1977, following a clerkship with Justice Samuel J. Roberts of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. Mr. Sawyer is a former chair of the Environmental Law Section of the State Bar of California, and a former chair of the Environmental Law Section of Sacramento County Bar Association. Mr. Sawyer received his J.D. in 1976 from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall), and his A.B in 1973 from Harvard.