In 1962 Wolman served as the OST representative on the Federal Council on Science and Technology's Task Group on Water Resources Research. There is correspondence, drafts and the final report. This was a study President Kennedy asked the National Academy of Science to undertake. Wolman worked with Theodore M. Schaad.

In 1963 for the OST Wolman visited Arizona to assess the problems of salinity in the Colorado River, the border between the U.S. and Mexico. Wolman was the chairman of the Board of Technical Advisors for the International Boundary Commission dealing with the Colorado River from 1976 to 1979. There is a notebook of minutes, maps, and supporting documents from 1976.

Wolman served on an OST panel of water resources research beginning in 1964, and in 1967 he was appointed to the Panel on Water Resources Policy and Institutions. There is correspondence and reports.

Other assignments through the Executive Office of the President which are documented include participation in 1961 on the Life Sciences Panel's Ad Hoc Committee on Environmental Health. Wolman also helped prepare the Council on Environmental Quality's paper on marine pollution. From 1967 to 1971 Wolman served as a consultant to OST's National Council on Marine Resources and Engineering Development. He previewed the contents of annual report of the President on Marine Resources and Engineering.

From 1969 to 1973 Wolman served as a consultant to the Water Pollution Control Panel of the National Water Commission whose executive director was Theodore M. Schaad. There is correspondence, minutes and drafts of reports. There is also some correspondence concerning a talk by Abel Wolman to the White House fellows in 1970.