Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

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The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is the head of the United States federal government's Environmental Protection Agency, and is thus responsible for enforcing the nation's Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, as well as numerous other environmental statutes. The Administrator is nominated by the President, and must be confirmed by a vote of the Senate. The office of Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency was created in 1970 in legislation that created the Environmental Protection Agency.

The EPA Administrator is customarily accorded Cabinet rank by the President of the United States and sits with the President, Vice President, and the 15 Cabinet Secretaries. Since the late 1980s, there has been a movement to make the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency a Cabinet Secretary, thus making the EPA a 16th Cabinet department, dealing with environmental affairs.

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Administrators of the EPA

Name	Term of Office	President(s) served under
William D. Ruckelshaus	December 4, 1970 – April 30, 1973	Richard Nixon
Robert Fri (Acting)	April 30, 1973 – September 12, 1973	Richard Nixon
Russell E. Train	September 12, 1973 – January 20, 1977	Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
John Quarles, Jr. (Acting)	January 21, 1977 – March 6, 1977	Jimmy Carter
Douglas M. Costle	March 7, 1977 – January 20, 1981	Jimmy Carter
Steve Jellinek (Acting)	January 21, 1981 – January 25, 1981	Ronald Reagan
Walter Barber, Jr. (Acting)	January 25, 1981 – May 19, 1981	Ronald Reagan
Anne M. Burford (n�e Gorsuch)	May 20, 1981 – March 9, 1983	Ronald Reagan
Lee Verstandig (Acting)	March 9, 1983 – May 17, 1983	Ronald Reagan
William D. Ruckelshaus	May 18, 1983 – January 4, 1985	Ronald Reagan
Lee M. Thomas (Acting)	January 4, 1985 – February 7, 1985	Ronald Reagan
Lee M. Thomas	February 8, 1985 – January 20, 1989	Ronald Reagan
John Moore (Acting)	January 21, 1989 – February 5, 1989	George H.W. Bush
William K. Reilly	February 6, 1989 – January 20, 1993	George H.W. Bush
Carol M. Browner	January 22, 1993 – January 19, 2001	Bill Clinton
W. Michael McCabe (Acting)	January 20, 2001 – January 30, 2001	George W. Bush
Christine Todd Whitman	January 31, 2001 – June 27, 2003	George W. Bush
Linda J. Fisher (Acting)	June 28, 2003 – July 11, 2003	George W. Bush
Marianne L. Horinko (Acting)	July 12, 2003 – November 5, 2003	George W. Bush
Michael O. Leavitt	November 6, 2003 – January 26, 2005	George W. Bush
Stephen L. Johnson	April 29, 2005 – present	George W. Bush

Note that Acting Administrators usually assume the office in the interim period between the resignation of a previous Administrator and the confirmation of his or her successor, or during the transition period between two Presidential administrations, before the successor has been nominated and confirmed. Acting Administrators come from within the EPA and usually hold an office that is subject to Senate confirmation before becoming the Acting Administrator. They are not subject to Senate confirmation to serve as the Acting Administrator, though to continue to serve as a full-fledged Administrator (as in the case of Lee M. Thomas), they must be confirmed by the Senate.

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