---
kind: "section"
citation: "40 C.F.R. § 1.1"
title: "40"
number: "1.1"
heading: "Creation and authority."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/40/1.1"
---

# §1.1. Creation and authority.


Reorganization Plan 3 of 1970, established the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the Executive branch as an independent Agency, effective December 2, 1970.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552; Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1970, 84 Stat. 2086 (July 9, 1970).

### Source

Source: 50 FR 26721, June 28, 1985, unless otherwise noted.