<Tr> <Th> Formation </Th> <Td> 1970 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> www.epa.gov </Td> </Tr> <P> 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 of the United States 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 agency . </P> <P> The EPA Administrator is customarily accorded Cabinet rank by the President 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 policy . The Administrator of the EPA is equivalent to the position of Minister of the Environment in other countries . </P>

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