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Stephen L. Johnson
EPA Deputy Administrator
Biography
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The Office of the Administrator provides executive and logisitical support
for the EPA Administrator and the staff offices that directly support
the Administrator. The Administrator is responsible to the President,
and is assisted by the Deputy Administrator
and staff offices. The Office of the Administrator
supports the leadership of EPA 's programs and activities to protect human
health and safeguard the air, water, and land upon which life depends.
The following offices within the Office of the
Administrator help support the mission of EPA and day to day operations:
- Administrative Law Judges conducts hearings and renders
decisions in proceedings brought by the EPA.
- Children's Health Protection supports and facilitates
EPA efforts to protect children's health by working with federal agencies,
states, and private sector entities.
- Civil Rights enforces
federal non-discrimination laws in all of the Agency's internal and
external programs and policies.
- Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations coordinates
Interactions between Congress, States, and local governments.
- Cooperative Environmental Management provide through management
of the Federal Advisory Committee process. EPA's Advisory committees
bring the concerned public into a productive, information-gathering
process to assist in the development of national and international environmental
policies.
- Environmental Appeals Board acts as the final Agency decision
maker on administrative appeals under all major environmental statutes
that EPA administers.
- Executive Secretariat tracks executive correspondence
and Freedom of Information Act requests, and maintains the official
records for the Administrator and Deputy Administrator.
- Executive Services provides administrative and financial
management services to all of the component offices of the Office of
the Administrator.
- Homeland Security focuses on leading and coordinating homeland security
activities and policy development across all EPA program areas; and
on ensuring consistent direction, efficient use of resources, and effective
communication of homeland security efforts both within and outside the
Agency.
- Policy, Economics, & Innovation
serves as the Agency's focal point for regulatory analysis, economic
analysis, and innovative policy development to achieve greater and more
cost effective public health and environmental protection.
- Public Affairs serves
as the Agency's primary policy office on all Agency communications,
environmental education and media relations activities.
- Science Advisory Board assures the scientific and technical
basis for EPA rules and regulations, and integrates policies that guide
Agency decision-makers in their use of scientific and technical information.
- Small and Disadvantaged Business
Utilization assures the development of policies and the oversight
relating to preference programs for small, small disadvantaged, women-owned
businesses and hubzones.
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