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title: "40 CFR §1.1"

source: "https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-40/section-1.1"

title_number: "40"

volume_number: "1"

chapter_number: "Unknown"

subchapter_code: "A"

subchapter_subject: "GENERAL"

part_code: "1"

part_subject: "STATEMENT OF ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL INFORMATION"

subpart_code: "A"

subpart_subject: "Introduction"

section_number: "1.1"

section_subject: "Creation and authority."

cfr_reference: "40 CFR 1.1"

title_name: "Title 40"

title_subject: "Protection of Environment"

parts_covered: "Parts 1 to 49"

revised_date: "Revised as of July 1, 2019"

publication_date: "As of July 1, 2019"

contains_description: "Containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect"

publication_info: "Published by the Office of the Federal Register National Archives and Records Administration as a Special Edition of the Federal Register"

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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.

§1.1 - Creation and authority.