Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1970 - Wikipedia
The Wikipedia article covers Reorganization Plan No. 3, the 1970 presidential directive by which Richard Nixon proposed consolidating federal pollution-control functions from several agencies into a new Environmental Protection Agency, effective December 2, 1970. It traces the plan's context — Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, the first Earth Day, and the National Environmental Policy Act — and notes the EPA's legality was questioned after the Supreme Court's 1983 Chadha decision.
