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<p>The agency's budgeted employee level in 2023 was 16,204.1 <a href="page.php?w=full-time_equivalent">full-time equivalent</a> (FTE). More than half of EPA's employees are engineers, scientists, and environmental protection specialists; other employees include legal, public affairs, financial, and information technologists.</p>

<p><big>History</big></p>
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<p>Beginning in the late 1950s and through the 1960s, the <a href="page.php?w=United_States_Congress">US Congress</a> reacted to increasing public concern about the</p><p>
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