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Michael Leavitt, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, said he expects to stay in the post during President Bush's second term and isn't seeking another position in the administration.
''I'm not seeking anything other than doing the best job at EPA,'' Leavitt told reporters at a conference in Washington. ''I have no reason to believe I'll be doing anything other than what I'm doing.''
Leavitt, a former governor of Utah, took over the agency last November, succeeding former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, who resigned five months earlier.
The EPA implements environmental protection laws enacted by Congress. It has 18,000 employees in Washington and more than a dozen laboratories around the country.
''I've had no discussions other than the presumption that I'm to move forward,'' Leavitt said.