In the proposed reorganization of his Executive Office,¹ President Carter rejected the suggestions of his Office of Management and Budget (OMB) reorganization team to abolish or greatly deemphasize the importance of the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). Mr. Carter decided instead to keep CEQ in its position of environmental advisor to the president and coordinator of government implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). This action preserves CEQ's basic integrity even though some administrative functions were lost and represents a clear victory for those opposed to derogation of environmental considerations in the highest levels of executive decision making. The decision also seems to vindicate those who expected the President to have greater sensitivity than his predecessors to protection of the environment. In addition, because of the visible political support for CEQ generated² by the threatened destruction of its present role and the important new tasks that have been assigned to it by the president in his Environmental Message,³ the Council has actually emerged in a stronger position and promises to play a very significant part in the setting of federal environmental policy.