CHAPTER 55 — National Environmental Policy
64 sections.
SUBCHAPTER I — POLICIES AND GOALS 13 sections
- § 4331. — Congressional declaration of national environmental policy
- § 4332. — Cooperation of agencies; reports; availability of information; recommendations; international and national coordination of efforts
- § 4332a. — Repealed. Pub. L. 114–94, div. A, title I, § 1304(j)(2), Dec. 4, 2015, 129 Stat. 1386
- § 4333. — Conformity of administrative procedures to national environmental policy
- § 4334. — Other statutory obligations of agencies
- § 4335. — Efforts supplemental to existing authorizations
- § 4336. — Procedure for determination of level of review
- § 4336a. — Timely and unified Federal reviews
- § 4336b. — Programmatic environmental document
- § 4336c. — Adoption of categorical exclusions
- § 4336d. — E-NEPA
- § 4336e. — Definitions
- § 4336f. — Project sponsor opt-in fees for environmental reviews
SUBCHAPTER II — COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY 9 sections
- § 4341. — Omitted
- § 4342. — Establishment; membership; Chairman; appointments
- § 4343. — Employment of personnel, experts and consultants
- § 4344. — Duties and functions
- § 4345. — Consultation with Citizens’ Advisory Committee on Environmental Quality and other representatives
- § 4346. — Tenure and compensation of members
- § 4346a. — Travel reimbursement by private organizations and Federal, State, and local governments
- § 4346b. — Expenditures in support of international activities
- § 4347. — Authorization of appropriations
SUBCHAPTER III — MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 28 sections
- §§ 4361, 4361a. — Repealed. Pub. L. 104–66, title II, § 2021(k)(1), (2), Dec. 21, 1995, 109 Stat. 728
- § 4361b. — Implementation by Administrator of Environmental Protection Agency of recommendations of “CHESS” Investigative Report; waiver; inclusion of status of implementation requirements in annual revisions of plan for research, development, and demonstration
- § 4361c. — Staff management
- § 4362. — Interagency cooperation on prevention of environmental cancer and heart and lung disease
- § 4362a. — Membership of Task Force on Environmental Cancer and Heart and Lung Disease
- § 4363. — Continuing and long-term environmental research and development
- § 4363a. — Pollution control technologies demonstrations
- § 4364. — Expenditure of funds for research and development related to regulatory program activities
- § 4365. — Science Advisory Board
- § 4366. — Identification and coordination of research, development, and demonstration activities
- § 4366a. — Omitted
- § 4367. — Reporting requirements of financial interests of officers and employees of Environmental Protection Agency
- § 4368. — Grants to qualified citizens groups
- § 4368a. — Utilization of talents of older Americans in projects of pollution prevention, abatement, and control
- § 4368b. — General assistance program
- § 4369. — Miscellaneous reports
- § 4369a. — Reports on environmental research and development activities of Agency
- § 4370. — Reimbursement for use of facilities
- § 4370a. — Assistant Administrators of Environmental Protection Agency; appointment; duties
- § 4370b. — Availability of fees and charges to carry out Agency programs
- § 4370c. — Environmental Protection Agency fees
- § 4370d. — Percentage of Federal funding for organizations owned by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals
- § 4370e. — Working capital fund in Treasury
- § 4370f. — Availability of funds after expiration of period for liquidating obligations
- § 4370g. — Availability of funds for uniforms and certain services
- § 4370h. — Availability of funds for facilities
- § 4370i. — Regional liaisons for minority, tribal, and low-income communities
- § 4370j. — Municipal Ombudsman
SUBCHAPTER IV — FEDERAL PERMITTING IMPROVEMENT 13 sections
- § 4370m. — Definitions
- § 4370m–1. — Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council
- § 4370m–2. — Permitting process improvement
- § 4370m–3. — Interstate compacts
- § 4370m–4. — Coordination of required reviews
- § 4370m–5. — Delegated State permitting programs
- § 4370m–6. — Litigation, judicial review, and savings provision
- § 4370m–7. — Reports
- § 4370m–8. — Funding for governance, oversight, and processing of environmental reviews and permits
- § 4370m–9. — Application
- § 4370m–10. — GAO report
- § 4370m–11. — Savings provision
- § 4370m–12. — Repealed. Pub. L. 117–58, div. G, title VIII, § 70801(h), Nov. 15, 2021, 135 Stat. 1294