42 USC Ch. 55: Front Matter
From Title 42-THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARECHAPTER 55-NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
CHAPTER 55-NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
Sec.
4321.
Congressional declaration of purpose.
SUBCHAPTER I-POLICIES AND GOALS
4331.
Congressional declaration of national environmental policy.
4332.
Cooperation of agencies; reports; availability of information; recommendations; international and national coordination of efforts.
4333.
Conformity of administrative procedures to national environmental policy.
4334.
Other statutory obligations of agencies.
4335.
Efforts supplemental to existing authorizations.
SUBCHAPTER II-COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
4341.
Reports to Congress; recommendations for legislation.
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
4361.
Plan for research, development, and demonstration.
4361a.
Budget projections in annual revisions of plan for research, development, and demonstration.
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.
(a)
Appointments for educational programs.
(b)
Post-doctoral research fellows.
(c)
Non-Government research associates.
(d)
Women and minority groups.
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.
(a)
Coordination, etc., with research needs and priorities of program offices and Environmental Protection Agency.
(b)
Program offices subject to coverage.
(c)
Report to Congress; contents.
4365.
Science Advisory Board.
(a)
Establishment; requests for advice by Administrator of Environmental Protection Agency and Congressional committees.
(b)
Membership; Chairman; meetings; qualifications of members.
(c)
Review and comment on plan for research, development, and demonstration and annual revisions; transmission to Congress.
(d)
Repealed.
(e)
Proposed environmental criteria document, standard, limitation, or regulation; functions respecting in conjunction with Administrator.
(f)
Utilization of technical and scientific capabilities of Federal agencies and national environmental laboratories for determining adequacy of scientific and technical basis of proposed criteria document, etc.
(g)
Member committees and investigative panels; establishment; chairmenship.
(h)
Appointment and compensation of secretary and other personnel; compensation of members.
(i)
Consultation and coordination with Scientific Advisory Panel.
4366.
Identification and coordination of research, development, and demonstration activities.
(a)
Consultation and cooperation of Administrator of Environmental Protection Agency with heads of Federal agencies; inclusion of activities in annual revisions of plan for research, etc.
(b)
Coordination of programs by Administrator.
(c)
Joint study by Council on Environmental Quality in consultation with Office of Science and Technology Policy for coordination of activities; report to President and Congress; report by President to Congress on implementation of joint study and report.
4366a.
Development of data base of environmental research articles indexed by geographic location.
(a)
Research journals.
(b)
Index.
(c)
Purchase of information.
(d)
Revising list.
(e)
Specific location of research projects.
4367.
Reporting requirements of financial interests of officers and employees of Environmental Protection Agency.
(a)
Covered officers and employees.
(b)
Implementation of requirements by Administrator.
(c)
Exemption of positions by Administrator.
(d)
Violations; penalties.
4368.
Grants to qualified citizens groups.
4368a.
Utilization of talents of older Americans in projects of pollution prevention, abatement, and control.
(a)
Technical assistance to environmental agencies.
(b)
Pre-award certifications.
(c)
Prior appropriation Acts.
4368b.
General assistance program.
(a)
Short title.
(b)
Purposes.
(c)
Definitions.
(d)
General assistance program.
(e)
No reduction in amounts.
(f)
Expenditure of general assistance.
(g)
Procedures.
(h)
Authorization.
(i)
Report to Congress.
4369.
Miscellaneous reports.
(a)
Availability to Congressional committees.
(b)
Transmittal of jurisdictional information.
(c)
Comment by Government agencies and the public.
(d)
Transmittal of research information to the Department of Energy.
4369a.
Reports on environmental research and development activities of Agency.
(a)
Reports to keep Congressional committees fully and currently informed.
(b)
Annual reports relating requested funds to activities to be carried out with those funds.
4370.
Reimbursement for use of facilities.
(a)
Authority to allow outside groups or individuals to use research and test facilities; reimbursement.
(b)
Rules and regulations.
(c)
Waiver of reimbursement by Administrator.
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.
(a)
Assessment and collection.
(b)
Amount of fees and charges.
(c)
Limitation on fees and charges.
(d)
Rule of construction.
(e)
Uses of fees.
4370d.
Percentage of Federal funding for organizations owned by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.
Chapter Referred to in Other Sections
This chapter is referred to in sections 1437x, 2243, 3547, 4374, 4852, 5159, 5304, 6508, 7276c, 7616, 7916, 8302, 10133, 10134, 10161, 10165, 10168, 10196, 10247, 12838 of this title; title 7 section 2814; title 10 section 2391; title 15 sections 719f, 719h, 793; title 16 sections 410hh, 460ii–4, 460qq, 470h–2, 497b, 544o, 590h, 797d, 839d, 1261, 1434, 1455, 1536, 1602, 1604, 2705, 3164, 3232, 3233, 3636, 4403, 4404; title 21 section 343; title 23 sections 103, 108, 117, 134, 323; title 25 section 640d–26; title 30 sections 185, 1292; title 33 sections 59c–2, 59j–1, 59k, 59n, 59o, 59y, 59bb, 59cc, 59dd, 59ff, 59gg, 59hh, 1293a, 1344, 1371, 1505; title 43 sections 390h–1, 421h, 1351, 1577, 1597, 1638, 1652, 1723, 1866, 1904, 2006, 2223, 7276c; title 45 sections 917, 1010, 1207, 1212; title 49 sections 5304, 5309, 70304.