Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 55 — National Environmental Policy
§ 4336b. Programmatic environmental document
Statutory text
When an agency prepares a programmatic environmental document for which judicial review was available, the agency may rely on the analysis included in the programmatic environmental document in a subsequent environmental document for related actions as follows:
Within 5 years and without additional review of the analysis in the programmatic environmental document, unless there are substantial new circumstances or information about the significance of adverse effects that bear on the analysis.
After 5 years, so long as the agency reevaluates the analysis in the programmatic environmental document and any underlying assumption to ensure reliance on the analysis remains valid.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
Pub. L. 91–190 title I § 108 · 83 Stat. 852
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 4336b
(Pub. L. 91–190, title I, § 108, as added Pub. L. 118–5, div. C, title III, § 321(b), June 3, 2023, 137 Stat. 43.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 91–190, title I, § 108, as added Pub. L. 118–5, div. C, title III, § 321(b), June 3, 2023, 137 Stat. 43.)
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Credits
(Pub. L. 91–190, title I, § 108, as added Pub. L. 118–5, div. C, title III, § 321(b), , 137 Stat. 43.)