Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 55 — National Environmental Policy
§ 4342. Establishment; membership; Chairman; appointments
Statutory text
There is created in the Executive Office of the President a Council on Environmental Quality (hereinafter referred to as the “Council”). The Council shall be composed of three members who shall be appointed by the President to serve at his pleasure, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The President shall designate one of the members of the Council to serve as Chairman. Each member shall be a person who, as a result of his training, experience, and attainments, is exceptionally well qualified to analyze and interpret environmental trends and information of all kinds; to appraise programs and activities of the Federal Government in the light of the policy set forth in subchapter I of this chapter; to be conscious of and responsive to the scientific, economic, social, esthetic, and cultural needs and interests of the Nation; and to formulate and recommend national policies to promote the improvement of the quality of the environment.
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 II § 202 · 83 Stat. 852
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 4342
(Pub. L. 91–190, title II, § 202, Jan. 1, 1970, 83 Stat. 854.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 91–190, title II, § 202, Jan. 1, 1970, 83 Stat. 854.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 202. There is created in the Executive Office of the President a Council on Environmental Quality (hereinafter referred to as the “Council”). The Council shall be composed of three members who shall be appointed by the President to serve at his pleasure, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The President shall designate one of the members of the Council to serve as Chairman. Each member shall be a person who, as a result of his training, experience, and attainments, is exceptionally well qualified to analyze and interpret environmental trends and information of all kinds: to appraise programs and activities of the Federal Government in the light of the policy set forth in title X of this Act; to be conscious of and responsive to the scientific, economic, social, esthetic, and cultural needs and interests of the Nation; and to formulate and recommend national policies to promote the improvement of the quality of the environment.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Council on Environmental Quality; Reduction of Members
Provisions stating that notwithstanding this section, the Council was to consist of one member, appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, serving as chairman and exercising all powers, functions, and duties of the Council, were contained in the Department of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006, Pub. L. 109–54, title III, , 119 Stat. 543, and were repeated in provisions of subsequent appropriations acts which are not set out in the Code. Similar provisions were also contained in the following prior appropriations acts:
Pub. L. 108–447, div. I, title III, , 118 Stat. 3332.
Pub. L. 108–199, div. G, title III, , 118 Stat. 408.
Pub. L. 108–7, div. K, title III, , 117 Stat. 514.
Pub. L. 107–73, title III, , 115 Stat. 686.
Pub. L. 106–377, § 1(a)(1) [title III], , 114 Stat. 1441, 1441A–45.
Pub. L. 106–74, title III, , 113 Stat. 1084.