Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 55 — National Environmental Policy
§ 4344. Duties and functions
Statutory text
It shall be the duty and function of the Council—
to assist and advise the President in the preparation of the Environmental Quality Report required by section 4341 1 of this title;
to gather timely and authoritative information concerning the conditions and trends in the quality of the environment both current and prospective, to analyze and interpret such information for the purpose of determining whether such conditions and trends are interfering, or are likely to interfere, with the achievement of the policy set forth in subchapter I of this chapter, and to compile and submit to the President studies relating to such conditions and trends;
to review and appraise the various programs and activities of the Federal Government in the light of the policy set forth in subchapter I of this chapter for the purpose of determining the extent to which such programs and activities are contributing to the achievement of such policy, and to make recommendations to the President with respect thereto;
to develop and recommend to the President national policies to foster and promote the improvement of environmental quality to meet the conservation, social, economic, health, and other requirements and goals of the Nation;
to conduct investigations, studies, surveys, research, and analyses relating to ecological systems and environmental quality;
to document and define changes in the natural environment, including the plant and animal systems, and to accumulate necessary data and other information for a continuing analysis of these changes or trends and an interpretation of their underlying causes;
to report at least once each year to the President on the state and condition of the environment; and
to make and furnish such studies, reports thereon, and recommendations with respect to matters of policy and legislation as the President may request.
Footnotes
- 1 See References in Text note below.
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 § 204 · 83 Stat. 852
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 4344
(Pub. L. 91–190, title II, § 204, Jan. 1, 1970, 83 Stat. 855.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 91–190, title II, § 204, Jan. 1, 1970, 83 Stat. 855.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 204. It shall be the duty and function of the Council— Duties and functions. (1) to assist and advise the President in the preparation of the Environmental Quality Report required by section 201; (2) to gather timely and authoritative information concerning the conditions and trends in the quality of the environment both current and prospective, to analyze and interpret such information for the purpose of determining whether such conditions and trends are interfering, or are likely to interfere, with the achievement of the policy set forth in title I of this Act, and to compile and submit to the President studies relating to such conditions and trends; (3) to review and appraise the various programs and activities of the Federal Government in the light of the policy set forth in title I of this Act for the purpose of determining the extent to which such programs and activities are contributing to the achievement of such policy, and to make recommendations to the President with respect thereto; (4) to develop and recommend to the President national policies to foster and promote the improvement of environmental quality to meet the conservation, social, economic, health, and other requirements and goals of the Nation; (5) to conduct investigations, studies, surveys, research, and analyses relating to ecological systems and environmental quality; (6) to document and define changes in the natural environment, including the plant and animal systems, and to accumulate necessary data and other information for a continuing analysis of these changes or trends and an interpretation of their underlying causes; (7) to report at least once each year to the President on the Report to President. state and condition of the environment; and (8) to make and furnish such studies, reports thereon, and recommendations with respect to matters of policy and legislation as the President may request.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
Section 4341 of this title, referred to in par. (1), was omitted from the Code.
Executive Documents
Transfer of Functions
So much of functions of Council on Environmental Quality under par. (5) of this section as pertains to ecological systems transferred to Administrator of Environmental Protection Agency by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1970, § 2(a)(5), eff. , 35 F.R. 15623, 84 Stat. 2086, set out under section 4321 of this title.