---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 3810"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "3810"
heading: "Relationship to other laws"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/3810"
units:
  - "Chapter 64 — Methane Transportation Research, Development, and Demonstration"
---

# §3810. Relationship to other laws

- (a) **Modification or waiver—** Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as authorizing the [Secretary](/usc/15/3802.md?p=b) or any other official with respect to any activity pursuant to this chapter to modify or waive the application of any Federal, [State](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2) or local laws dealing with the production, transportation, storage, safety, use or pricing of [methane](/usc/15/3802.md?p=a).
- (b) **Promulgation of rules—** Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as granting the [Secretary](/usc/15/3802.md?p=b) or any other Federal official any authority to promulgate rules of general application to regulate the production, transportation, storage, safety, use or pricing of [methane](/usc/15/3802.md?p=a) as a transportation fuel or [vehicles](/usc/15/3802.md?p=e) which use [methane](/usc/15/3802.md?p=a) as a transportation fuel.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–512, § 11, Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2833.)