---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 16136"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "16136"
heading: "Effect of part"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/16136"
units:
  - "Chapter 149 — National Energy Policy and Programs"
  - "Subchapter VII — Vehicles and Fuels"
  - "Part F — Diesel Emissions Reduction"
---

# §16136. Effect of part


Nothing in this part affects any authority under the Clean Air Act ([42 U.S.C. 7401](/usc/42/7401.md) et seq.) in existence on the day before August 8, 2005.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–58, title VII, § 796, Aug. 8, 2005, 119 Stat. 844.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Clean Air Act, referred to in text, is act July 14, 1955, ch. 360, 69 Stat. 322, which is classified generally to chapter 85 (§ 7401 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 7401 of this title and Tables.