---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 17217"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "17217"
heading: "Applicability of other laws"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/17217"
units:
  - "Chapter 152 — Energy Independence and Security"
  - "Subchapter V — Accelerated Research and Development"
  - "Part C — Water Power Research and Development"
---

# §17217. Applicability of other laws


Nothing in this part shall be construed as waiving, modifying, or superseding the applicability of any requirement under any environmental or other Federal or [State](/usc/42/17151.md?p=6) law.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 110–140, title VI, § 638, as added Pub. L. 116–260, div. Z, title III, § 3001(a), Dec. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 2486.)