---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 18726"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "18726"
heading: "Savings provision"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/18726"
units:
  - "Chapter 162 — Energy Infrastructure"
  - "Subchapter I — Grid Infrastructure and Resiliency"
  - "Part B — Cybersecurity"
---

# §18726. Savings provision


Nothing in this part affects the authority, existing on the day before November 15, 2021, of any other Federal [department](/usc/42/18701.md?p=1) or [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), including the authority provided to the [Secretary](/usc/42/18701.md?p=3) of Homeland Security and the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security [Agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) in title XXII of the Homeland Security Act of 2002 ([6 U.S.C. 651](/usc/6/651.md) et seq.).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 117–58, div. D, title I, § 40127, Nov. 15, 2021, 135 Stat. 957.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The Homeland Security Act of 2002, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 107–296, Nov. 25, 2002, 116 Stat. 2135. Title XXII of the Act is classified generally to subchapter XVIII (§651 et seq.) of chapter 1 of Title 6, Domestic Security. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 101 of Title 6 and Tables.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Wage Rate Requirements

For provisions relating to rates of wages to be paid to laborers and mechanics on projects for construction, alteration, or repair work funded under div. D or an amendment by div. D of Pub. L. 117–58, including authority of Secretary of Labor, see section 18851 of this title.