---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 4334"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "4334"
heading: "Other statutory obligations of agencies"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/4334"
units:
  - "Chapter 55 — National Environmental Policy"
  - "Subchapter I — Policies and Goals"
---

# §4334. Other statutory obligations of agencies


Nothing in section [4332](/usc/42/4332.md) or [4333](/usc/42/4333.md) of this title shall in any way affect the specific statutory obligations of any Federal [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) (1) to comply with criteria or standards of environmental quality, (2) to coordinate or consult with any other Federal or [State agency](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=12), or (3) to act, or refrain from acting contingent upon the recommendations or certification of any other Federal or [State agency](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=12).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–190, title I, § 104, Jan. 1, 1970, 83 Stat. 854.)