---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 4336b"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "4336b"
heading: "Programmatic environmental document"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/4336b"
units:
  - "Chapter 55 — National Environmental Policy"
  - "Subchapter I — Policies and Goals"
---

# §4336b. Programmatic environmental document


When an [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) prepares a [programmatic environmental document](/usc/42/4336e.md?p=11) for which judicial review was available, the [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) may rely on the analysis included in the [programmatic environmental document](/usc/42/4336e.md?p=11) in a subsequent [environmental document](/usc/42/4336e.md?p=5) for related actions as follows:

- (1) Within 5 years and without additional review of the analysis in the [programmatic environmental document](/usc/42/4336e.md?p=11), unless there are substantial new circumstances or information about the significance of adverse effects that bear on the analysis.
- (2) After 5 years, so long as the [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) reevaluates the analysis in the [programmatic environmental document](/usc/42/4336e.md?p=11) and any underlying assumption to ensure reliance on the analysis remains valid.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–190, title I, § 108, as added Pub. L. 118–5, div. C, title III, § 321(b), June 3, 2023, 137 Stat. 43.)