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

# §4336f. Project sponsor opt-in fees for environmental reviews

- (a) **Process—**
  - (1) **Project sponsor—** A [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) sponsor that intends to pay a fee under this section for the preparation, or supervision of the preparation, of an [environmental assessment](/usc/42/4336e.md?p=4) or [environmental impact statement](/usc/42/4336e.md?p=6) for a [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) shall submit to the [Council](/usc/42/4336e.md?p=3)—
    - (A) a description of the [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2); and
    - (B) a declaration of whether the [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) sponsor intends to prepare the [environmental assessment](/usc/42/4336e.md?p=4) or [environmental impact statement](/usc/42/4336e.md?p=6) under [section 4336a(f) of this title](/usc/42/4336a.md?p=f).
  - (2) **Council on Environmental Quality—** Not later than 15 days after the date on which the [Council](/usc/42/4336e.md?p=3) receives information described in [paragraph (1)](#a-1) from a [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) sponsor, the [Council](/usc/42/4336e.md?p=3) shall provide to the [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) sponsor notice of the amount of the fee to be paid under this section, as determined under [subsection (b)](#b).
  - (3) **Payment of fee—** A [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) sponsor may pay a fee under this section after receipt of the notice described in [paragraph (2)](#a-2).
  - (4) **Deadline for environmental reviews for which a fee is paid—** Notwithstanding [section 4336a(g)(1) of this title](/usc/42/4336a.md?p=g-1)—
    - (A) an [environmental assessment](/usc/42/4336e.md?p=4) for which a fee is paid under this section shall be completed not later than 180 days after the date on which the fee is paid; and
    - (B) an [environmental impact statement](/usc/42/4336e.md?p=6) for which a fee is paid under this section shall be completed not later than 1 year after the date of publication of the notice of intent to prepare the [environmental impact statement](/usc/42/4336e.md?p=6).
- (b) **Fee amount—** The amount of a fee under this section shall be—
  - (1) 125 percent of the anticipated costs to prepare the [environmental assessment](/usc/42/4336e.md?p=4) or [environmental impact statement](/usc/42/4336e.md?p=6); and
  - (2) in the case of an [environmental assessment](/usc/42/4336e.md?p=4) or [environmental impact statement](/usc/42/4336e.md?p=6) to be prepared in whole or in part by a [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) sponsor under [section 4336a(f) of this title](/usc/42/4336a.md?p=f), 125 percent of the anticipated costs to supervise preparation of, and, as applicable, prepare, the [environmental assessment](/usc/42/4336e.md?p=4) or [environmental impact statement](/usc/42/4336e.md?p=6).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–190, title I, § 112, as added Pub. L. 119–21, title VI, § 60026, July 4, 2025, 139 Stat. 157.)