---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 4370i"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "4370i"
heading: "Regional liaisons for minority, tribal, and low-income communities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/4370i"
units:
  - "Chapter 55 — National Environmental Policy"
  - "Subchapter III — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §4370i. Regional liaisons for minority, tribal, and low-income communities

- (a) **In general—** The [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) of the Environmental Protection [Agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) (referred to in this section as the “[Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1)”) shall assign at least one employee in each regional office of the Environmental Protection [Agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) to serve as a liaison to minority, Tribal, and low-income communities in the relevant region.
- (b) **Public identification—** The [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) shall identify each regional liaison assigned under [subsection (a)](#a) on the internet website of—
  - (1) the relevant regional office of the Environmental Protection [Agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1); and
  - (2) the Office of Environmental Justice of the Environmental Protection [Agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 115–270, title IV, § 4305, Oct. 23, 2018, 132 Stat. 3883.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the America’s Water Infrastructure Act of 2018, and not as part of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 which comprises this chapter.