---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 4370m–3"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "4370m–3"
heading: "Interstate compacts"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/4370m-3"
units:
  - "Chapter 55 — National Environmental Policy"
  - "Subchapter IV — Federal Permitting Improvement"
---

# §4370m–3. Interstate compacts

- (a) **In general—** The consent of Congress is given for 3 or more contiguous [States](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) to enter into an interstate [compact](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=4) establishing regional infrastructure development [agencies](/usc/42/4370m.md?p=1) to facilitate [authorization](/usc/42/4370m.md?p=3) and review of [covered projects](/usc/42/4370m.md?p=6-A), under [State](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) law or in the exercise of delegated permitting authority described under [section 4370m–5 of this title](/usc/42/4370m–5.md), that will advance infrastructure development, production, and generation within the [States](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14) that are parties to the [compact](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=4).
- (b) **Regional infrastructure—** For the purpose of this subchapter, a regional infrastructure development [agency](/usc/42/4370m.md?p=1) referred to in [subsection (a)](#a) shall have the same authorities and responsibilities of a [State agency](/usc/42/300s–3.md?p=12).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 114–94, div. D, title XLI, § 41004, Dec. 4, 2015, 129 Stat. 1755.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was enacted as part of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act, also known as the FAST Act, and not as part of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 which comprises this chapter.