---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 4375"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "4375"
heading: "Office of Environmental Quality Management Fund"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/4375"
units:
  - "Chapter 56 — Environmental Quality Improvement"
---

# §4375. Office of Environmental Quality Management Fund

- (a) **Establishment; financing of study contracts and Federal interagency environmental projects—** There is established an Office of Environmental Quality Management Fund (hereinafter referred to as the “Fund”) to receive advance payments from other [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) or accounts that may be used solely to finance—
  - (1) study contracts that are jointly sponsored by the Office and one or more other Federal [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1); and
  - (2) Federal interagency environmental [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) (including [task forces](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=3)) in which the Office participates.
- (b) **Study contract or project initiative—** Any study contract or [project](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) that is to be financed under [subsection (a)](#a) may be initiated only with the approval of the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5).
- (c) **Regulations—** The [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) shall promulgate regulations setting forth policies and procedures for operation of the Fund.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–224, title II, § 206, as added Pub. L. 98–581, § 2, Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 3093.)