---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 5820"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "5820"
heading: "Coordination with environmental efforts"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/5820"
units:
  - "Chapter 73 — Development of Energy Sources"
  - "Subchapter I — Energy Research and Development Administration"
---

# §5820. Coordination with environmental efforts


The [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) is authorized to establish programs to utilize research and development performed by other Federal [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) to minimize the adverse environmental effects of energy [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2). The [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) of the Environmental Protection [Agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1), as well as other affected [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) and departments, shall cooperate fully with the [Administrator](/usc/42/4005.md?p=1) in establishing and maintaining such programs, and in establishing appropriate interagency agreements to develop cooperative programs and to avoid unnecessary duplication.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 93–438, title I, § 110, Oct. 11, 1974, 88 Stat. 1242.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Transfer of Functions

Energy Research and Development Administration terminated and functions vested by law in Administrator thereof transferred to Secretary of Energy (unless otherwise specifically provided) by sections 7151(a) and 7293 of this title.

### Research Applied to National Needs; Coordination of Energy Research and Development Activities

Pub. L. 94–471, § 2(e)(3), Oct. 11, 1976, 90 Stat. 2053, provided that: “In the conduct of the energy research and development activities under the ‘Research Applied to National Needs’ category, the National Science Foundation shall coordinate all new energy research project awards with the Administrator of the Energy Research and Development Administration or his designee.”

Similar provisions were contained in Pub. L. 94–86, § 5, Aug. 9, 1975, 89 Stat. 430.