---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7301"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7301"
heading: "Environmental impact statements"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7301"
units:
  - "Chapter 84 — Department of Energy"
  - "Subchapter VII — Transitional, Savings, and Conforming Provisions"
---

# §7301. Environmental impact statements


The transfer of functions under subchapters III and IV of this chapter shall not affect the validity of any draft environmental impact statement published before October 1, 1977.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–91, title VII, § 713, Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 610.)