---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7431"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7431"
heading: "Land use authority"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7431"
units:
  - "Chapter 85 — Air Pollution Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter I — Programs and Activities"
  - "Part A — Air Quality and Emission Limitations"
---

# §7431. Land use authority


Nothing in this chapter constitutes an infringement on the existing authority of counties and cities to plan or control land use, and nothing in this chapter provides or transfers authority over such land use.


## Source credit

(July 14, 1955, ch. 360, title I, § 131, as added Pub. L. 101–549, title VIII, § 805, Nov. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 2689.)