---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7615"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7615"
heading: "Separability"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7615"
units:
  - "Chapter 85 — Air Pollution Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter III — General Provisions"
---

# §7615. Separability


If any provision of this chapter, or the application of any provision of this chapter to any [person](/usc/42/7602.md?p=e) or circumstance, is held invalid, the application of such provision to other [persons](/usc/42/7602.md?p=e) or circumstances, and the remainder of this chapter shall not be affected thereby.


## Source credit

(July 14, 1955, ch. 360, title III, § 315, formerly § 12, as added Pub. L. 88–206, § 1, Dec. 17, 1963, 77 Stat. 401; renumbered § 305, Pub. L. 89–272, title I, § 101(4), Oct. 20, 1965, 79 Stat. 992; renumbered § 308 and amended, Pub. L. 90–148, § 2, Nov. 21, 1967, 81 Stat. 506; renumbered § 315, Pub. L. 91–604, § 12(a), Dec. 31, 1970, 84 Stat. 1705.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 1857k of this title.

### Amendments

1967—Pub. L. 90–148 reenacted section without change.