---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7671n"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7671n"
heading: "Authority of Administrator"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7671n"
units:
  - "Chapter 85 — Air Pollution Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter VI — Stratospheric Ozone Protection"
---

# §7671n. Authority of Administrator


If, in the [Administrator](/usc/42/7602.md?p=a)’s judgment, any substance, practice, process, or activity may reasonably be anticipated to affect the stratosphere, especially ozone in the stratosphere, and such effect may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare, the [Administrator](/usc/42/7602.md?p=a) shall promptly promulgate regulations respecting the control of such substance, practice, process, or activity, and shall submit notice of the proposal and promulgation of such regulation to the Congress.


## Source credit

(July 14, 1955, ch. 360, title VI, § 615, as added Pub. L. 101–549, title VI, § 602(a), Nov. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 2669.)