---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 9167"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "9167"
heading: "Severability"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/9167"
units:
  - "Chapter 99 — Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion"
  - "Subchapter IV — Miscellaneous Provisions"
---

# §9167. Severability


If any provision of this chapter or any [application](/usc/42/9102.md?p=4) thereof is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the chapter, or any other [application](/usc/42/9102.md?p=4), shall not be affected thereby.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–320, title IV, § 407, Aug. 3, 1980, 94 Stat. 1000.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 96–320, Aug. 3, 1980, 94 Stat. 974, known as the Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Act of 1980, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 9101 of this title and Tables.