---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 9212"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "9212"
heading: "General provisions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/9212"
units:
  - "Chapter 100 — Wind Energy Systems"
---

# §9212. General provisions

- (a) **Additional projects or activities—** Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as preventing the [Secretary](/usc/42/9202.md?p=7) from undertaking [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) or activities in addition to those specified in this chapter if such [projects](/usc/42/13641.md?p=2) or activities appropriately further the purposes set forth in this subsection.[^1]
- (b) **Application to States, territories and possessions—** This chapter applies to each of the several [States](/usc/42/2021b.md?p=14), the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the territories and possessions of the United States including the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “chapter.”

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–345, § 13, Sept. 8, 1980, 94 Stat. 1146.)

## Notes

### Executive Documents

### Termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

For termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, see note set out preceding section 1681 of Title 48, Territories and Insular Possessions.