---
kind: "unit"
title: "49"
title_heading: "Transportation"
key: "stI/ch3/schI"
level: "subchapter"
label: "Subchapter I"
heading: "Duties of the Secretary of Transportation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/49/stI-ch3-schI"
sections_count: 15
---

# Subchapter I — Duties of the Secretary of Transportation

Title 49 — Transportation › Subtitle I — Department of Transportation › Chapter 3 — General Duties and Powers

## Sections

- [§301. Leadership, consultation, and cooperation](/usc/49/301.md)
- [§302. Policy standards for transportation](/usc/49/302.md)
- [§303. Policy on lands, wildlife and waterfowl refuges, and historic sites](/usc/49/303.md)
- [§303a. Development of water transportation](/usc/49/303a.md)
- [§304. Application of categorical exclusions for multimodal projects](/usc/49/304.md)
- [§304a. Accelerated decisionmaking in environmental reviews](/usc/49/304a.md)
- [§305. Transportation investment standards and criteria](/usc/49/305.md)
- [§306. Prohibited discrimination](/usc/49/306.md)
- [§307. Improving State and Federal agency engagement in environmental reviews](/usc/49/307.md)
- [§308. Reports](/usc/49/308.md)
- [§309. High-speed ground transportation](/usc/49/309.md)
- [§310. Aligning Federal environmental reviews](/usc/49/310.md)
- [§311. Congressional notification requirements](/usc/49/311.md)
- [§312. Alternative timing system](/usc/49/312.md)
- [§313. Nontraditional and Emerging Transportation Technology Council](/usc/49/313.md)