Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73
§4751 Environmental impact analyses
Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 67— - AQUATIC NUISANCE PREVENTION AND CONTROL › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER V— - COOPERATIVE ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSES › § 4751
Summary
The Secretary of State, after talking with the Council on Environmental Quality, is urged to start talks with Canada and Mexico to set up a system where the three governments will jointly review and share environmental impact studies for big U.S. federal actions that cross borders and affect the environment and people in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
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Title 16, §4751
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The Secretary of State, in consultation with the Council on Environmental Quality, is encouraged to enter into negotiations with the governments of Canada and Mexico to provide for reciprocal cooperative environmental impact analysis of major Federal actions which have significant transboundary effects on the quality of the human environment in the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
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1996—Pub. L. 104–332 made technical amendment to Pub. L. 101–646, § 1401, which enacted this section.
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16 U.S.C. § 4751
Title 16 — Conservation
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73