§4344 — Title 42 The Public Health and Welfare | U.S. Code

Summary

The Council must help the President prepare the Environmental Quality Report. It must collect up-to-date, reliable information about current and future environmental conditions and analyze whether trends could harm the Nation’s environmental goals. The Council must review federal programs and tell the President how they affect those goals, and it must develop and suggest national policies to improve environmental quality. It must do research, studies, surveys, and investigations of ecosystems, track changes in plants and animals and their causes, report at least once each year to the President, and provide studies or advice when the President asks.

Title 42, §4344

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It shall be the duty and function of the Council—

(1)to assist and advise the President in the preparation of the Environmental Quality Report required by section 4341 11 See References in Text note below. of this title;

(2)to gather timely and authoritative information concerning the conditions and trends in the quality of the environment both current and prospective, to analyze and interpret such information for the purpose of determining whether such conditions and trends are interfering, or are likely to interfere, with the achievement of the policy set forth in subchapter I of this chapter, and to compile and submit to the President studies relating to such conditions and trends;

(3)to review and appraise the various programs and activities of the Federal Government in the light of the policy set forth in subchapter I of this chapter for the purpose of determining the extent to which such programs and activities are contributing to the achievement of such policy, and to make recommendations to the President with respect thereto;

(4)to develop and recommend to the President national policies to foster and promote the improvement of environmental quality to meet the conservation, social, economic, health, and other requirements and goals of the Nation;

(5)to conduct investigations, studies, surveys, research, and analyses relating to ecological systems and environmental quality;

(6)to document and define changes in the natural environment, including the plant and animal systems, and to accumulate necessary data and other information for a continuing analysis of these changes or trends and an interpretation of their underlying causes;

(7)to report at least once each year to the President on the state and condition of the environment; and

(8)to make and furnish such studies, reports thereon, and recommendations with respect to matters of policy and legislation as the President may request.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

section 4341 of this title, referred to in par. (1), was omitted from the Code.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

So much of functions of Council on Environmental Quality under par. (5) of this section as pertains to ecological systems transferred to Administrator of Environmental Protection Agency by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1970, § 2(a)(5), eff. Dec. 2, 1970, 35 F.R. 15623, 84 Stat. 2086, set out under section 4321 of this title.

§4344 Duties and functions