Title 42, The Public Health and WelfareRelease 119-102
§4336b Programmatic Environmental Document
Title 42 › CHAPTER 55 — NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY › SUBCHAPTER I — POLICIES AND GOALS › § 4336b
Summary
Agencies may reuse the analysis in a programmatic environmental document for related actions: for 5 years without extra review unless important new facts or conditions change the likely harms; after 5 years they must recheck the analysis and assumptions.
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Title 42, §4336b
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When an agency prepares a programmatic environmental document for which judicial review was available, the agency may rely on the analysis included in the programmatic environmental document in a subsequent environmental document for related actions as follows:
(1)Within 5 years and without additional review of the analysis in the programmatic environmental document, unless there are substantial new circumstances or information about the significance of adverse effects that bear on the analysis.
(2)After 5 years, so long as the agency reevaluates the analysis in the programmatic environmental document and any underlying assumption to ensure reliance on the analysis remains valid.
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42 U.S.C. § 4336b
Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102