42 U.S.C. § 4372: Office of Environmental…

Summary

Creates an Office of Environmental Quality inside the President’s Executive Office. The Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality is the Office Director. The President appoints a Deputy Director with the Senate’s approval. The Deputy Director’s pay cannot be higher than the annual rate paid to the Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget. The Director can hire staff, experts, and consultants needed to do the work. The Director may hire up to 10 specialists outside the usual federal hiring and pay rules, but none can be paid more than the GS‑18 maximum under 5 U.S.C. 5332. The Director must help the President and federal agencies by staffing the Council, reviewing programs and major projects that affect environmental quality, improving monitoring and research, coordinating agency efforts, developing standards, and collecting and analyzing environmental data. The Director may contract with public or private groups and individuals without regard to 31 U.S.C. 3324(a),(b) and 41 U.S.C. 6101.

Title 42, §4372

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(a)Establishment; Director; Deputy Director (b) Compensation of Deputy Director (c) Employment of personnel, experts, and consultants; compensation

There is established in the Executive Office of the President an office to be known as the Office of Environmental Quality (hereafter in this chapter referred to as the “Office”). The Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality established by Public Law 91–190 shall be the Director of the Office. There shall be in the Office a Deputy Director who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.

(d)Duties and functions of Director (e) Authority of Director to contract

In carrying out his functions the Director shall assist and advise the President on policies and programs of the Federal Government affecting environmental quality by—

(1)providing the professional and administrative staff and support for the Council on Environmental Quality established by Public Law 91–190;

(2)assisting the Federal agencies and departments in appraising the effectiveness of existing and proposed facilities, programs, policies, and activities of the Federal Government, and those specific major projects designated by the President which do not require individual project authorization by Congress, which affect environmental quality;

(3)reviewing the adequacy of existing systems for monitoring and predicting environmental changes in order to achieve effective coverage and efficient use of research facilities and other resources;

(4)promoting the advancement of scientific knowledge of the effects of actions and technology on the environment and encourage the development of the means to prevent or reduce adverse effects that endanger the health and well-being of man;

(5)assisting in coordinating among the Federal departments and agencies those programs and activities which affect, protect, and improve environmental quality;

(6)assisting the Federal departments and agencies in the development and interrelationship of environmental quality criteria and standards established through the Federal Government;

(7)collecting, collating, analyzing, and interpreting data and information on environmental quality, ecological research, and evaluation.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Public Law 91–190, referred to in subsecs. (a), (c), and (d), is Pub. L. 91–190, Jan. 1, 1970, 83 Stat. 852, known as the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, which is classified generally to chapter 55 (§ 4321 et seq.) of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 4321 of this title and Tables. The General Schedule, referred to in subsec. (c), is set out under section 5332 of Title 5. Codification In subsec. (e), “section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31 and section 6101 of title 41” substituted for “section 3648 and 3709 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 529; 41 U.S.C. 5)” on authority of Pub. L. 97–258, § 4(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, which Act enacted Title 31, Money and Finance, and Pub. L. 111–350, § 6(c), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3854, which Act enacted Title 41, Public Contracts.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

References in Other Laws to GS–16, 17, or 18 Pay RatesReferences in laws to the rates of pay for GS–16, 17, or 18, or to maximum rates of pay under the General Schedule, to be considered references to rates payable under specified sections of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, see section 529 [title I, § 101(c)(1)] of Pub. L. 101–509, set out in a note under section 5376 of Title 5.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Functions vested by law (including reorganization plan) in Bureau of the Budget or Director of Bureau of the Budget transferred to President by section 101 of Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1970, eff. July 1, 1970, 35 F.R. 7959, 84 Stat. 2085, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. section 102 of Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1970, redesignated Bureau of the Budget as Office of Management and Budget.

§4372 Office of Environmental Quality