---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 U.S.C. § 3063"
title: "18"
title_heading: "Crimes and Criminal Procedure"
number: "3063"
heading: "Powers of Environmental Protection Agency"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/18/3063"
units:
  - "Part II — Criminal Procedure"
  - "Chapter 203 — Arrest and Commitment"
---

# §3063. Powers of Environmental Protection Agency

- (a) Upon designation by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection [Agency](/usc/18/6.md), any law enforcement [officer](/usc/18/202.md?p=c) of the Environmental Protection [Agency](/usc/18/6.md) with responsibility for the investigation of criminal violations of a law administered by the Environmental Protection [Agency](/usc/18/6.md), may—
  - (1) carry [firearms](/usc/18/249.md?p=c-3);
  - (2) execute and serve any warrant or other processes issued under the authority of the [United States](/usc/18/5.md); and
  - (3) make arrests without warrant for—
    - (A) any offense against the [United States](/usc/18/5.md) committed in such [officer](/usc/18/202.md?p=c)’s presence; or
    - (B) any felony offense against the [United States](/usc/18/5.md) if such [officer](/usc/18/202.md?p=c) has probable cause to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing that felony offense.
- (b) The powers granted under [subsection (a)](#a) of this section shall be exercised in accordance with guidelines approved by the Attorney General.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 100–582, § 4(a), Nov. 1, 1988, 102 Stat. 2958.)