---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 4375"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "4375"
heading: "Office of Environmental Quality Management Fund"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/4375"
units:
  - "Chapter 56 — Environmental Quality Improvement"
---

# §4375. Office of Environmental Quality Management Fund

- (a) **Establishment; financing of study contracts and Federal interagency environmental projects—** There is established an [Office](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=1) of Environmental Quality Management [Fund](/usc/42/12854.md?p=3) (hereinafter referred to as the “[Fund](/usc/42/12854.md?p=3)”) to receive advance payments from other agencies or accounts that may be used solely to finance—
  - (1) study contracts that are jointly sponsored by the [Office](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=1) and one or more other Federal agencies; and
  - (2) Federal interagency environmental [projects](/usc/42/11360.md?p=20) (including [task forces](/usc/42/242q–4.md?p=3)) in which the [Office](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=1) participates.
- (b) **Study contract or project initiative—** Any study contract or [project](/usc/42/11360.md?p=20) that is to be financed under [subsection (a)](#a) may be initiated only with the approval of the [Director](/usc/42/5061.md?p=1).
- (c) **Regulations—** The [Director](/usc/42/5061.md?p=1) shall promulgate regulations setting forth policies and procedures for operation of the [Fund](/usc/42/12854.md?p=3).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 91–224, title II, § 206, as added Pub. L. 98–581, § 2, Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 3093.)