---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 7301"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "7301"
heading: "Environmental impact statements"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/7301"
units:
  - "Chapter 84 — Department of Energy"
  - "Subchapter VII — Transitional, Savings, and Conforming Provisions"
---

# §7301. Environmental impact statements


The transfer of functions under subchapters III and IV of this chapter shall not affect the validity of any draft [environmental impact statement](/usc/42/4336e.md?p=6) published before October 1, 1977.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–91, title VII, § 713, Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 610.)