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15 U.S.C. § 793 — Protection of public health and environment
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**(a) Distribution of low sulfur fuel** Any allocation program provided for in [section 792 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section792&num=0&edition=prelim) or in the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973 [[15 U.S.C. 751](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section751&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.],11 See References in Text note below. shall, to the maximum extent practicable, include measures to assure that available low sulfur fuel will be distributed on a priority basis to those areas of the United States designated by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency as requiring low sulfur fuel to avoid or minimize adverse impact on public health.
**(b) Study of chronic effects of sulfur oxide emissions among exposed populations** In order to determine the health effects of emissions of sulfur oxides to the air resulting from any conversions to burning coal to which section 119 1 of the Clean Air Act [[42 U.S.C. 1857c–10](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1857c–10&num=0&edition=prelim)] applies, the Department of Health and Human Services shall, through the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and in cooperation with the Environmental Protection Agency, conduct a study of chronic effects among exposed populations. The sum of $3,500,000 is authorized to be appropriated for such a study. In order to assure that long-term studies can be conducted without interruption, such sums as are appropriated shall be available until expended.
**(c) Major Federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment**
(1) No action taken under the Clean Air Act [[42 U.S.C. 7401](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xh
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**(a) Distribution of low sulfur fuel** Any allocation program provided for in [section 792 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section792&num=0&edition=prelim) or in the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973 [[15 U.S.C. 751](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section751&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.],11 See References in Text note below. shall, to the maximum extent practicable, include measures to assure that available low sulfur fuel will be distributed on a priority basis to those areas of the United States designated by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency as requiring low sulfur fuel to avoid or minimize adverse impact on public health.
**(b) Study of chronic effects of sulfur oxide emissions among exposed populations** In order to determine the health effects of emissions of sulfur oxides to the air resulting from any conversions to burning coal to which section 119 1 of the Clean Air Act [[42 U.S.C. 1857c–10](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1857c–10&num=0&edition=prelim)] applies, the Department of Health and Human Services shall, through the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and in cooperation with the Environmental Protection Agency, conduct a study of chronic effects among exposed populations. The sum of $3,500,000 is authorized to be appropriated for such a study. In order to assure that long-term studies can be conducted without interruption, such sums as are appropriated shall be available until expended.
**(c) Major Federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment**
(1) No action taken under the Clean Air Act [[42 U.S.C. 7401](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section7401&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.] shall be deemed a major Federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment within the meaning of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 [[42 U.S.C. 4321](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section4321&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.].
(2) No action under [section 792 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section792&num=0&edition=prelim) for a period of one year after initiation of such action shall be deemed a major Federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment within the meaning of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 [[42 U.S.C. 4321](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section4321&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.]. However, before any action under [section 792 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section792&num=0&edition=prelim) that has a significant impact on the environment is taken, if practicable, or in any event within sixty days after such action is taken, an environmental evaluation with analysis equivalent to that required under section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act [[42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section4332/2/C&num=0&edition=prelim)], to the greatest extent practicable within this time constraint, shall be prepared and circulated to appropriate Federal, State, and local government agencies and to the public for a thirty-day comment period after which a public hearing shall be held upon request to review outstanding environmental issues. Such an evaluation shall not be required where the action in question has been preceded by compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act by the appropriate Federal agency. Any action taken under [section 792 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section792&num=0&edition=prelim) which will be in effect for more than a one-year period or any action to extend an action taken under [section 792 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section792&num=0&edition=prelim) to a total period of more than one year shall be subject to the full provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act, notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter.
**(d) Importation of hydroelectric energy** In order to expedite the prompt construction of facilities for the importation of hydroelectric energy thereby helping to reduce the shortage of petroleum products in the United States, the Federal Power Commission is hereby authorized and directed to issue a Presidential permit pursuant to Executive Order 10485 of September 3, 1953, for the construction, operation, maintenance, and connection of facilities for the transmission of electric energy at the borders of the United States without preparing an environmental impact statement pursuant to section 102 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 [[42 U.S.C. 4332](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section4332&num=0&edition=prelim)] for facilities for the transmission of electric energy between Canada and the United States in the vicinity of Fort Covington, New York.
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**(a) Powerplant and fuel burning installations** The Federal Energy Administrator—
(1) shall, by order, prohibit any powerplant, and
(2) may, by order, prohibit any major fuel burning installation, other than a powerplant,
from burning natural gas or petroleum products as its primary energy source, if the requirements of subsection (b) are met and if (A) the Federal Energy Administrator determines such powerplant or installation on June 22, 1974, had, or thereafter acquires or is designed with, the capability and necessary plant equipment to burn coal, or (B) such powerplant or installation is required to meet a design or construction requirement under subsection (c).
**(b) Prerequisites to issuance or effectiveness of orders prohibiting use of natural gas or petroleum products as primary energy source** The requirements referred to in subsection (a) are as follows:
(1) An order under subsection (a) may not be issued with respect to a powerplant or installation unless the Federal Energy Administrator finds (A) that the burning of coal by such plant or installation, in lieu of petroleum products or natural gas, is practicable and consistent with the purposes of this chapter, (B) that coal and coal transportation facilities will be available during the period the order is in effect, and (C) in the case of a powerplant, that the prohibition under subsection (a) will not impair the reliability of service in the area served by such plant. Such an order shall be rescinded or modified to the extent the Federal Energy Administrator determines that any requirement described in subparagraph (A), (B), or (C) of this paragraph is no longer met; and such an order may at any time be modified if the Federal Energy Administrator determines that such order, as modified, complies wi
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**(a)** The Congress, recognizing the profound impact of man’s activity on the interrelations of all components of the natural environment, particularly the profound influences of population growth, high-density urbanization, industrial expansion, resource exploitation, and new and expanding technological advances and recognizing further the critical importance of restoring and maintaining environmental quality to the overall welfare and development of man, declares that it is the continuing policy of the Federal Government, in cooperation with State and local governments, and other concerned public and private organizations, to use all practicable means and measures, including financial and technical assistance, in a manner calculated to foster and promote the general welfare, to create and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in productive harmony, and fulfill the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations of Americans.
**(b)** In order to carry out the policy set forth in this chapter, it is the continuing responsibility of the Federal Government to use all practicable means, consistent with other essential considerations of national policy, to improve and coordinate Federal plans, functions, programs, and resources to the end that the Nation may—
(1) fulfill the responsibilities of each generation as trustee of the environment for succeeding generations;
(2) assure for all Americans safe, healthful, productive, and esthetically and culturally pleasing surroundings;
(3) attain the widest range of beneficial uses of the environment without degradation, risk to health or safety, or other undesirable and unintended consequences;
(4) preserve important historic, cultural, and natural aspects of our national heritag
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### Statutory Notes
Section, Pub. L. 114–94, div. D, title XLI, § 41013, Dec. 4, 2015, 129 Stat. 1761, provided that this subchapter shall terminate 7 years after Dec. 4, 2015.
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**(a) Mandatory authorization order** After six months from June 21, 1938, no person shall export any natural gas from the United States to a foreign country or import any natural gas from a foreign country without first having secured an order of the Commission authorizing it to do so. The Commission shall issue such order upon application, unless, after opportunity for hearing, it finds that the proposed exportation or importation will not be consistent with the public interest. The Commission may by its order grant such application, in whole or in part, with such modification and upon such terms and conditions as the Commission may find necessary or appropriate, and may from time to time, after opportunity for hearing, and for good cause shown, make such supplemental order in the premises as it may find necessary or appropriate.
**(b) Free trade agreements** With respect to natural gas which is imported into the United States from a nation with which there is in effect a free trade agreement requiring national treatment for trade in natural gas, and with respect to liquefied natural gas—
(1) the importation of such natural gas shall be treated as a “first sale” within the meaning of [section 3301(21) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section3301/21&num=0&edition=prelim); and
(2) the Commission shall not, on the basis of national origin, treat any such imported natural gas on an unjust, unreasonable, unduly discriminatory, or preferential basis.
**(c) Expedited application and approval process** For purposes of subsection (a), the importation of the natural gas referred to in subsection (b), or the exportation of natural gas to a nation with which there is in effect a free trade agreement requiring national treatme
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The purposes of this chapter are (1) to provide for a means to assist in meeting the essential needs of the United States for fuels, in a manner which is consistent, to the fullest extent practicable, with existing national commitments to protect and improve the environment, and (2) to provide requirements for reports respecting energy resources.
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**(a) Findings** The Congress finds—
(1) that the predominant part of the Nation’s population is located in its rapidly expanding metropolitan and other urban areas, which generally cross the boundary lines of local jurisdictions and often extend into two or more States;
(2) that the growth in the amount and complexity of air pollution brought about by urbanization, industrial development, and the increasing use of motor vehicles, has resulted in mounting dangers to the public health and welfare, including injury to agricultural crops and livestock, damage to and the deterioration of property, and hazards to air and ground transportation;
(3) that air pollution prevention (that is, the reduction or elimination, through any measures, of the amount of pollutants produced or created at the source) and air pollution control at its source is the primary responsibility of States and local governments; and
(4) that Federal financial assistance and leadership is essential for the development of cooperative Federal, State, regional, and local programs to prevent and control air pollution.
**(b) Declaration** The purposes of this subchapter are—
(1) to protect and enhance the quality of the Nation’s air resources so as to promote the public health and welfare and the productive capacity of its population;
(2) to initiate and accelerate a national research and development program to achieve the prevention and control of air pollution;
(3) to provide technical and financial assistance to State and local governments in connection with the development and execution of their air pollution prevention and control programs; and
(4) to encourage and assist the development and operation of regional air pollution prevention and control programs.
**(c) Pollution prevention** A prim
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**(a) Issuance; hearing; enforcement orders; statement of grounds for application; findings**
(1) Upon application by the owner or operator of a primary nonferrous smelter, a primary nonferrous smelter order under subsection (b) may be issued—
(A) by the Administrator, after thirty days’ notice to the State, or
(B) by the State in which such source is located, but no such order issued by the State shall take effect until the Administrator determines that such order has been issued in accordance with the requirements of this chapter.
Not later than ninety days after submission by the State to the Administrator of notice of the issuance of a primary nonferrous smelter order under this section, the Administrator shall determine whether or not such order has been issued by the State in accordance with the requirements of this chapter. If the Administrator determines that such order has not been issued in accordance with such requirements, he shall conduct a hearing respecting the reasonably available control technology for primary nonferrous smelters.
(2)
(A) An order issued under this section to a primary nonferrous smelter shall be referred to as a “primary nonferrous smelter order”. No primary nonferrous smelter may receive both an enforcement order under section 7413(d) 11 See References in Text note below. of this title and a primary nonferrous smelter order under this section.
(B) Before any hearing conducted under this section, in the case of an application made by the owner or operator of a primary nonferrous smelter for a second order under this section, the applicant shall furnish the Administrator (or the State as the case may be) with a statement of the grounds on which such application is based (including all supporting documents and information
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### Statutory Notes
Section, act July 14, 1955, ch. 360, title I, § 119, as added June 22, 1974, Pub. L. 93–319, § 3, 88 Stat. 248, related to the authority of the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to deal with energy shortages. See [section 7413 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section7413&num=0&edition=prelim).
References to section 1857c–10 appearing in [section 792 of Title 15](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section792&num=0&edition=prelim), Commerce and Trade, shall be construed to refer to [section 7413(d) of Title 42](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section7413/d&num=0&edition=prelim), The Public Health and Welfare, see Compliance Orders note set out under [section 792 of Title 15](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title15-section792&num=0&edition=prelim).
#### Effective Date of Repeal
Repeal effective Aug. 7, 1977, see section 406 of Pub. L. 95–95, set out as an Effective Date of 1977 Amendment note under [section 7401 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section7401&num=0&edition=prelim).
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The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall report to Congress not later than January 31, 1975, on the implementation of sections 3 through 7 of the Energy Supply and Environmental Coordination Act of 1974.
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TITLE 15—COMMERCE AND TRADE
§§ 721, 722
amendment of subsec. (a) by inserting ‘‘or with an enti-
ty the Secretary determines is qualified to construct
and operate a liquefied natural gas project to transport
liquefied natural gas from Southcentral Alaska to West
Coast States,’’ before ‘‘to issue’’, was executed to par.
(1) of subsec. (a) to reflect the probable intent of Con-
gress.
Subsec. (b)(1). Pub.L. 108–199, § 146(2), as amended by
Pub. L. 108–447, § 114(1)–(3), inserted before period at end
‘‘, or after the Secretary certifies there exists a quali-
fied entity to construct and operate a liquefied natural
gas project to transport liquefied natural gas from
Southcentral Alaska to West Coast States. In no case
shall loan guarantees be issued for more than one
qualified project’’.
Subsec. (b)(4). Pub. L. 108–447, § 114(b), added par. (4).
Subsec. (c)(2). Pub. L. 108–199, § 146(3), as amended by
Pub. L. 108–447, § 114(1), (2), (4), which directed the
amendment of subsec. (a)(2) by inserting ‘‘, except that
the total amount of principal that may be guaranteed
for a qualified liquefied natural gas project may not ex-
ceed a principal amount in which the cost of loan guar-
antees, as defined by section 661a(5) of title 2, exceeds
$2,000,000,000’’ before period at end, was executed by
making the amendment to subsec. (c)(2), to reflect the
probable intent of Congress.
Subsec. (g)(4). Pub.L. 108–199, § 146(4), as amended by
Pub. L. 108–447, § 114(1), (2), (5), inserted ‘‘or system’’
after ‘‘gas transportation project’’ and ‘‘liquification
plants and liquefied natural gas tankers for transpor-
tation of liquefied natural gas from Southcentral Alas-
ka to the West Coast’’ after ‘‘including gas treatment
plants’’.
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