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[CITE: 42USC4344]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                CHAPTER 55--NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
 
             SUBCHAPTER II--COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
 
Sec. 4344. Duties and functions

    It shall be the duty and function of the Council--
        (1) to assist and advise the President in the preparation of the 
    Environmental Quality Report required by section 4341 of this title;
        (2) to gather timely and authoritative information concerning 
    the conditions and trends in the quality of the environment both 
    current and prospective, to analyze and interpret such information 
    for the purpose of determining whether such conditions and trends 
    are interfering, or are likely to interfere, with the achievement of 
    the policy set forth in subchapter I of this chapter, and to compile 
    and submit to the President studies relating to such conditions and 
    trends;
        (3) to review and appraise the various programs and activities 
    of the Federal Government in the light of the policy set forth in 
    subchapter I of this chapter for the purpose of determining the 
    extent to which such programs and activities are contributing to the 
    achievement of such policy, and to make recommendations to the 
    President with respect thereto;
        (4) to develop and recommend to the President national policies 
    to foster and promote the improvement of environmental quality to 
    meet the conservation, social, economic, health, and other 
    requirements and goals of the Nation;
        (5) to conduct investigations, studies, surveys, research, and 
    analyses relating to ecological systems and environmental quality;
        (6) to document and define changes in the natural environment, 
    including the plant and animal systems, and to accumulate necessary 
    data and other information for a continuing analysis of these 
    changes or trends and an interpretation of their underlying causes;
        (7) to report at least once each year to the President on the 
    state and condition of the environment; and
        (8) to make and furnish such studies, reports thereon, and 
    recommendations with respect to matters of policy and legislation as 
    the President may request.

(Pub. L. 91-190, title II, Sec. 204, Jan. 1, 1970, 83 Stat. 855.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    So much of functions of Council on Environmental Quality under par. 
(4) of this section as pertains to ecological systems transferred to 
Administrator of Environmental Protection Agency by Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 
1970, Sec. 2(a)(5), eff. Dec. 2, 1970, 35 F.R. 15623, 84 Stat. 2086, set 
out under section 4321 of this title.
