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[CITE: 42USC7402]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
            CHAPTER 85--AIR POLLUTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL
 
                  SUBCHAPTER I--PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES
 
              Part A--Air Quality and Emission Limitations
 
Sec. 7402. Cooperative activities


(a) Interstate cooperation; uniform State laws; State compacts

    The Administrator shall encourage cooperative activities by the 
States and local governments for the prevention and control of air 
pollution; encourage the enactment of improved and, so far as 
practicable in the light of varying conditions and needs, uniform State 
and local laws relating to the prevention and control of air pollution; 
and encourage the making of agreements and compacts between States for 
the prevention and control of air pollution.

(b) Federal cooperation

    The Administrator shall cooperate with and encourage cooperative 
activities by all Federal departments and agencies having functions 
relating to the prevention and control of air pollution, so as to assure 
the utilization in the Federal air pollution control program of all 
appropriate and available facilities and resources within the Federal 
Government.

(c) Consent of Congress to compacts

    The consent of the Congress is hereby given to two or more States to 
negotiate and enter into agreements or compacts, not in conflict with 
any law or treaty of the United States, for (1) cooperative effort and 
mutual assistance for the prevention and control of air pollution and 
the enforcement of their respective laws relating thereto, and (2) the 
establishment of such agencies, joint or otherwise, as they may deem 
desirable for making effective such agreements or compacts. No such 
agreement or compact shall be binding or obligatory upon any State a 
party thereto unless and until it has been approved by Congress. It is 
the intent of Congress that no agreement or compact entered into between 
States after November 21, 1967, which relates to the control and 
abatement of air pollution in an air quality control region, shall 
provide for participation by a State which is not included (in whole or 
in part) in such air quality control region.

(July 14, 1955, ch. 360, title I, Sec. 102, formerly Sec. 2, as added 
Pub. L. 88-206, Sec. 1, Dec. 17, 1963, 77 Stat. 393; renumbered 
Sec. 102, Pub. L. 89-272, title I, Sec. 101(3), Oct. 20, 1965, 79 Stat. 
992; amended Pub. L. 90-148, Sec. 2, Nov. 21, 1967, 81 Stat. 485; Pub. 
L. 91-604, Sec. 15(c)(2), Dec. 31, 1970, 84 Stat. 1713.)

                          Codification

    Section was formerly classified to section 1857a of this title.


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in the first clause of subsec. (a) of 
this section were contained in subsec. (b)(1) of a prior section 1857a, 
of this title, act July 14, 1955, ch. 360, Sec. 2, 69 Stat. 322, prior 
to the general amendment of this chapter by Pub. L. 88-206.


                               Amendments

    1970--Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 91-604 substituted 
``Administrator'' for ``Secretary'' wherever appearing.
    1967--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 90-148 inserted declaration that it is 
the intent of Congress that no agreement or compact entered into between 
States after the date of enactment of the Air Quality Act of 1967, which 
for purposes of codification was changed to November 21, 1967, the date 
of approval of such Act, relating to the control and abatement of air 
pollution in an air quality control region, shall provide for 
participation by a State which is not included (in whole or in part) in 
such air quality control region.
