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# 42 U.S.C. § 7301 - Environmental impact statements

## Text

The transfer of functions under subchapters III and IV of this chapter shall not affect the validity of any draft environmental impact statement published before October 1, 1977.

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