Environmental Quality Improvement Act

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Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1970

Long title	Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1970
Enacted by	the 91st United States Congress
Effective	April 3rd. 1970
Citations
Public law	Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 91–224
Statutes at Large	84 Stat. 91
Codification
U.S.C. sections created	42 U.S.C. 4371-4374

The Environmental Quality Improvement Act of 1970 is a United States environmental law which was passed to work in conjunction with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). One of the two major purposes of the Act was to authorize the creation of an Office of Environmental Quality to provide the professional and administrative staff needed for the Council on Environmental Quality.^[1] The second major purpose was to "assure that each Federal department and agency conducting or supporting public works activities which affect the environment shall implement the policies under existing law".^[2] To accomplish these purposes, the act gave more responsibilities to the chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality in his new role as director of the Office of Environmental Quality.^[3]