Environmental Quality Corps Act

Environmental Quality Corps Act - Establishes the Environmental Quality Corps as an independent agency within the executive branch. Provides that it shall be the duty of the Corps to provide the manpower needed in projects designed to better the environmental quality for all Americans.

Provides that applicants shall be eligible for enlistment in the Corps if they are unmarried American citizens, aged eithteen through twenty-six. Provides that the Corps shall be composed of volunteers to be provided with room and board and a modest living allowance by the Administrator of the Corps. Provides that the Administrator shall arrange for transportation, lodging, subsistence, equipment, training, and other services which may be needed by the Corps volunteers in fulfilling their duties.

Authorizes the Administrator to enter into arrangements with Federal, State, and local governmental agencies and Corps volunteers under the supervision of the Corps, on projects authorized by this Act.

Provides that each such agency which desires to receive the services of volunteers shall submit annually to the Administrator a detailed plan which shall include: (1) an outline of the proposed projects and lands for which such services are desired; (2) a description of the funds, equipment, and facilities which are available for each such project; and (3) the number of volunteers requested for, studies of the environmental impact of, estimates of the total cost of, and estimates of the economic effect of each such project.

Establishes in the Corps a Board of Advisers to: (1) establish policies for the recruitment of applicants; (2) establish project priorities and review Federal, State, and local plans submitted under this Act; (3) assist the Administrator in the coordination of the various departments and agencies represented by its members with each other, in order to avoid duplication of effort; and (4) advise and assist the Administrator with respect to the provision of such technical and logistical support as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.

Authorizes to be appropriated for fiscal year 1973 and 1974 such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.