16 U.S.C. § 470w-6 : US Code - Section 470W-6: Effective date of regulations

Search 16 U.S.C. § 470w-6 : US Code - Section 470W-6: Effective date of regulations

(a) Effective date of final regulations
No final regulation of the Secretary shall become effective prior
to the expiration of thirty calendar days after it is published in
the Federal Register during which either or both Houses of Congress
are in session.
(b) Disapproval of regulation by resolution of Congress
The regulation shall not become effective if, within ninety
calendar days of continuous session of Congress after the date of
promulgation, both Houses of Congress adopt a concurrent
resolution, the matter after the resolving clause of which is as
follows: "That Congress disapproves the regulation promulgated by
the Secretary dealing with the matter of , which regulation
was transmitted to Congress on ," the blank spaces therein
being appropriately filled.
(c) Failure of Congress to adopt resolution of disapproval of
regulation
If at the end of sixty calendar days of continuous session of
Congress after the date of promulgation of a regulation, no
committee of either House of Congress has reported or been
discharged from further consideration of a concurrent resolution
disapproving the regulation, and neither House has adopted such a
resolution, the regulation may go into effect immediately. If,
within such sixty calendar days, such a committee has reported or
been discharged from further consideration of such a resolution,
the regulation may go into effect not sooner than ninety calendar
days of continuous session of Congress after its promulgation
unless disapproved as provided for.
(d) Sessions of Congress
For the purposes of this section -
(1) continuity of session is broken only by an adjournment sine
die; and
(2) the days on which either House is not in session because of
an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain are
excluded in the computation of sixty and ninety calendar days of
continuous session of Congress.
(e) Congressional inaction or rejection of resolution of
disapproval not deemed approval of regulation
Congressional inaction on or rejection of a resolution of
disapproval shall not be deemed an expression of approval of such
regulation.