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[CITE: 42USC9655]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
  CHAPTER 103--COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE, COMPENSATION, AND 
                                LIABILITY
 
                SUBCHAPTER III--MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 9655. Legislative veto of rule or regulation


(a) Transmission to Congress upon promulgation or repromulgation of rule 
        or regulation; disapproval procedures

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, simultaneously with 
promulgation or repromulgation of any rule or regulation under authority 
of subchapter I of this chapter, the head of the department, agency, or 
instrumentality promulgating such rule or regulation shall transmit a 
copy thereof to the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House 
of Representatives. Except as provided in subsection (b) of this 
section, the rule or regulation shall not become effective, if--
        (1) 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 rule or 
    regulation promulgated by the                dealing with the matter 
    of                , which rule or regulation was transmitted to 
    Congress on            .'', the blank spaces therein being 
    appropriately filled; or
        (2) within sixty calendar days of continuous session of Congress 
    after the date of promulgation, one House of Congress adopts such a 
    concurrent resolution and transmits such resolution to the other 
    House, and such resolution is not disapproved by such other House 
    within thirty calendar days of continuous session of Congress after 
    such transmittal.

(b) Approval; effective dates

    If, at the end of sixty calendar days of continuous session of 
Congress after the date of promulgation of a rule or regulation, no 
committee of either House of Congress has reported or been discharged 
from further consideration of a concurrent resolution disapproving the 
rule or regulation and neither House has adopted such a resolution, the 
rule or 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, or either House has adopted 
such a resolution, the rule or regulation may go into effect not sooner 
than ninety calendar days of continuous session of Congress after such 
rule is prescribed unless disapproved as provided in subsection (a) of 
this section.

(c) Sessions of Congress as applicable

    For purposes of subsections (a) and (b) of this section--
        (1) continuity of session is broken only by an adjournment of 
    Congress 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 thirty, sixty, and ninety calendar days of 
    continuous session of Congress.

(d) Congressional inaction on, or rejection of, resolution of 
        disapproval

    Congressional inaction on, or rejection of, a resolution of 
disapproval shall not be deemed an expression of approval of such rule 
or regulation.

(Pub. L. 96-510, title III, Sec. 305, Dec. 11, 1980, 94 Stat. 2809.)
