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[CITE: 5USC612]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                     PART I--THE AGENCIES GENERALLY
 
             CHAPTER 6--THE ANALYSIS OF REGULATORY FUNCTIONS
 
Sec. 612. Reports and intervention rights

    (a) The Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business 
Administration shall monitor agency compliance with this chapter and 
shall report at least annually thereon to the President and to the 
Committees on the Judiciary and Small Business of the Senate and House 
of Representatives.
    (b) The Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business 
Administration is authorized to appear as amicus curiae in any action 
brought in a court of the United States to review a rule. In any such 
action, the Chief Counsel is authorized to present his or her views with 
respect to compliance with this chapter, the adequacy of the rulemaking 
record with respect to small entities and the effect of the rule on 
small entities.
    (c) A court of the United States shall grant the application of the 
Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration to 
appear in any such action for the purposes described in subsection (b).

(Added Pub. L. 96-354, Sec. 3(a), Sept. 19, 1980, 94 Stat. 1170; amended 
Pub. L. 104-121, title II, Sec. 243(b), Mar. 29, 1996, 110 Stat. 866.)


                               Amendments

    1996--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 104-121, Sec. 243(b)(1), which directed 
substitution of ``the Committees on the Judiciary and Small Business of 
the Senate and House of Representatives'' for ``the committees on the 
Judiciary of the Senate and the House of Representatives, the Select 
Committee on Small Business of the Senate, and the Committee on Small 
Business of the House of Representatives'', was executed by making the 
substitution for ``the Committees on the Judiciary of the Senate and 
House of Representatives, the Select Committee on Small Business of the 
Senate, and the Committee on Small Business of the House of 
Representatives'' to reflect the probable intent of Congress.
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 104-121, Sec. 243(b)(2), substituted ``his or 
her views with respect to compliance with this chapter, the adequacy of 
the rulemaking record with respect to small entities and the'' for ``his 
views with respect to the''.


                    Effective Date of 1996 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 104-121 effective on expiration of 90 days 
after Mar. 29, 1996, but inapplicable to interpretative rules for which 
a notice of proposed rulemaking was published prior to Mar. 29, 1996, 
see section 245 of Pub. L. 104-121, set out as a note under section 601 
of this title.
