§1571 Judicial review

Summary

Courts may review whether an agency followed sections 1532 and 1533(a)(1) and (2), but only in limited ways. Any review must be under section 706(1) of Title 5. If an agency did not prepare the required written statement or plan, a court can order the agency to prepare it. In other lawsuits about a rule, a missing or weak statement or plan cannot be used to stop, block, or cancel the rule. Information made under sections 1532 and 1533 that is part of the rulemaking record may be used in those other reviews. For petitions asking a court to force an agency to act, the rules of the other federal law control procedures like exhaustion, timing, and venue, except that if that law has no filing deadline shorter than 180 days, the deadline is 180 days after the agency issues the final rule. These limits began on October 1, 1995, and apply only to rules with a general notice of proposed rulemaking published on or after that date. Except as described above, reports, estimates, analyses, statements, descriptions, compliance decisions, and determinations made under this chapter cannot be reviewed by courts. Also, nothing in this chapter gives any person a legal right or benefit they can enforce in court or in agency proceedings.