Title 41Public ContractsRelease 119-73

§1504 Effect on other standards and regulations

Title 41 › Subtitle Subtitle I— - Federal Procurement Policy › Chapter CHAPTER 15— - COST ACCOUNTING STANDARDS › § 1504

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Keep existing cost accounting standards, waivers, and rules made by the Cost Accounting Standards Board under section 719 of the Defense Production Act in force until the Board changes or removes them under this chapter. Treat those old rules the same as if the Board had made them under this chapter. The Administrator must use the powers in sections 1121, 1122(a)–(c)(1), 1125, 1126, 1130, 1131, and 2305 to cancel or block any agency rule that conflicts and take other allowed actions. Costs covered by these cost accounting standards cannot be governed by a different agency rule that measures, assigns, or allocates those costs differently.

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Title 41, §1504

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(a)All cost accounting standards, waivers, exemptions, interpretations, modifications, rules, and regulations prescribed by the Cost Accounting Standards Board under section 719 of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. App. 2168)— 11 See References in Text note below.
(1)remain in effect until amended, superseded, or rescinded by the Board under this chapter; and
(2)are subject to the provisions of this division in the same manner as if prescribed by the Board under this division.
(b)To ensure that a regulation or proposed regulation of an executive agency is not inconsistent with a cost accounting standard prescribed or amended under this chapter, the Administrator, under the authority in section 1121, 1122(a) to (c)(1), 1125, 1126, 1130, 1131, and 2305 of this title, shall rescind or deny the promulgation of the inconsistent regulation or proposed regulation and take other appropriate action authorized under section 1121, 1122(a) to (c)(1), 1125, 1126, 1130, 1131, and 2305.
(c)Costs that are the subject of cost accounting standards prescribed under this chapter are not subject to regulations established by another executive agency that differ from those standards with respect to the measurement, assignment, and allocation of those costs.

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Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 1504(a)41:422(j)(1), (2).Pub. L. 93–400, § 26(j), as added Pub. L. 100–679, § 5(a), Nov. 17, 1988, 102 Stat. 4062. 1504(b)41:422(j)(3). 1504(c)41:422(j)(4).

Editorial Notes

References in Text

section 719 of the Defense Production Act of 1950, referred to in subsec. (a), is section 719 of act Sept. 8, 1950, ch. 932, title VII, as added Pub. L. 91–379, title I, § 103, Aug. 15, 1970, 84 Stat. 796, which was classified to section 2168 of the former Appendix to Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 100–679, § 5(b), Nov. 17, 1988, 102 Stat. 4063.

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41 U.S.C. § 1504

Title 41Public Contracts

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73