22 U.S.C. § 6615: Savings provisions

Summary

Existing orders, permits, rules, contracts, grants, licenses, and other official actions that were made or became effective before or on the date parts of this law take effect must keep working under their original terms. They stay in force until an authorized official, a court, or the law itself changes, ends, or replaces them. Any ongoing agency actions, like rulemakings, license or grant applications, hearings, and appeals that were pending when the transfers happen must continue. Orders from those proceedings still produce payments and can be appealed as if the law had not changed. Lawsuits already started do not stop because of the transfers. If an agency that was a party to a suit has its duties moved, the Secretary or the right Department official must be substituted as a party. The Secretary’s orders under the transferred duties can be reviewed by courts the same way they were before, and the same notice, hearing, and review rules still apply. Except for the party-substitution rule just described and the rule in section 6543(d), these protections apply.

Title 22, §6615

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(a)Continuing legal force and effect

All orders, determinations, rules, regulations, permits, agreements, grants, contracts, certificates, licenses, registrations, privileges, and other administrative actions—

(1)that have been issued, made, granted, or allowed to become effective by the President, any Federal agency or official thereof, or by a court of competent jurisdiction, in the performance of functions that are transferred under any subchapter of this chapter; and

(2)that are in effect as of the effective date of such subchapter, or were final before the effective date of such subchapter and are to become effective on or after the effective date of such subchapter,

shall continue in effect according to their terms until modified, terminated, superseded, set aside, or revoked in accordance with law by the President, the Secretary, or other authorized official, a court of competent jurisdiction, or by operation of law.

(b)Pending proceedings

(1)In general

The provisions of any subchapter of this chapter shall not affect any proceedings, including notices of proposed rulemaking, or any application for any license, permit, certificate, or financial assistance pending on the effective date of any subchapter of this chapter before any Federal agency, commission, or component thereof, functions of which are transferred by any subchapter of this chapter. Such proceedings and applications, to the extent that they relate to functions so transferred, shall be continued.

(2)Orders, appeals, payments

Orders shall be issued in such proceedings, appeals shall be taken therefrom, and payments shall be made pursuant to such orders, as if this chapter had not been enacted. Orders issued in any such proceedings shall continue in effect until modified, terminated, superseded, or revoked by the Secretary, by a court of competent jurisdiction, or by operation of law.

(3)Statutory construction

Nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to prohibit the discontinuance or modification of any such proceeding under the same terms and conditions and to the same extent that such proceeding could have been discontinued or modified if this chapter had not been enacted.

(4)Regulations

The Secretary is authorized to promulgate regulations providing for the orderly transfer of proceedings continued under this subsection to the Department.

(c)No effect on judicial or administrative proceedings

Except as provided in subsection (e) and section 6543(d) of this title—

(1)the provisions of this chapter shall not affect suits commenced prior to the effective dates of the respective subchapters of this chapter; and

(2)in all such suits, proceedings shall be had, appeals taken, and judgments rendered in the same manner and effect as if this chapter had not been enacted.

(d)Nonabatement of proceedings

No suit, action, or other proceeding commenced by or against any officer in the official capacity of such individual as an officer of any Federal agency, or any commission or component thereof, functions of which are transferred by any subchapter of this chapter, shall abate by reason of the enactment of this chapter. No cause of action by or against any Federal agency, or any commission or component thereof, functions of which are transferred by any subchapter of this chapter, or by or against any officer thereof in the official capacity of such officer shall abate by reason of the enactment of this chapter.

(e)Continuation of proceeding with substitution of parties

If, before the effective date of any subchapter of this chapter, any Federal agency, or officer thereof in the official capacity of such officer, is a party to a suit, and under this chapter any function of such department, agency, or officer is transferred to the Secretary or any other official of the Department, then effective on such date such suit shall be continued with the Secretary or other appropriate official of the Department substituted or added as a party.

(f)Reviewability of orders and actions under transferred functions

Orders and actions of the Secretary in the exercise of functions transferred under any subchapter of this chapter shall be subject to judicial review to the same extent and in the same manner as if such orders and actions had been by the Federal agency or office, or part thereof, exercising such functions immediately preceding their transfer. Any statutory requirements relating to notice, hearings, action upon the record, or administrative review that apply to any function transferred by any subchapter of this chapter shall apply to the exercise of such function by the Secretary.

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Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original “this subdivision”, meaning subdiv. A of div. G of Pub. L. 105–277, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–765, known as the Foreign Affairs Agencies Consolidation Act of 1998. For complete classification of this subdivision to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 6501 of this title and Tables. The

Effective Date

s of the respective subchapters of this chapter, referred to in subsecs. (a)(2), (b)(1), (c)(1), and (e), was in the original, references to the

Effective Date

s of the respective titles of this subdivision, meaning the

Effective Date

s of titles XI to XVI of subdiv. A of div. G of Pub. L. 105–277, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 765. Titles XI and XVI of subdiv. A of div. G of Pub. L. 105–277 are effective Oct. 21, 1998. For the

Effective Date

s of titles XII, XIII, XIV, and XV of subdiv. A of div. G of Pub. L. 105–277, see section 1201, 1301, 1401, and 1501, respectively, of div. G of Pub. L. 105–277, set out as notes under section 6511, 6531, 6561, and 6581, respectively, of this title.

§6615 Savings Provisions

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