Title 22Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73not60

§9686 Savings Provisions

Title 22 › Chapter 103— BETTER UTILIZATION OF INVESTMENTS LEADING TO DEVELOPMENT › Subchapter VI— TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS › § 9686

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

When an agency is moved into the Corporation under section 9683, finished official actions and any work already in progress keep going as before. Finished actions—like orders, rules, contracts, permits, licenses, grants, policies, and personnel actions—stay valid until a U.S. official, a court, or the law changes them. Pending matters—such as rulemakings, license or grant applications, hearings, orders, appeals, and payments—also keep going and are handled the same way as if the move had not happened. Ongoing court cases continue unchanged, with the same hearings, appeals, and judgments. Laws, executive orders, rules, and delegations made before the transfer or before October 5, 2018 that name the old agency are treated as naming the Corporation and its staff. Any legal reporting duties that specifically named the agency before October 5, 2018 still apply after the transfer. The Corporation, working with the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, may keep prior employment rules from before October 5, 2018. Moving employees does not change their pay or job terms unless this chapter allows it.

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Title 22, §9686

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(a)(1)Completed administrative actions of an agency shall not be affected by the enactment of this Act or the transfer of such agency to the Corporation under section 9683 of this title, but shall continue in effect according to their terms until amended, modified, superseded, terminated, set aside, or revoked in accordance with law by an officer of the United States or a court of competent jurisdiction, or by operation of law.
(2)In this subsection, the term “completed administrative action” includes orders, determinations, rules, regulations, personnel actions, permits, agreements, grants, contracts, certificates, policies, licenses, registrations, and privileges.
(b)(1)Pending proceedings in an agency, including notices of proposed rulemaking, and applications for licenses, permits, certificates, grants, and financial assistance, shall continue notwithstanding the enactment of this Act or the transfer of the agency to the Corporation, unless discontinued or modified under the same terms and conditions and to the same extent that such discontinuance could have occurred if such enactment or transfer had not occurred.
(2)Orders issued in proceedings described in paragraph (1), and appeals therefrom, and payments made pursuant to such orders, shall issue in the same manner and on the same terms as if this chapter had not been enacted or the agency had not been transferred, and any such orders shall continue in effect until amended, modified, superseded, terminated, set aside, or revoked by an officer of the United States or a court of competent jurisdiction, or by operation of law.
(c)Pending civil actions shall continue notwithstanding the enactment of this Act or the transfer of an agency to the Corporation, and in such civil actions, proceedings shall be had, appeals taken, and judgments rendered and enforced in the same manner and with the same effect as if such enactment or transfer had not occurred.
(d)References relating to an agency that is transferred to the Corporation under section 9683 of this title in statutes, Executive orders, rules, regulations, directives, or delegations of authority that precede such transfer or October 5, 2018, shall be deemed to refer, as appropriate, to the Corporation, to its officers, employees, or agents, or to its corresponding organizational units or functions. Statutory reporting requirements that applied in relation to such an agency immediately before the effective date of this chapter shall continue to apply following such transfer if they refer to the agency by name.
(e)(1)The Corporation may, in regulations prescribed jointly with the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, adopt the rules, procedures, terms, and conditions, established by statute, rule, or regulation before October 5, 2018, relating to employment in any agency transferred to the Corporation under section 9683 of this title.
(2)Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, or under authority granted by this chapter, the transfer pursuant to this subchapter of personnel shall not alter the terms and conditions of employment, including compensation, of any employee so transferred.
(f)Any statutory reporting requirement that applied to an agency transferred to the Corporation under this subchapter immediately before October 5, 2018, shall continue to apply following that transfer if the statutory requirement refers to the agency by name.

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The enactment of this Act, referred to in subsecs. (a)(1), (b)(1), and (c), means the enactment of Pub. L. 115–254, Oct. 5, 2018, 132 Stat. 3186, known as the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see

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note set out under section 40101 of Title 49, Transportation, and Tables. This chapter, referred to in subsecs. (b)(2), (d), and (e)(2), was in the original “this division”, meaning division F of Pub. L. 115–254, Oct. 5, 2018, 132 Stat. 3485, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of division F to the Code, see

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note set out under section 9601 of this title and Tables. The

Effective Date

of this chapter, referred to in subsec. (d), probably means the date of enactment of Pub. L. 115–254, which enacted this chapter and which was approved Oct. 5, 2018. This subchapter, referred to in subsecs. (e)(2) and (f), was in the original “this title”, meaning title VI (§§ 1461–1470) of div. F of Pub. L. 115–254, Oct. 5, 2018, 132 Stat. 3510, which is classified principally to this subchapter and which repealed title IV of chapter 2 of part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2191 et seq.), other than subsections (g), (l), (m), and (n) of section 237 thereof (22 U.S.C. 2197(g), (l), (m), (n)), among other

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. For complete classification of title VI to the Code, see Tables.

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 9686

Title 22Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

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