---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 634a"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "634a"
heading: "Office of Advocacy within Small Business Administration; Chief Counsel for Advocacy"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/634a"
units:
  - "Chapter 14A — Aid to Small Business"
---

# §634a. Office of Advocacy within Small Business Administration; Chief Counsel for Advocacy


There is established within the Small Business [Administration](/usc/15/636e.md?p=1) an Office of Advocacy. The management of the Office shall be vested in a Chief Counsel for Advocacy who shall be appointed from civilian life by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 94–305, title II, § 201, June 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 668.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Small Business Act which comprises this chapter.