---
kind: "section"
citation: "2 U.S.C. § 1533"
title: "2"
title_heading: "The Congress"
number: "1533"
heading: "Small government agency plan"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/2/1533"
units:
  - "Chapter 25 — Unfunded Mandates Reform"
  - "Subchapter II — Regulatory Accountability and Reform"
---

# §1533. Small government agency plan

- (a) **Effects on small governments—** Before establishing any regulatory requirements that might significantly or uniquely affect small governments, agencies shall have developed a plan under which the agency shall—
  - (1) provide notice of the requirements to potentially affected small governments, if any;
  - (2) enable officials of affected small governments to provide meaningful and timely input in the development of regulatory proposals containing significant Federal intergovernmental mandates; and
  - (3) inform, educate, and advise small governments on compliance with the requirements.
- (b) **Authorization of appropriations—** There are authorized to be appropriated to each agency to carry out the provisions of this section and for no other purpose, such sums as are necessary.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 104–4, title II, § 203, Mar. 22, 1995, 109 Stat. 65.)