---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 1683"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "1683"
heading: "Judicial review"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/1683"
units:
  - "Chapter 38 — Discrimination Based on Sex or Blindness"
---

# §1683. Judicial review


Any [department](/usc/20/1221.md?p=c-3) or agency action taken pursuant to [section 1682 of this title](/usc/20/1682.md) shall be subject to such judicial review as may otherwise be provided by law for similar action taken by such [department](/usc/20/1221.md?p=c-3) or agency on other grounds. In the case of action, not otherwise subject to judicial review, terminating or refusing to grant or to continue financial assistance upon a finding of failure to comply with any requirement imposed pursuant to [section 1682 of this title](/usc/20/1682.md), any person aggrieved (including any State or political subdivision thereof and any agency of either) may obtain judicial review of such action in accordance with [chapter 7](/usc/5/chptI/ch7.md) of title 5, and such action shall not be deemed committed to unreviewable agency discretion within the meaning of [section 701](/usc/20/701.md) of that title.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 92–318, title IX, § 903, June 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 374.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

“Section 1682 of this title”, where first appearing, substituted in text for “section 1002” as conforming to intent of Congress as Pub. L. 92–318 was enacted without any section 1002 and subsequent text refers to “section 902”, which is classified to section 1682 of this title.