---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 1366"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "1366"
heading: "Appearance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/1366"
units:
  - "Chapter 26 — Water Pollution Prevention and Control"
  - "Subchapter V — General Provisions"
---

# §1366. Appearance


The Administrator shall request the Attorney General to appear and represent the United States in any civil or criminal action instituted under this chapter to which the Administrator is a party. Unless the Attorney General notifies the Administrator within a reasonable time, that he will appear in a civil action, attorneys who are officers or employees of the Environmental Protection Agency shall appear and represent the United States in such action.


## Source credit

(June 30, 1948, ch. 758, title V, § 506, as added Pub. L. 92–500, § 2, Oct. 18, 1972, 86 Stat. 889.)