---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 9125"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "9125"
heading: "Judicial review"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/9125"
units:
  - "Chapter 99 — Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion"
  - "Subchapter I — Regulation of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Facilities and Plantships"
---

# §9125. Judicial review


Any [person](/usc/42/9102.md?p=14) suffering legal wrong, or who is adversely affected or aggrieved by the [Administrator](/usc/42/9102.md?p=2)’s decision to issue, transfer, modify, renew, suspend, or terminate a license may, not later than 60 days after such decision is made, seek judicial review of such decision in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. A [person](/usc/42/9102.md?p=14) shall be deemed to be aggrieved by the [Administrator](/usc/42/9102.md?p=2)’s decision within the meaning of this chapter if he—

- (1) has participated in the administrative proceedings before the [Administrator](/usc/42/9102.md?p=2) (or if he did not so participate, he can show that his failure to do so was caused by the [Administrator](/usc/42/9102.md?p=2)’s failure to provide the required notice); and
- (2) is adversely affected by the [Administrator](/usc/42/9102.md?p=2)’s action.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–320, title I, § 115, Aug. 3, 1980, 94 Stat. 990.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in introductory provisions, was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 96–320, Aug. 3, 1980, 94 Stat. 974, known as the Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Act of 1980, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 9101 of this title and Tables.