---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 577"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "577"
heading: "Arbitrators"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/577"
units:
  - "Part I — The Agencies Generally"
  - "Chapter 5 — Administrative Procedure"
  - "Subchapter IV — Alternative Means of Dispute Resolution in the Administrative Process"
---

# §577. Arbitrators

- (a) The [parties](/usc/5/571.md?p=10) to an arbitration proceeding shall be entitled to participate in the selection of the arbitrator.
- (b) The arbitrator shall be a [neutral](/usc/5/571.md?p=9) who meets the criteria of [section 573 of this title](/usc/5/573.md).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 101–552, § 4(b), Nov. 15, 1990, 104 Stat. 2742, § 587; renumbered § 577 and amended Pub. L. 102–354, § 3(b)(2), (3), Aug. 26, 1992, 106 Stat. 944, 945.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1992—Pub. L. 102–354, § 3(b)(2), renumbered section 587 of this title as this section.

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 102–354, § 3(b)(3), substituted “section 573” for “section 583”.