---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 606"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "606"
heading: "Effect on other law"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/606"
units:
  - "Part I — The Agencies Generally"
  - "Chapter 6 — The Analysis of Regulatory Functions"
---

# §606. Effect on other law


The requirements of sections [603](/usc/5/603.md) and [604](/usc/5/604.md) of this title do not alter in any manner standards otherwise applicable by law to [agency](/usc/5/601.md?p=1) action.


## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 96–354, § 3(a), Sept. 19, 1980, 94 Stat. 1168.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Jan. 1, 1981, see section 4 of Pub. L. 96–354, set out as a note under section 601 of this title.